I have bought my first ever sweet potato

[dilute micro]

If you bake the living hell out of it the sugars and juices will pool at the bottom and make a caramel syrup.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I am going to roast the fucker

 

[rutabowa]

i think because they are so sweet i like to do them half and half with normal potatoes usually but that is just me

 

[moonsi til]

I am going to roast the fucker

This is simply lush. Just chuck it in the oven for about 40 mins you will not be disappointed. I like mine with grilled halloumi on top but anyway is lovely.

 

[Boycey]

go crazy like Americans and have them sweet with a savoury dish (candied sweet potatoes!)

i went to a thanksgiving meal once, it was delicious but very confusing.

sweet 'taters are one of my favourite things evar! baked, roast or fried- wedges with sweet chilli and sour cream is nomtastic.

 

[danny la rouge]

I've read that the first potatoes brought back from the New World were in fact sweet potatoes. Not sure how much truth there is in that.

 

[Boycey]

i have also heard that

also that the first corn was blue... don't know how much truth there is in that.

 

[DotCommunist]

sweet potato actually makes me gag

I despise all root veg that masquerades as honest pome de terre

 

[pigtails]

Served topped with melted manchego, it works well as a tapas dish, or on its own.

*drool*

 

[fogbat]

Gratin dauphinoise, made with normal potatoes, sweet potatoes and parsnips, is gorgeous.

 

[AllStarMe]

Roast it with some regular potatoes, red onions and carrots (add plenty of rock salt and ground black pepper); towards the end break in some feta cheese and if you like hotness some fresh chopped red chillies.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

oh my word that sounds delicious

 

[Cloo]

Or roast with peppers, red-skinned potato (desiree, for example), whole cloves of garlic, wedges of red onion and halloumi on top.

 

[butterfly child]

sweet potato actually makes me gag

I despise all root veg that masquerades as honest pome de terre

I fucking knew you was a wrong'un

I would like to substitute all our spuds for sweet potatoes, but my husband won't have it.

It took him over a year to get to grips with the fact that roasted sweet potatoes do not go crispy the same way normal spuds do

 

[Strumpet]

Roast it with some regular potatoes, red onions and carrots (add plenty of rock salt and ground black pepper); towards the end break in some feta cheese and if you like hotness some fresh chopped red chillies.Cheers - Louis MacNeice

*drooooooooooooooooooooool*

Why, what have you got against mash potato?

 

[trabuquera]

cut it into slices about the thickness of a pond coin, strew it generously with small flecks of butter and dark brown sugar (molasses or whatnot sugar, not demerara), or alternatively a bit of maple syrup instead, tiny bit of salt if the butter wasn't salted, bit of cinnamon on top, bake gently till it's browned on top and cooked through.

(it's a pudding, so you could have it with icecream or greek yoghurt if you wanted.... however like most of the wronguns on here ... I find it's improved by a bit of black pepper even if you've made it pretty sweet.)

or the everpopular soup: fry some onions in butter, adding a bit of chopped red chili or roasted red pepper if you fancy, throw in cubed sweet potato, add stock or water, boil till soft, whizz it in a blender. Then add cream/yoghurt/parsley or anything else you have.

sweet potato is sweet.

 

[Maggot]

I am going to roast the fucker

How was it?

 

[Clair De Lune]

How was it?

It was too soft my fault though, I reckon I shoulda chucked it in raw along with the carrots and parsnips but I par boiled it a bit first along with the rest of the spuds. Will try again soon

 

[middle C]

bake and melt margarine on top... yum yum...

 

[dilute micro]

bake and melt margarine on top... yum yum...

Is yum yum good better than nom nom good? I say bake too. Bake it till it whistles. I'm serious that caramel at the bottom is awesome.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Bake it and have it with lots of butter.

This. Sweet potato seems to work with various spices, so you might consider sprinkling stuff like cumin, cinammon or cayenne on top.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Either baked just as it is, but rinse the skin first.

Or cube and roast with cumin seeds.