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Tonight I made mashed sweet potatoes to go with our ham and corn. I used to do white potatoes but I am upgrading my nutrition.
This time I had some coconut water in the fridge and substituted it for about 1/2 the milk I put in the potatoes. It was a lightly sweet treat!
I had made fresh corn salsa the night before and had some leftover so I put the leftover canned corn we had tonight in there to beef it up and give it a longer life.
In my spirit of cook once, eat twice, what can I do with the sweet potatoes?
Frost meatloaf with them.
If you want to use up the mashed sweet potatoes, try sweet potato pancakes. You might have to adjust the recipe a little since you have already added ingredients to the potatoes. There are lots of other recipes online with different variations.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/40-a-day/sweet-potato-...
This is just an FYI:
Sweet potatoes are from Peru and much sweeter than Yams which come from North Africa. Yams are dryer and seem heavier. White Potatoes are from Peru also and were taken back to Europe by the explorers. I always thought they were "Irish" since they were so often called 'Irish Potatoes'
I like either with chicken or turkey, topped with gravy.
I often cook one sweet potato with one apple and a little cinnamon.
One sweet potato (small cubes)
One apple (chopped up small)
Cinnamon to taste
Put the sweet potato and apple in a small sauce pan. Cover one third with water. Cover the pan with a lid. Bring to a boil and then simmer for about 15-20 minutes until the sweet potato and apple is cooked through.
Stir every five minutes to ensure that everything gets cooked evenly. If you over-stir, the sweet potatoes will get mushy. Don't worry though, they still taste fine. Some people actually prefer it this way. Add cinnamon about 5 minutes before finished cooking. (After 10 minutes if the sweet potatoes are cubed on the smaller side, 15 minutes if larger.)
We eat this cold.
Sometimes, I will add some uncooked apple, grapes, mandarin oranges, pineapple, raisins, some soft cheese (I like goda.), a little plain yogurt, a little low-fat mayonnaise, some almond slices and grated coconut to this for a wonderful healthy dessert.
This is something we frequently eat for breakfast or at snacktime. If you didn't add any butter, salt or pepper to the sweet potatoes you could do the same thing I do to switch up the taste of my simple recipe. I don't think that the coconut milk would make it taste strange. It might make it taste even better.
How about just eating them plain? That's the way we like them best. I usually just wrap them in foil and bake them for a couple of hours and they are so sweet and yummy when they come out they don't need anything!
