View Full Version : A different way to cook sweet potatoes (and fibrous veggies)


imsuxok?
Fri, January 14th, 2005, 10:40 PM
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Say hello to your new best friend, the box grater.

Prep:
- Peel a regular sized sweet potato and grate it using your box grater
- Peel a small onion and grate it as well. You can dice, slice or cut up the onion any way you like for a textural difference, but it cooks fastest if it's grated.
- Finely dice a clove or two of garlic

Cooking:
- Heat a non-stick pan
- Saute the grated onion briefly (It burns easily in grated form, so keep it moving and watch it closely)
- Add the garlic and saute briefly
- Add the grated sweet potato and a cup of water
- Turn heat to high and cook until the sweet potato is tender. You may need to add more water if the mixture starts to stick.
- Stir in 2 tsp of smooth peanut butter and 1 Tbsp of yogurt. Cook briefly on high heat until any excess moisture is gone.
- Season with freshly ground black pepper
- Remove from heat and stir in some dried parsley to finish.

This method can also be used with fibrous veggies like zucchini, carrots, squash, parsnip, turnip, etc., etc. It's a nice alternative to the boring old microwaved sweet potato or steamed veggies.

luna1
Mon, February 21st, 2005, 02:39 PM
My favorite way to make sweet potatoes is to cut them into wedges and put them on a cookie sheet in with a little bit of olive oil (so they wont stick), and some salt and pepper. Bake them for 30 minutes or so (until they are slightly brown and soft) turning them over midway through. They are basicly baked sweet potatoe fries! :tu: