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I was given some large sweet potatoes but I've don't have any good recipes. I find them online but no clue if they are good or not.
How do you like YOUR sweet potatoes?
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I just like them baked....with a little butter/brown sugar to finish them off if I feel like it. I have made this in the past for family @ Thanksgiving, and everybody loved it.
COOKING LIGHT SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE
Source: Cooking Light Magazine, November/December 1995
Servings: 8 (1/2 cup per serving)
vegetable cooking spray
3 cups mashed cooked sweet potatoes (about 2 1/4 pounds)
1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/3 cup skim milk
2 egg whites, lightly beaten
2 tbsp reduced calorie stick melted margarine
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
FOR THE TOPPING:
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
2 tbsp chilled reduced-calorie stick margarine
1/3 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat an 8-inch square baking dish with cooking spray.
Combine the first seven ingredients in a bowl and stir well. Spoon sweet potato mixture into prepared baking dish.
Combine 1/2 cup brown sugar and flour in a bowl, and cut in 2 tablespoons chilled margarine with a pastry blender or 2 knives until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in the chopped pecans, and sprinkle over the sweet potato mixture.
Bake at 350F for 30 minutes.
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Most recipes call for adding additional sweetening such as brown sugar or marshmallows but I don't like all that sugar on mine. I just cut mine up into respectable sized chunks, throw them into a casserole dish with some butter and bake covered for an hour or so on 350 F until they are tender.
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Best way to eat yams:
Bake in over just like you would a baked potato
Cut in half - add butter to taste
eat
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You should know better, JPR. They're sweet potatoes, not yams. Yams aren't even related to sweet potatoes.
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Lynea posted:
You should know better, JPR. They're sweet potatoes, not yams. Yams aren't even related to sweet potatoes.
oh wow, are you serious? I never knew that. now I have to go look this up!
learn something new every day I guess.
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Yep, it's true! They're not even related. Yams are actually sweeter than sweet potatoes. They're generally bigger, too, and can grow as long as 7 feet!
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Peel, slice, single layer on a greased cookie sheet, sprinkled with some cinnamon and salt, baked at 450 until slightly browned and tender.
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Lynea posted:
You should know better, JPR. They're sweet potatoes, not yams. Yams aren't even related to sweet potatoes.
ok true yams arent sweet taters but down here in texas which we all the know the world revolves around, yams and sweet taters are used interchangibly
regardless - keep the damn brown sugar and marshmallows away from yummy sweet potatoes 
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I cut them in largeish chunks, toss with a little oil, salt and pepper and roast at 450 until they carmelize on the outside and are mushy inside. It is a newly acquired taste for me.
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at my house:) the way we cook them is
cut sweet potatos into chunks, cut onions into slices put in a baking dish, add some butter and add some maple syrup add some water mix it up and let it bake
its really good :o and it gets carmalized
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Upangel's recipe is very similar to my own. If you want to make it even lighter and go for a unique twist, use buttercup squash (not butternut) instead of sweet potato. Buttercup sort of looks like an acorn squash without the ridges. It has the same beautiful orange flesh and sweet, nutty taste. But it has <50 calories per 100g serving plus it's loaded with vitamin & mineral goodness.
To prepare, cut squash in half and scoop seeds out with a grapefruit spoon. Take a pan with sides and pour 1/2c of water into it. Place squash cut-side down in pan and bake at 350 for about half hour (until the rind can be easily pierced with a fork). Then after it has cooled, I scrape out the flesh until you start seeing the green rind. Since it has a somewhat firm texture even after baking, I run through the food processor. That also whips some air into it to give a light texture in the casserole.
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mash/puree with lime juice + chili powder among other things
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yams > sweet potatoes!
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I'm sure this would work with sweet potatoes too. It's a pretty simple dish I made for a tapas party 2 years ago at Christmas and been making it ever since. Not sure if I posted it here before.
BAKED YAMS WITH CINNAMON CHILI BUTTER
1/2 C. unsalted butter (1 stick)
1 T. plus 2 t. New Mexico chili powder*
1 T. ground cinnamon
1/2 t. salt
1/8 t. cayenne pepper
6 yams
Using electric mixer, beat first 5 ingredients in medium bowl until fluffy. (Can be made a few days ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to room temp before using.)
Preheat over to 400 degrees. Line large baking dish with foil. Place yams in dish, bake until tender, about 1 hr. 10 mins. Split each yam lengthwise. Spoon 1 T. butter mixture on each. Serve passing remaining butter separately.
*A pure chili powder, sold in spice section of some supermarkets. If unavailable, substitute equal quantity of regular chili powder.
Makes 6 servings.
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