sweet potatoes: how to cook

[SheilaNaGig]

My sweet potato recipe:

Cut them lengthways into wedges.

In a bowl, mix together equal measures of tomatoes purée, soy sauce (I use Tamari), olive oil. Add finely chopped garlic, rough sea salt and mix well.

Move the sweet potato wedges around in the bowl til they are well covered on all sides.

Lay them out in a baking tray, skin sides down. Add over any remaining mix and cook in a very hot oven for 10 minutes before turning the heat down to medium. Turn them over and shuffle them about a couple of times. Serve with rocket or watercress and a good simple lemon and oil dressing.

 

[Sea Star]

I buy pre cut sweet potato chips and cook them in olive oil in the oven, but I'm guessing that this could be approximated on a hob.

or 5 minutes in a microwave with topping of choice added.

 

[kittyP]

I think the key to getting them crispy is a very hot oven and oil very hot before you tip them in. Just like with roast potatoes.
I would cut and par boil (time depending on how thick you have cut them) and get the oven up to gas mark 7 at least with the oil in the pan in it.
Then, while you are faffing about with the pan and the par boiled chips, put the pan with oil in on the hobs (on) to keep it hot enough.
Tip chips in and in over super quick.
Toss a couple of times through out cooking.

 

[Riklet]

Mashed
Baked
In pasta sauces
In lasagna
Shalllow fried in slices
Oven wedges
Chopped up and boiled with rice
Grated and roti-style?

They always cook quicker than potatoes and don't need as much heat tbh

 

[bi0boy]

wrap in foil and bake
or just peel chop and boil

 

[Chilli.s]

Peel and dice into 2cm cubes. Coat in a little oil. Bake in oven 20 mins on gas 6. Remove, stir/flip and cover in grated blue cheese. Back in oven for another 10 or so.

 

[SovietArmy]

I had sweet potatoes with macaroni pasta with cheese. Lovely

 

[Ergo Proxy]

Did some last night peeled, cut into chips, then shallow fried in olive oil and goose fat with a couple of whole garlic cloves. 30 seconds before removing from the pan chucked in a load of salt and paprika to coat. Best cold chicken n bacon pie with fresh coleslaw accomplishment I've tried so far!

Will be doing 50/50 mash with normal potato, lubricated with loads of olive oil, butter and the rendered fat from the pork chops I'll be cooking to serve it with later.

Roast em bake em grill em fry em deep fry em thin or thick cut spiced or not spiced sweat potatoes loveliness needs no punctuation

 

[UnderOpenSky]

My sweet potato recipe:

Cut them lengthways into wedges.

In a bowl, mix together equal measures of tomatoes purée, soy sauce (I use Tamari), olive oil. Add finely chopped garlic, rough sea salt and mix well.

Move the sweet potato wedges around in the bowl til they are well covered on all sides.

Lay them out in a baking tray, skin sides down. Add over any remaining mix and cook in a very hot oven for 10 minutes before turning the heat down to medium. Turn them over and shuffle them about a couple of times. Serve with rocket or watercress and a good simple lemon and oil dressing.

This sounds great. I'm going to try it tonight to go with ribs.

How long do you cook them for after you've turned the heat down?

 

[bluescreen]

Nigel Slater’s baked sweet potato with harissa and soured cream recipe
Very nice, very simple, will do it again.

I read somewhere about sweet potato nachos. I've lost the recipe, but found this one, which I'll give a try.
Sweet Potato Nachos | Paleo Leap

 

[pinkmonkey]

I think the key to getting them crispy is a very hot oven and oil very hot before you tip them in. Just like with roast potatoes.
I would cut and par boil (time depending on how thick you have cut them) and get the oven up to gas mark 7 at least with the oil in the pan in it.
Then, while you are faffing about with the pan and the par boiled chips, put the pan with oil in on the hobs (on) to keep it hot enough.
Tip chips in and in over super quick.
Toss a couple of times through out cooking.

the key to getting them crispy is to toss them in cornflower before you bake or fry them, this method also works well with some of the frozen sweet potato chips, which are a bit soggy if you don't do this.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I like them mashed with black pepper and extra virgin olive oil. And curried, they keep a long time, I often make a goan type fish curry with cheap white frozen fish, sweet potato and spinach.

 

[bluescreen]

the key to getting them crispy is to toss them in cornflower before you bake or fry them, this method also works well with some of the frozen sweet potato chips, which are a bit soggy if you don't do this.

Don't some people use polenta for the same purpose?

 

[pinkmonkey]

Don't some people use polenta for the same purpose?

I don't know, but I did a lot of Googling to try to figure out why my sweet potato fries weren't anything like the ones I got when I ate out, general consensus was cornstarch is the best method to use, most people say to put them in a ziplock bag with it and give it a shake. I keep some cornstarch in a plastic flour dredge and shake some over before they go in the oven.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

My sweet potato recipe:

Cut them lengthways into wedges.

In a bowl, mix together equal measures of tomatoes purée, soy sauce (I use Tamari), olive oil. Add finely chopped garlic, rough sea salt and mix well.

Move the sweet potato wedges around in the bowl til they are well covered on all sides.

Lay them out in a baking tray, skin sides down. Add over any remaining mix and cook in a very hot oven for 10 minutes before turning the heat down to medium. Turn them over and shuffle them about a couple of times. Serve with rocket or watercress and a good simple lemon and oil dressing.

I've just had another look at this. I don't know why I said to put salt in, when I use soy sauce in the slather-mix.

Don't add salt! Just don't!




ETA I couldn't edit the actual post because time limit.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Don't bother peeling, scrub them, chop into shunks, maybe 2cm-ish cubed, put in a baking dish, drizzle olive oil over them, sprinkle with cumin seeds. Bake till done. Very more-ish.

 

[stuff_it]

Roasted or fried, with slight sprinkling of jerk seasoning.