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Is a sweet potato the same as a yam?

The more frequently I am given sweet potato, and it is not that often, but they turned up as chips in a recent restaurant meal, the more I realise how much I dislike them.

They have no flavour, just a vague sweetness - I do NOT have a sweet tooth and disintegrate on your tongue into a textureless texture.

Sweet potatoes have a lower GI than normal potatoes so better for blood sugar. Eating these is equal to eating brown instead of white for bread/pasta/rice.
Mixing sweet and ordinary potatoes together for mash is a compromise for those who are not too keen.

I can’t eat white/normal potatoes so sweet potatoes are a great substitute - mashed or as wedges.

So many ideas!
Maybe I'll give them another chance , but not in a slow casserole.

Love sweet potatoes; not only taste good and are nutritious, but lower calories than 'ordinary' potatoes.

Sweet potatoes are particularly useful for oven baking as the chunks, drizzled with oil, bake in a very short time, and retain their form.

In my experience they are no good for soup or otherwise cooking in water.

Sweet potato and red pepper soup is lovely in the autumn.

As chips or cut into chunks and roasted.

I have also baked them (sometimes in the microwave) as an alternative to normal potato.
Mashed with ordinary potato for a topping for cottage or shepherd's pie.

Added to soups, they make the soup very smooth.

Recipe in Tesco magazine suggested baked sweet potatoes, will definitely give that a try.

Try boiling, then mashing sweet potatoes with a little coconut oil (in place of butter/spread) and cinnamon. Really lovely!

They are a soft potato so need a lot less cooking than white potatoes They are lovely boiled for a short period, fried, mashed in wedges, curries very versatile There is also a variety of white instead of orangey red sweet potato that I like even better but I can’t buy it many places

We've just had a Sweet Potato Curry. No need for rice so low in carbs.

I put them in chunky veggie homemade soup, my Son likes sweet potato chips but I don't, each to their own.

I love sweet potatoes, they are so versatile.

I love them:

Especially in a lamb curry or stew. They cook a lot quicker than white potatoes so they need to be added later in the process.

They are great cut into chunks and roasted and added to bulk out vegetarian lasagne (with whatever ratatouille mix you use).

Or sometimes I add the cold roast leftover chunks to a salad, with feta.

I bake them with the skins on, and serve them with sour cream.

Just made myself hungry!

Sweet potato mashed with sour cream is delicious. Sweet potato fries or wedges done in the oven with a little oil are really good too .

Fennel I am not surprised that you didn't like sweet potato done like that. In any case 'new to you' foods can always be an acquired taste.
Baked sweet potato is lovely and contains lower carbs than potaoes. Roasted sweet potato made really crispy is very good as are batons made as oven roasted chips as long as your oven is hot enough. You can use mashed sweet potato for topping in the same way as mashed potato. If you have a sweet tooth there is little to beat a North Carolina sweet potato casserole but the fact that sweet potato is low carb is completely shot with all the added sugar! Far too sweet for me but DH loves it.

Thanks for the ideas. Are they nutritious?

mash with a bit of milk or cream,butter salt and pepper.a fall staple in my house.

sweet tater fires yum/dip in mayo yummier.
spray oil is a great way to"fry"anything in oven.
i have converted all my recipes that will convert.

I'm not too keen but occasionally have them baked, then mashed with lashings of caribbean hot sauce.

I put them in curries, but as nina says cut into large chunks. They do not take as long as regular potatoes to cook. I've also made mash with them, and served them along with ordinary mashed potatoes to go with a casserole.

I think most potatoes would disintigrate if casseroled cut into battons. Sweet potatoes are good done as TwiceasNice says. I have cut them into large chunks and cooked in casserole and they were fine.
Healthy too.

They are quite nice done as wedges in the oven. Cut them into thick chip like shapes drizzle oil over them and bake