Sweet potato recipes, ideas & questions

Penelope_Penguin

Frugal wrote: »

OK I didn't see the last sweet potato when I made soup this week so I now have one lonely sweet potato with no mealmeal plan to match him to!

I am doing our next week of meal plans so.....

What would you do with it? (there are 3 of us but 2 have little bites )

Do you ever eat alone? I'd bake it and eat with butter and cheese for a lunch at work

There are more recipes here; I'll mereg this later to keep suggestions together.

Frugalista

How about these -

Sweet Potato Patties

Cut 7oz of regular potato and 7oz of sweet potato into chunks and boil until tender.

Drain and allow to steam dry for a couple of minutes before mashing.

In a small pan, heat 1 tsp of olive oil and gently saut! 1 finely chopped garlic clove and 1 diced shallot for 2 mins (I used lazy garlic and an ordinary cooking onion).

Add ½ tsp cumin seeds and 1 tsp khalonji (black onion/nigella) seeds and cook for 1-2 mins more.

Mix into the mashed potato - Season - then shape into 4 patties and coat in a little flour.

Fry in a little olive oil for 2-3 minutes on both sides until golden.

HTH

cestlavie

waitrose had a heavenly sp rosti a few years back
http://www.waitrose.com/recipes/index.aspx?recipeuid=c954e094-e449-47af-bdb8-832d08c4838a
yum!

LittleLauz

I'm making sweet potato and chorizo soup which requires 800g of sweet potatoes. However my weight judgement must be rubbish as I have purchased three times that amount!! (my lidl don't have scales) so what can I do with the remainder?
I can't use them as baking potatoes as the two potatoes are huge and I wouldn't attempt to eat a whole one!!
So some ideas please, as I hate to throw away perfectly good food!!

meanmarie

I often peel and roast sweet potatoes as part of a vegetable roast for dinner, they are lovely

Marie

adelight

You can cut them in half and the other bit will keep in the fridge fine (for over a week in my experience). They make excellent wedges, a spicy gratin or mash topping for a spicy shepherd's pie.
This is a really good recipe for carribean sweet potato cakes: http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/savory-caribbean-inspired-sweet-potato-cakes/Detail.aspx

mindy45

Chips!

Serve with a sweet chilli dip (mix mayo with sweet chilli sauce)

sarahsarah

It's nice in a vegetable stew with a bit of spinach and a few tablespoons of peanut butter, I had an exact recipe once and I remember it was gorgeous, not made it for ages though! Maybe if you google for moroccan sweet potato stew you might find something!

bexster1975

Hi I saw a great recipe for sweet potato mash on Jamie's 30 min meals

I have tried it and its really good

Video is on youtube

Canucklehead

A favourite dessert across the pond....sweet potato pie (pumpkin works too).;)

Canucklehead