5 lbs of sweet potatoes

[jlpumkin]

one or 2 nights of baked sweets I can do, but that's going to get old quick. Any other ideas? Quick and easy is best... oh I can make sweet potato oven fries one night... maybe.

[kate42]

Sweet potato bread and muffins? I mashed them and used them like pumpkin last time I baked.

[cristeen]

5 lbs really isn;t that much, and they'll keep a while. This is my fave recipe though: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/fo...d-Parmesan-878

But I also use them in breakfast hash.

[dachshundqueen]

sweet potato pie

sweet potato raviolis (subbed for butternut squash)

I once saw sweet potato shepherd's pie (sweets instead of whites) but DH said no go.

sweet potato bb enchiladas or tacos

sweet potato in soup melts into the broth

Liz

[deditus]

Yeha, we eat about 10 lbs/month. Pretty much just baked sweet potatoes, hash, and sweet potato fries. It's good in custard, too, but we can't do eggs anymore.

[jlpumkin]

My kids don't eat sweet potatoes so it's just between 2 of us. And I guess our regular sweet potato intake much be lower than the national average because I feel like this heap of taters is a mountain. lol

Thanks for some great ideas... off to google some recipes =)

[puffingirl]

Sweet potato latkes are delicious!

[Lizafava]

We eat mashed sweet potatoes that are just freaking awesome and good for snacks/lunches for days. You know, just boil with skins, mash with butter and a little maple syrup and salt.

I used to make pan fried sweet potatoes with carmelized brandy sauce for holidays. Yum.

[deditus]

Oh, I forgot back when I could eat gluten and dairy and eggs, I loved sweet potato coffee cake. You can also bake and freeze them for later - I do this with leftovers and use them in muffins, pancakes, quick breads, etc. Latkes are really good, forgot about those, dd LOVES them.

[columbusmomma]

I like them in potato salad instead of white potatoes!

[JessicaS]

I cut them up, boil them in chicken broth and then mash. They are so yummy.

[Magelet]

we're big sweet potato fans, I'd say we maybe eat 3-5 lbs a week for the past few months, almost all baked, between the two of us.

I don't have a lot of sweet potato ideas that haven't been mentioned, but if you have roasted sweet potatoes that you peel the skins off (easier when warm) for say sweet potato pie or custard or something, roast the sweet potato skins with some butter and salt until crispy and hot, and much as a snack. It's super yummy.

Cut them into peices or halves and fry in some butter?

[napless]

We love candied sweet potatoes! Here is the recipe. (I've tried making them with honey instead of brown sugar and they were almost as good, but not quite.)

6 Tbsp/90 mL melted butter

1/4 cup/60 mL brown sugar

1 Tbsp/15 mL cider vinegar

1/2 tsp/2 mL salt

1/4 tsp/1 mL pepper

1 clove garlic, pressed

2 cooking apples, cored and cut into chunks

1 sweet potato, peeled and cut into chunks

1 yam, peeled and cut into chunks

1 medium-sized onion, peeled and cut into chunks

Preheat oven to 425F/220C.


In a large bowl, mix the butter, brown sugar, cider vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic.

Add the apples, sweet potato, yam, and onion to the bowl.
(When the cold vegetables meet the warm butter sauce, the sauce may turn gloppy. That's OK.)

Toss everything together well and transfer to a casserole dish.
Cover with foil. Bake for 30 minutes.
Remove the foil and bake until all of the vegetable are tender (approximately 30 minutes more).

[katiesk]

my favorite is to saute small pieces of unpeeled sweet potatoes in coconut oil until tender and then add brown sugar, salt and finely chopped garlic and jalapeno.

sweet potato burritos, with black beans and cilantro.

sweet potato in a quiche or egg bake.

[esmicosaquehago]

Sweet potato fries! I also love this pumpkin soup - only uses one sweet potato but its soooo good.

INGREDIENTS
1. 1 2/3 pounds sugar pumpkin -- peeled, seeded and cubed
2. 2 carrots, coarsely chopped
3. 2 onions, cut into wedges
4. 2 1/2 tablespoons oil (I used safflower)
5. 1 large sweet potato, sliced
6. 1 quart water
7. 3 cubes chicken bouillon, crumbled
8. 1 cup heavy cream (I used whole milk - I imagine for vegans/lactose intolerant you could add a cup of chicken stock and it would still be really good, just different mouthfeel)
9. 1 1/4 tablespoons ground nutmeg (Didn't have any, so I used cinammon and fresh ginger... I know, I know, totally different flavors but it worked really well)
10. 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
salt to taste

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
Place pumpkin, carrots and onions in a baking dish or roasting pan. Drizzle with vegetable oil.
Bake in preheated oven 40 minutes, until soft but not blackened.
In a large pot over medium heat, bring water and bouillon to a boil. Cook potato in simmering water until soft, about 20 minutes.
Combine potato and water with roasted vegetables and puree in a blender or food processor or using an immersion blender until smooth. Return to pot over low heat, and stir in cream, nutmeg, pepper and salt. Heat gently; serve.

[425lisamarie]

My absolute favorite thing with sweet potatoes is make a creamy casserole. I make a sweet and savory version. Bake or boil whole potatoes with the skins on, then cool. Better even if you can stick em in the fridge overnight. I usually do this after eating them plain baked or mashed the first night. Next day take about 2.5 pounds and peel the skins off, then grate in a food processor or on the coarse side of a box grater. For sweet version, stir in cream or coconut milk, you need about 2 cups liquid half of it needs to be thick like cream, some cinnamon, nutmeg, or whatever spices you like for something like pumpkin pie or whatever, maybe a little orange zest, vanilla and pinch of salt. Then crumble some brown sugar and butter and sprinkle on the top; pour in to a casserole dish and bake untill bubbly and nicely colored on top.

For a savory thing I take about 2.5 pounds, grate same way. Bring 1 cup cream, 1 cup chicken broth to simmer, add a couple cloves of crushed garlic, tsp salt, some pepper, a generous amount of parmesan. Pour into a casserole and bake at 400 until bubbly. I sprinkle the top with buttered breadcrumbs.

I sometimes use part sweet, part white potatoes, but only for the savory one, and that's only because DH is annoying and feels like sweet potatoes are too healthy :

[jlpumkin]

wow these sound great! Thanks for some great recipes. I had some potatoes go bad, ate some and just a few left.. definitely going to try one of these, though probably don't have enough for the casserole. Maybe the soup, I love pumpkin soup.

[tsk_mum]

great ideas here for you & me

I find they do keep well though in cool , dark spot

[momtoS]

I have a really good, yummy recipe for sweet potato PANCAKES...if you would like the recipe I will post it....

[BedHead]

I made sweet potato sabji last night - very easy and took about 45 minutes to cook. Basically I sauteed onion, garlic, green chilis and ginger in ghee and added turmeric, garam masala, dried methi and a bit of curry powder and chili powder. Once the onions were translucent I added chopped up sweet potato, a chopped up tomato and some turkey broth and simmered till the potato was cooked. I made rotis to eat it with - yum! I'm having leftovers for lunch today - I can hardly wait!