/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6703165]

Guys, I've never had sweet potatoes in my life because they just don't sell them in my country. Now I see them in supermarkets but have no idea what to do with them. What's the best way to cook sweet potatoes in your opinion?

[Anonymous No.6703171]

roast @ 400 F for ~3 hours ( or until soft & oozing sugars )

let cool

peel & eat

[Anonymous No.6703172]

cut em up and roast 400 F for an hour or so with a bit of cayenne

[Natto-San !ASJIvpbYtE No.6703177]

>>6703165
Sweet potato pie is the pie of Gods. I also like blending them into a puree with cauliflower, olive oil, and some salt (pic realted, in the upper right corner).
I know a lot of people hate them, but I actually really enjoy sweet potato fries, personally a lot more than regular french fries, but that's a gamble since sweet potato fries seem to be a love/hate thing.

[Anonymous No.6703199]

hmm I'll try roasting them, seems pretty fool-proof. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.6704431]

treat them like pumpkin, they are moderately sweet and very mushy when cooked

[Anonymous No.6704643]

>>6703165
>
dice 1 big sweet potato 1cm -1/2inch
coat with 2 spoon olive oil
apply cumin + thyme liberally
roast
walla

[Anonymous No.6704652]

Where do you live?

[Anonymous No.6704694]

>>6703171
>peel

[Anonymous No.6704721]

>>6703165

simple and awesome recipe

http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/02/spicy-sweet-potato-wedges-plus-five-etceteras/

[Anonymous No.6704737]

I have some 8 month old sweet potatoes.

Are they still safe for consumption?

[Anonymous No.6704748]

>>6703165
Mashed and in a burrito

[Anonymous No.6704797]

>>6703165
mash those fuckers and add some butter

[Anonymous No.6704968]

People who buy food they have never seen/used/heard of/don't know how to cook piss me off to no end. What frivolous expenditures you must make daily. Fucking pleb.

[Anonymous No.6704979]

fuck all these baking fags. Slice into pieces and throw in a pot of boiling water. Wait until they get soft then drain and mash. add butter and brown sugar and cinnamon. really nice for dessert

[Anonymous No.6704997]

>>6704968
he didn't say he bought them, just that they're available and he wants to know what you'd do with them

[Anonymous No.6705000]

Microwaved for some minutes, cut in half , covered in cheese and eaten out of the skin. Then use the skin as a boat in the bath.

[Anonymous No.6705001]

>>6704968
What's it like never trying anything new ?
>Faggot.

[Anonymous No.6705006]

Shoestring fries with a bit o' garam masala, bit o' paprika, bit o' cumin. No sauce necessary but something acidic works well i.e. some sort of aioli

[Anonymous No.6705008]

Wrap tightly in foil and cook in oven at 375F for 1hr.

Fuck soft and "oozing" potatoes. I hope you enjoy eating dry and crumbling matter.

[Anonymous No.6705060]

>>6705001
Look here you asspained fucktard, when I go to buy new foods, I already have some inkling of what it is and how to cook it. I'm not the fucking idiots on here who see chicken breasts, buy ten pounds of the stuff, and then come begging to you all on how2cookplz?!?

[Anonymous No.6705075]

>>6705060
OP didn't even buy the sweet potato though, he just asked what you can do with them. Are you illiterate as well as retarded?

[Anonymous No.6705089]

>>6705000
lol tbh

[Anonymous No.6705093]

>>6705075
No, I can read. Calm down buddy. I'm merely commented on a trend on this board. Quit reading too much into shit, sweet christ.

[Anonymous No.6705099]

>>6705060
Your rump appears to be swollen and tender

[Anonymous No.6705128]

>>6705099
Look here shitstain, I'm not the angry one. You need to calm down with your accusatory samefaggotry. Chill the fuck out man.

[Anonymous No.6705147]

>>6705128
>I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast

Chill out dude

[Anonymous No.6705152]

>>6703171
Sweet potatoes don't need to go for 3 hours.

[Anonymous No.6705157]

I've never had them either but the name 'sweet potato' just confuses me tbh. I realize its probably a misnomer, but I just can't put the two together in any way

[Anonymous No.6705158]

if you want a really easy and nice snack or something to go on the side of a meal peel them cut into very thick fries and cook them for 30 minutes at about 200c until they get black around the edges because the black stuff is sweet as shit and its godly

[Anonymous No.6705162]

>>6704979
do this, OP

[Anonymous No.6705312]

>>6703165
You can go full /fit/-ard and just microwave it with the potato quick setting. Just add a litlle more since sweet taters need more heat than regular potatoes. Just wash it before and cover it.

Then remove the skin and seson lightly: a little butter and salt.

[Anonymous No.6705605]

Try using them in sweets rather than savoury dishes. For example, I made yam jam from purple sweet potato today because I got them super cheap (33¢/lb).
Here's the basic recipe:
Peel and cut up about 3lbs of yam and/or sweet potato of any colour. Try to keep it to one colour or it'll come out looking brown and unpleasant.
Put it in a pan.
Add water to barely cover and bring to the boil.
Mash as soon as they're soft enough to mash.
When mashed, cook, stirring constantly, until water has mostly reduced out then off the heat and add 400g of whole fat sweetened condensed milk (that's a single standard-sized can).
Mix together and set back to high heat.
When boiling again, lower the heat to medium-low/low and cook, stirring from time to time, until reduced and quite thick.
Add sugar to taste. I like grated palm sugar best, but American-style brown sugar (either light or dark), fresh-grated Mexican-style brown sugar (piloncillo/turbinado), white sugar or evaporated cane juice are all fine. Also just a bit of salt.
If desired, temper some beaten yolks with the jam-to-be and stir it back in for a richer mouthfeel.
Push through mesh or chinois/china-cap to separate fibrous parts from smooth parts.
Cool the fibrous bits and smooth bits in the fridge in separate containers.
Use the fibrous stuff in cakes.
Use the smooth as a spread for toast (add a bit of butter to the toast first, then the jam and om nom nom), a frosting for cake or mix 1:1:1 with milk and cream as a base for ice cream. You can also stir it into plain rice pudding or oatmeal or as a filling to steam buns and stuff. So. Fucking. Good.
You can also mix it with a little cornstarch and beaten eggs (once cool) and bake it in a pie shell. Americans like to add lots of powdered warming spices (cinnamon, clove and nutmeg being the most common three and, in fact, often the only ones used) but I like just a li'l 'nilla extract in mine. You can try both or, perhaps, a mix to your preferences.

[Anonymous No.6705747]

>>6705157
>but I just can't put the two together in any way

It tastes sweet you mong.

[Anonymous No.6705756]

Sweet potato pancakes.

Peel and cut into smaller pieces.

Steam.

Mash.

Add flour to bind.

Roll into doughy ball.

Pinch off appropriate size pieces and flatten/roll into pancake shapes.

Fry each side in hot pan.

[Anonymous No.6706327]

>>6703165
My two favorite simple ways to prepare. Cut into chunks with an onion and roast a chicken on top of them.
or for dessert simple roast them until done and serve with butter and a good drizzle of condensed milk.

[Anonymous No.6706346]

>>6705000
>>6705312

I do this. Tastes pretty decent and it's lazy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.6706379]

>>6703165
Boil 'em? Mash 'em? Stick 'em in a stew?

[Anonymous No.6706451]

>people don't eat the skin

[Anonymous No.6706458]

sweet potato pie

[Anonymous No.6706464]

should i make hash browns out of sweet potatoes instead of russet potatoes?

[Anonymous No.6706492]

>>6705312
>remove the skin

[Anonymous No.6706501]

I don't know what was said in here or anything. I don't have time to read all that crap. But my favorite way is to slice them into about 3/8 inch thick slices, put just a little olive oil and pepper on each one, both sides, put on a grill and flip once and they should be soft and good. Make sure they're browned sort of but not burned and not raw. Don't go with all the sugar stuff/marshmallow/pies (although good it can be too much) Also, just shave the thing on a shredder like a normal potato for hash browns, cooked until more dry, then grind to a powder almost and sprinkle on buttered popcorn. It's amazing.

[Anonymous No.6706555]

You could cut them up and steam them for like 5-7 minute if you just want it to be fast. Add butter, cinnamon, whatever, mash it up. Delicious.

Roasting is easy, just throw them in there for an hour, takes longer though. Honestly most of the time I just cook them and eat them plain, fucking delicious.

[Anonymous No.6707318]