sweet potatoes

cheerfulness4

morganb wrote: »

Also have a fantastic recipe for lasagne made with sweet potato instead of pasta; if you want I can type it up ... but am supposed to be planning lessons at hte moment

could we have the soup and lasagne recipe please? After you've done your lesson plans, naturally.

morganb

No probs, will sneak in some recipe typing time tomorrow between marking work and even more lesson planning!

Topher

Squash & Sweet Potato Soup.
Preparation time: 20 mins,
Cooking time 35 mins,
100 cals, 2g fat and 19g carbohydrate per serving
Serves 8

1 tbsp olive oil
1 Large onion finely chopped,
2 medium red chillies deseeded and chopped,
2 level tsp coriander seeds, crushed,
1 butternut squash, around 750g (1lb 10 oz) peeled (potato peeler) and roughly chopped
( I remove the seeds at this stage)
2 medium sweet potatoes peeled and roughly chopped
2 medium tomatoes skinned & diced ( an amount of tinned does just as well)
1.7 litres (3 pints) hot vegetable stock (from cubes is fine)

1) Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onion until soft – around 10 mins. Add the chilli and coriander seeds to the pan and cook for 1-2 mins.
2) Add the squash, potatoes and tomatoes and cook for 5 mins. Add the hot stock, then cover and bring to the boil. Simmer gently for about 15 mins, or until the vegetables are soft.
3) Whiz the soup in batches in a blender until smooth. Reheat to serve.

To Freeze: Cool after step three and put in a freezerproof container. Seal and freeze for up to three months.

To serve: Defrost for 4 hrs at cool room temperature. Put in a pan and bring to the boil. Simmer for 10 mins, or hot right through.


I don’t always bother with the chillis but like to put powdered chilli in later.
As I said the tomatoes don’t need to be fresh, but go easy on quantities of tinned as it’s a nice thick soup.
I have served it outdoors in mugs and cheese straws (cheese pastry) go very well to dip in.

There| only 12 days late.
Topher

Rachie_B

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

could we have the soup and lasagne recipe please? After you've done your lesson plans, naturally.

I would love to have these recipes too, please

littlesnuggy

After seeing this thread yesterday and having half a bag of sweet potatoes (half price in Sainsburys at the moment) to use up before I go away next weekend, I decided to make a sweet potato and red pepper soup. Used this recipe from the BBC website, and it was delicious - doubled the quantities to serve 2, and there is enough left for one portion tomorrow.

domestic_goddess

I have a nice bag of sweet potatoes and would love some ideas on what to do with them..........

I have done a quick search but I think I must be doing it wrong as so many threads came up to view and some of them did not have sweet poatoes mentioned in them:eek:

sunflower76

I use Sweet Potatoes in the same way as normal ones, either baked, roasted or boiled. MrS always moans about 'funny coloured mash' so it isn't often that i mash them but I think they are yummy mashed too.

fizzel81

we use them in with potatoes and make as my boys call it orange mash

there also nice roasted

Aphrodite

I had a similar problem recently and had a quick search on recipezaar. I ended up making oven chips with them, here: http://www.recipezaar.com/43469

They were quite nice, though not as crunchy as some of the reviewers managed to make them!

I've found that sweet potatoes are also really nice steamed.

jak

Sweet potatoes cut into chip shapes and either gilled on a george foreman or oven cooked are lovely! And better for you than the usual! We discovered the George freman way when our oven broke and it tool my landlord a while to get us a new one. BUT we still cook them now using it as they're so nice!
Just put a tiny bit of oil and some herbs on.
J
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