Love my sweet potatoes but I’m looking for other things to do with them other than just baking them. I understand boiling them won’t turn the starches to sugars though so I’m wondering if this is any good. I was thinking of doing some sort of mashed sweet potato thing, so also trying to figure out what to add to them.
Also I see people in the Caribbean boiling sweet potatoes, but it’s usually the harder white kind. I’d be boiling the softer orange kind. I’m wondering if it’s still possible to boil that type.
I’ve made mashed sweet potatoes before. Idk anything about starches and sugars but it was good. May have been yams, though.
Idk about the nutritional aspects of it but throwing sweet potato whole into a slow cooker on low for like 6 hours or so gives you these really delicious and complex sorta nutty sweet potatoes at the end.
This also works really well with regular potatoes too.
Obviously you don’t end up with crispy or crunchy bits like you would from doing it in a pan or in the oven, although if you reduce the slow cooker time somewhat (depending on the side of the sweet potatoes used) you can throw them into the oven at the end to get them to crisp up.
(Oh, and this is also a really good way of doing potato au gratin too - you don’t need to be precise with your slices of potato at all and thicker slices actually hold up better. It’s almost a different dish and tbh I like it with a ton more onion this way compared to the normal way too.)
I tried boiling the orange coloured sweet potatoes and while it’s okay, I find that baking it is so much better.
Yes, then you drain and serve with some fat. My fav is to cut them into stick shapes, soak for an hour then drain, use yaji spice powder to season and then airfry them.
Personally kinda hate boiling sweet potatoes, however my girlfriend loves mashed sweet potatoes. However the recipes I’ve seen in restaurants for mashed sweet potatoes all include a few yellow potatoes for texture.
Yeah totally. I boil them with the skin on, then mash with a little butter, salt, herbs and spices. Smoked paprika, cumin and black pepper is good. As a bonus you can add flour to the leftovers and make patty type things for frying too.
