I want to share with you my love of sweet potatoes! Not only because they are popping up in the warmer parts of the country right now, but because they store quite well throughout the winter, are still easy to find this time of year and are powerhouses of flavor and nutrients that are needed during these colder months.
Often you will see sweet potatoes listed as yams. At grocery stores, if you see Garnet Yams or Jewel Yams know you are actually looking at a sweet potato. There is a fascinating history as to why they are often misnamed, but I will reserve that story for another day.
Sweet potatoes are joyfully diverse to play with in your kitchen. I serve them raw like carrot sticks, stir-fried or sauteed in thin pieces, shredded, or roasted. I also consider sweet potatoes my lazy meal, because after a quick scrub the whole vegetable, skin and all, can be tossed in the oven and roasted until soft as I did with these Lime Sweet Potatoes (photo above). After roasting, they are great plain or added to other dishes such as the Black Bean & Sweet Potato Enchiladas or the Sweet Potato & Bean Shepherd’s Pie.
Of course, I frequently take a bit more effort by peeling and chopping the sweet potatoes into the Jamaican Sweet Potato Salad or the Creamed Coconut Sweet Potatoes.
To select sweet potatoes…
The less banged up the better, but in most cases dark spots and scars can be cut or peeled off. Discard any soft or mushy sweet potatoes. This often starts at the pointy tips and is evidence of a soon to rot sweet potato.
One of the best features of sweet potatoes is they are nutrient packed and lower on the glycemic index then regular potatoes. Just check out Dr. Rosen’s blog about Sweet Potatoes for Blood Sugar for more information about their incredible health benefits.
The next time you need a nutritious, easy dinner you are only a sweet potato away.
Cook seasonally. Eat consciously. Live well,
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