sweet potato recipes?

[ratcreature]

I've never had sweet potatoes (they're somewhat exotic here), but today my supermarket had some on offer so I got a couple.

Do you have any favorite recipes highlighting their taste that would be good to try them?

Comments

[tazlet]

I think they're wonderful simply baked and served with butter and lemon-pepper. I also like to steam, peal and mash them with chopped, lightly steamed walnuts (seasoned to taste with butter, lemon-pepper and parsley). The 'All American Classic' from the 50s is to mash them with butter, brown sugar, a shake of salt, and orange juice - press the potatoes into a baking dish, dot them neatly with marshmallows that you've torn in half - pop them into a hot oven until the marshmallows are toasted golden brown. You can also make sweet-potato pie.

[ratcreature]

The marshmallow thing is right out, I don't think I've seen any without gelatine here. (Actually I can't remember ever eating marshmallow either, there is a similar kind of sweet here, called Mäusespeck, i.e. "micebacon" but I always found that gross as a kid, and then I became vegetarian as teenager.)

[tazlet]

The marshmallows are really only done for holidays, if that's the way your grandmother fixed them. Sugar is pretty much overkill on sweet potatoes.