Sweet potato recipes and ideas please!

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 The sweet potatoes have done so well that we have loads to use. I generally chunk them and roast with a selection of root veg, or make  Sunshine Soup( a mix of sweet potatoes, butternut squash, carrots and a hint of ginger). Does anyone have any good recipes ? also, how are they best stored?

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[Barnowl]

I'm actually eating sweet potato soup at my desk as I type this!

Sweet Potatoes/Onions/ butter or oil/ chillies / garlic / grated galangal or ginger / lemon grass / kaffir lime leaves/ lime / stock / coconut milk / coriander leaf

Apart from the main ingredients, the others are used pretty much to taste.

Peel and chop up potatoes and onions. Sweat them in butter (or oil) with lemongrass, chopped up chillies and garlic.  Once soft (about 20 mins)  add enough stock and coconut milk to at least to cover the veg together with lime leaves, the juice from half a lime and the lime skin. Simmer gently for another 20 mins adding the chopped coriander near the end. Fish out the lemon grass and lime leaves and whizz it to a smooth consistency. If it's too thick add more coconut milk / stock.

[STHLMgreen]

For dessert!
Wrapped in aluminum foil and baked then a touch of butter and brown sugar.
Yum!

They're pricey in Sweden. I love them in roasts and soups too.

[trojanrabbit]

They are great mashed as an accompaniment to middle eastern type dishes, or anything you like for that matter!
Chunk, boil, mash with butter, then mix in a handful of raisins and some ground cinnamon and ginger.

[bennettsleg]

sweet potatoes like butter & chilli for sure, but be careful on the spices. It's a vegetable quite high on the "mouth" stakes (if that makes any sense? Flavour,  texture, scent) and it can be tipped over to too much. Cloves for example can be overpowering.  Infuse cardamon & cinnamon in some milk or cream & strain then add to the mash or simmer the sweet pots (poach, really) with some spices in the water for delicacy. Fry garlic and chilli in some good oil and drizzle over the top.

It's great as a pie topping or sliced and mixed with par boiled pots for a bake/gratin (sweet pots cook quicker). The americans like cooking them with marshmallows for candied yams. Baked whole or as wedges; roasted are fantastic as the sugars start to caramelise - be careful though, they can burn easily and as they cook alot faster than normal pots can end up too soft with burn bits. I have no idea if they would work as chips. Make sure they are fully drained and even leave them spread out on a surface to dry off completely before using in anything as they can hold a lot of water between each chunk.  Soggy mash is easily done!

The best thing is to experiment; use them whenever you would use normal pots and then push the boundaries.  Have fun!

[Moggle]

Have seen them reccomended to be baked whole as an alternative to normal jacket spud - low GI too if you are in to that. Apparently you can make them in to oven chips/wedges, but not tried that either.

[Gadfium]

Lovely as plain baked sweet potatoes.

A friend simply slices them into 1/8-1/4" slices, brushes them with a little oil and sticks them under the grill. Very nice.