Cooking sweet potato: how?

My favorite way to prepare sweet potatos:

Peel your sweet potato & then cut it into thick slices.

Coat in olive oil or melted butter and put it in a 375 degree oven on a
cookie sheet until the pieces are soft and carmelized.

Put the slices in a bowl & add a little more butter, some cinnamon,
some nutmeg & a little salt. If you want to add a little more
sweetness, some maple syrup is also good.

Smush it a little with a fork and call it done.

Robyn

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I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

Peel and slice 1" thick. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with salt,
pepper, anda something else if desired such as paprika, ground cumin, or
curry powder. Bake at 375 until done - 15-20 min perhaps.

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Peter Aitken

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I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other
ways of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is
the simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for
how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a
Gmail invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

French Fried Sweet Potato is great...K

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Kerry in Langley

Try this:

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Sweet Potato Soup

2 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 medium onion; coarsly cut
2 clove garlic
3 medium sweet potato; peeled, quartered
4 cup chicken stock
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup creme fraiche
2 tablespoon chipotle chilli; pureed
1 salt and pepper

Melt butter and sweat the garlic and onion until translucent. Raise heat to
high and add the sweetpotatoes and stock and bring to the boil. Lower heat
then simmer for about 30 minutes.
Remove from the heat and add the honey, cream, chipotles and salt and
pepper. Puree the mixture.
Serve garnished with blue corn tortilla chips and/or chopped coriander.

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tatos and friends say I should try other ways

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of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

FERRANTE said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

I bake them just like I would a regular baked potato. Rub with a little
oil, sprinkle with salt, [censored] with a fork, bake @ 375F for an hour. They
are very moist inside so they don't need much butter at all. You can also
boil and mash them.

Jill

FERRANTE said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try
other ways of eating them. I bought one sweet potato
yesterday. What is the simplest and best way to prepare
it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't
say a Gmail invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

Baked...similar to a baked white potato.
Fried...similar to a regular fried potato, either cut into "fries" or cut
into circles, then deep or pan fried.
Grilled over your charcoal fire, cut into round slices, dipped in olive
oil, then grilled 'til done.
Sliced thin and eaten raw.

BOB

FERRANTE said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

Roast it, simply wash it and put it on the oven rack (we put a small
piece of Al foil on the oven floor underneath in case there are some
sugar drips). 350 for more than an hour depending on size. It will be
much softer to the touch than a regular potato when done. The natural
sugars will caramelize into a nice layer on the bottom. Remove, peel,
eat. The roasting brings out great tasting natural flavors.

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I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

My early experience with sweetbucks was with the somewhat "wild type"
which is slightly greenish inside when cooked and contains some weak
"strings". These were *delicious* when cooked by my grandmother in
her old wood-fired oven decades ago.

She simply chucked them in with the chook when cooking that special
Sunday dinner (actually at lunch time, at about 30C and 85%RH 🙂.
They went in with the spuds -- or in lieu of the spuds -- and onion
and pumpkin. (Sometimes taro too.)

Apart from the onion, the veggies all came out with that scrumptious
crisp outer "shell" and lovely and moist inside. The onions came out
with a sort of caramelised skin.

Cheers, Phred.

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FERRANTE said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

Baked is the only way to go in my opinion and the simpler the better.
Brings back memories of my grandmother who lived alone and kept a HUGE
garden well into her ninties. My favorite treat - she would pull
young sweet taters when they looked like large human fingers, bake
them till the skin was crunchy and serve them with melted butter for
dipping. You can't even image how good they were.

FERRANTE said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

THE simplest way?

Scrub off dirt with a brush and water.
Pierce about 10 times with the point of a knife.
Wrap loosely in a paper towel.
Put in microwave. Use potato setting or give it about 3-4 minutes.
Check that it does not get overdone by stabbing with a fork.

You can then eat it any way you want. Well cooked potato will be sweet.
We mash with butter and (sometimes) a little maple syrup.

LB

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FERRANTE said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

THE simplest way?

Scrub off dirt with a brush and water.
Pierce about 10 times with the point of a knife.
Wrap loosely in a paper towel.
Put in microwave. Use potato setting or give it about 3-4 minutes.
Check that it does not get overdone by stabbing with a fork.

You can then eat it any way you want. Well cooked potato will be sweet.
We mash with butter and (sometimes) a little maple syrup.

If you microwave sweet potatoes, they fail to develop a lot of the
wonderful sweet flavor that they can deliver. It's not enough just to
get them hot. Microwaving simply does not take enough time to do the job
properly.

Bake them -- longer than you would a white potato -- and then split and
add butter.

Bake more than you will eat. Let the rest cool. Next day (or soon),
peel, slice about 1/4 inch thick, and saute in butter, slowly, to let
the sugar caramelize, until nicely brown on both sides. Yum. Marvelous
as a side dish to a pork roast.

Isaac

On Mon 21 Feb 2005 09:21:11p, Isaac Wingfield wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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In article said:

FERRANTE said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

THE simplest way?

Scrub off dirt with a brush and water.
Pierce about 10 times with the point of a knife.
Wrap loosely in a paper towel.
Put in microwave. Use potato setting or give it about 3-4 minutes.
Check that it does not get overdone by stabbing with a fork.

You can then eat it any way you want. Well cooked potato will be sweet.
We mash with butter and (sometimes) a little maple syrup.

If you microwave sweet potatoes, they fail to develop a lot of the
wonderful sweet flavor that they can deliver. It's not enough just to
get them hot. Microwaving simply does not take enough time to do the job
properly.

Bake them -- longer than you would a white potato -- and then split and
add butter.

Bake more than you will eat. Let the rest cool. Next day (or soon),
peel, slice about 1/4 inch thick, and saute in butter, slowly, to let
the sugar caramelize, until nicely brown on both sides. Yum. Marvelous
as a side dish to a pork roast.

Isaac

Now that's the way to cook a sweet potato!

Wayne

Since they take so long to cook, I microwave them for a few minutes and
then bake them as this reduces the baking time. They develop that
great mushy carmelized taste. Split open and add butter and brown
sugar. Can also add cinnamon and or maple syrup.

Peter Aitken said:

Peel and slice 1" thick. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with

salt,

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pepper, anda something else if desired such as paprika, ground cumin,

or

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curry powder. Bake at 375 until done - 15-20 min perhaps.

I slice them a little thinner than this, salt 'em and bake. When
they're done, I hit them with some powdered chipotle pepper.

Not much like candied sweet potatoes (which I hate), but quite
good.

Cindy Hamilton

Isaac Wingfield said:

In article said:

FERRANTE said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

THE simplest way?

Scrub off dirt with a brush and water.
Pierce about 10 times with the point of a knife.
Wrap loosely in a paper towel.
Put in microwave. Use potato setting or give it about 3-4 minutes.
Check that it does not get overdone by stabbing with a fork.

You can then eat it any way you want. Well cooked potato will be sweet.
We mash with butter and (sometimes) a little maple syrup.

If you microwave sweet potatoes, they fail to develop a lot of the
wonderful sweet flavor that they can deliver. It's not enough just to
get them hot. Microwaving simply does not take enough time to do the job
properly.

Bake them -- longer than you would a white potato -- and then split and
add butter.

Bake more than you will eat. Let the rest cool. Next day (or soon),
peel, slice about 1/4 inch thick, and saute in butter, slowly, to let
the sugar caramelize, until nicely brown on both sides. Yum. Marvelous
as a side dish to a pork roast.

Isaac

Have you ever actually tried it?
They taste plenty sweet to us AND the OP asked for the simplest way to
cook them. I answered that part of the post.
For those a little weak in math 5 minutes is about 1/10th of 50 minutes.

LB

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Quoted message said:

I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

Mark, I just baked one last week along with a pork roast. Scrubbed,
pricked, and baked for about an hour and something, I think, at 325. I
halved it lengthwise and ate it like a regular baked spud -- no sour
cream, but I just scooped the flesh from the shell. It didn't need any
sweetening, but I've been known to add a little brown sugar and butter
to te peeled and boiled sweet that's been cooked stovetop. Texas
Roadhouse Grill (?) restaurant chain serves them with cinnamon in the
brown sugar. Could be worse.
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-Barb
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"I got the motive, which is money; and the body, which is dead!" - Rod
Steiger as Sheriff Gillespie, "In the Heat of the Night," 1967.

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Isaac Wingfield said:

In article said:

FERRANTE wrote:
>
> I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
> of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
> simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?
>
> Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
> invite)?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

THE simplest way?

Scrub off dirt with a brush and water.
Pierce about 10 times with the point of a knife.
Wrap loosely in a paper towel.
Put in microwave. Use potato setting or give it about 3-4 minutes.
Check that it does not get overdone by stabbing with a fork.

You can then eat it any way you want. Well cooked potato will be sweet.
We mash with butter and (sometimes) a little maple syrup.

If you microwave sweet potatoes, they fail to develop a lot of the
wonderful sweet flavor that they can deliver. It's not enough just to
get them hot. Microwaving simply does not take enough time to do the job
properly.

Bake them -- longer than you would a white potato -- and then split and
add butter.

Bake more than you will eat. Let the rest cool. Next day (or soon),
peel, slice about 1/4 inch thick, and saute in butter, slowly, to let
the sugar caramelize, until nicely brown on both sides. Yum. Marvelous
as a side dish to a pork roast.

Isaac

Have you ever actually tried it?

Yup. Exactly once. Never again.

Isaac

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In article said:

Isaac Wingfield said:

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] wrote:

> FERRANTE wrote:
> >
> > I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other
> > ways of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is
> > the simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for
> > how long?
> >
> > Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a
> > Gmail invite)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
> THE simplest way?
>
> Scrub off dirt with a brush and water.
> Pierce about 10 times with the point of a knife.
> Wrap loosely in a paper towel.
> Put in microwave. Use potato setting or give it about 3-4 minutes.
> Check that it does not get overdone by stabbing with a fork.
>
> You can then eat it any way you want. Well cooked potato will be
> sweet. We mash with butter and (sometimes) a little maple syrup.

If you microwave sweet potatoes, they fail to develop a lot of the
wonderful sweet flavor that they can deliver. It's not enough just to
get them hot. Microwaving simply does not take enough time to do the
job properly.

Bake them -- longer than you would a white potato -- and then split
and add butter.

Bake more than you will eat. Let the rest cool. Next day (or soon),
peel, slice about 1/4 inch thick, and saute in butter, slowly, to let
the sugar caramelize, until nicely brown on both sides. Yum.
Marvelous as a side dish to a pork roast.

Isaac

Have you ever actually tried it?

Yup. Exactly once. Never again.

Isaac

Never again what? Microwaving the sweet potato? I wholeheartedly agree.

I learned from my mother to bake them in a slow ~325°F oven for between 1-
1/2 to 2 hours. Perfect caramelization of the sugars under the skin. When
she was a child growing up in the country, her mother baked them even
slower and longer on an open hearth.

Mom would also prepare them as you suggested, sliced and slowly sauteed in
butter or even bacon fat. Usually she would dust the slices very lightly
with granulated sugar. One could make a meal on that melt-in-your-mouth
goodness. We sometimes had them for breakfast with slices of fried country
ham, eggs, and biscuits.

Wayne

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I love candied sweet potatos and friends say I should try other ways
of eating them. I bought one sweet potato yesterday. What is the
simplest and best way to prepare it? Bake? What temp and for how long?

Should Iadd anthing other than butter (and please don't say a Gmail
invite)?

Thanks,
Mark

I cooked one tonight -- peeled, sliced it into 1" thick circles and
boiled it. Boiled the water totally out of the pan; bottom of the pan
is coated black but the sweets were miraculously salvageable. The
stuck-to-the-pan parts merely lookly*lightly* caramelized. I didn't
serve them with supper but ate about half of them cold from the dish I
transferred them to. Plain. Not buttah, no sugar, no nuthin'. Mighty
tasty.

I've got the bottom of the pan covered with baking soda and will rinse
it clean in the morning.
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"I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.