Sweet potatoes

I love twice fried sweet potato fat chips or oven chips with them parboiled and then put in a roasting tin in hot oil which a been heated with loads of whole garlic cloves. Not quite wedges but not far off!!

Baked as for baked potato, split and served with sour cream.

I cube sweet potatoes & aubergine. Also slice courgette. Add onion and garlic, olive oil and season. Roast in the oven for an hour or until cooked through. Nice served with lasagne.

Pie, like pumpkin only with sweet potatoes instead.

Candid sweet potatoes are a fantastic accompaniment to roast turkey at Christmas (much better than cranberry sauce imho. Just peel and cube and bake for about 40 mins with brown sugar and butter. Will freeze til Xmas.

I steam them, until soft, then sprinkle a no salt seasoning on them, then bake them and you have a healthy french fry with no oil.

In NZ they are known as kumara and kumara chips are pretty darn good. You can get them from some chip shops, along with, sometimes, deep fried battered scallops. sigh.
(just like wedges only smaller i guess)
Kumara curry.
Oh and they are good in soup.

I like sweet potatoes, one of my son loves them and rarely eats the other kind anymore. He and his girlfriend cooked a meal for us on my husband's birthday back in September, which included some very nice sweet potato chips sprinkled with Chilli powder, good but hot! I use them in mash sometimes mixing them with Maris Pipers, my grandson of 18 months also likes them when I give them to him. I put them in casseroles as well, just chop them up and throw them in no pre boiling.

I tried this recipe two or three weeks ago. Really delicious, can thoroughly recommend it!

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In Bhopal! I wonder what the carriage charges are? Not somewhere you would pop in for a pint of milk . . .

Sweet potatoes l have just seen a lasagne made with them on Lorraine,slice the potatoes very very thin,layer with mince twice,third layer on top sprinkled with Parmesan cheese very healthy.Find recipe on today's Lorraine programme.

That sounds really nice indinana; i might try it on my son when he comes down again. He roasted some sweet potatoes when we went up to lunch at the weekend. I said "dad won't eat them, he's always refused them when we've had them". He said okay. They went on his plate anyway and DH ate them, then said "they were nice, what were they". When told, he said, "why haven't we had them, then?" Me under the table chewing the carpet! I like them roasted, then topped with soured cream and chives.

Cut into oven chips with a bit of oil and lots of caraway seeds, salt and pepper. Lovely.