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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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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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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