Sweet Potato

[sengas]

Please can someone tell me the best way to cook sweet potato thank you.

[4getmenot]

Cut into wedges, cover with oil and bake. Or mash is nice.

[Richard1966]

They cook exactly like potato, so pick your favourite and go for it. Have to say I like them cooked like chips.

[LyndaB]

Drizzle with a bit of olive oil and roast - delicious

[ferlew]

Great in a soup too.

[woofgang]

sweet potato and lime soup.
per 2 to 4 servings.
1 large or two medium sweet potatoes
juice of a fresh lime
about a a pint of chicken or vegetable stock
optional king prawns lime peel in shreds or grated

peel and chop up the sweet potato and simmer it in the stock till soft. Either blitz it or sieve it. Adjust the seasoning and thickness with a little more stock if needed. Just before serving and off the heat, stir in the lime juice. for a posh starter or a more hearty lunch, get the soup to the season checking stage and add some king prawns to warm through gently. Keep back one king prawn per serving. Stir in the lime juice and divide the prawns among the plates, topping up with the soup. Add a king prawn and the lime peel shreds or grated lime peel.Serve with crispbread, crackers or crusty bread. Look modest.

[ummmm]

They cook way quicker than normal potatoes.

If you want them mashed just bake them in their skins and scoop out the flesh.

Wedges like 4get says...

Woof....I might try that.

[Old_Geezer]

I've not had many, but also thought they were treated just like the 'normal' spud was, and cooked according to taste.

woofgang reminds me that the times I have used them is in soup. In my case the recipe I had was for butternut squash & sweet potato soup (with onions and other ingredients). It was rather nice but worked out less friendly to my weight loss diet that it should have been :-)

[woofgang]

that's what I like about that soup OG. No added cream, oil or sugar and not much salt either AND its delicious.

[Anngel123]

I add Raz al Hanout sprinkled on about 10 minutes before you have finished roasting as per recipe above. That lime soup sounds awesome....