Recipes to enjoy the benefits of Sweet Potato

Sweet potato is a tuber that often is overlooked: It is not as popular as the potato but is excellent both as an ingredient in your kitchen and as part of a healthy diet. Among some of its health benefits, it is very good for avoiding liver disease and arthritis, it helps improve the health of our skin as it is good source of antioxidants and it contains vitamin A and C, which are both excellent sources of energy.

You can prepare many dishes with sweet potatoes, including soups, stews, appetisers or desserts: It is a healthy and versatile ingredient which is delicious and very easy to obtain.

Ingredients

• 1/2 chicken
• 2 litres of Water
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1/2 onion
• 2 sweet potatoes
• 1 corn
• 1 squash
• 2 carrots
• 1 potato
• 1 courgette (zucchini)
• Salt and Pepper (sufficient amount)
• 3 tbsp. of freshly chopped Coriander (Cilantro)

Preparation

1. Wash the chicken, cut it into pieces and reserve.
2. Place the peeled and diced sweet potato and onion in a pot to cook.
3. Add water and corn cut into thick slices.
4. When the stock begins to boil, lower the temperature and simmer for about an hour until all the ingredients are cooked.
5. Chop the squash, carrots, potatoes and courgette (zucchini) into medium cubes.
6. Add the carrots and chicken to the soup.
7. Then add the squash, potatoes and courgette (zucchini). Simmer over a low heat and season with salt and pepper.
8. Cook until both the vegetables and chicken are cooked.
9. Before serving, add a sprinkling of chopped coriander (cilantro) to flavor the soup.
10. Serve with a little sour cream and chopped onions.

Ingredients

• 1 kg. of sweet potato
• 1 tbsp. Of Lemon zest
• 3 tbsp. of Lemon juice
• 4 cups of water
• 3 cups of sugar
• 1/2 cup of Icing sugar

Preparation

1. Cook the sweet potatoes in a pressure cooker with half of the water: It is not necessary to peel or cut them. You can also bake the sweet potatoes if you prefer.
2. Drain the potatoes, remove the pulp and pass through a sieve or food mill to obtain a fine paste.
3. Make a syrup with sugar and the remaining water, mixing until the syrup has a thick consistency.
4. Mix sweet potatoes with lemon zest and lemon juice.
5. Add the sugar syrup to the sweet potato and mix well to obtain a uniform consistency and prevent lumps.
6. Return to the heat and cook the mixture, stirring constantly with a wooden spatula until you can see the bottom of the pan, then remove the preparation.
7. Pour the mixture into a pan or bowl and spread evenly. Leave to cool.
8. Form balls or cylinders with the sweet potato mixture and let them stand on waxed paper.
9. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and wrap in waxed paper to serve or give as gifts.

Ingredients

• 2 sweet potatoes
• 1 Potato or fries
• 4 eggs
• 1 stick of celery
• 1/2 onion
• 1/2 cup of mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup of sour cream
• 1 tsp. of mustard
• Salt and Pepper (sufficient amount)

Preparation

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1. Peel and chop both types of potatoes into small or regular chunks.
2. Cook them with a little salt .
3. Drain until smooth and set aside.
4. Cook the eggs in boiling water until firm  Allow to cool and remove the shell.
5. Chop the onion and celery into thin slices.
6. Mix all ingredients with mayonnaise, cream and season with salt and pepper.

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6 Reviews about Recipes to enjoy the benefits of Sweet Potato

1. 
   Emily Grace B on

   25/01/2016

   Unless they are made into crispy potato chips or wedges, I am really not a big fan of the sweet potato: The texture is horrible! No doubt it has many healthy benefits, however I am sure these vitamins and minerals can be found in other food sources too! Perhaps I would consider the soup though... ;-)

   
   

2. 
   Stacy on

   11/07/2014

   Aaah! The sweet potato salad looks great!! We eat sweet potatoes all the time, and I'm definitely on the lookout for more recipes. We have two favorites though: 1)diced beets and sweet potatoes drizzled with olive oil and salt, and baked until tender. mmm. a definite go-to. 2)Diced sweet potatoes with just a touch of olive oil, sprinkled with Thyme, salt, and parmesean cheese, baked again until tender. This is my current favorite...we've actually got it in the over as we speak!!

   
   

3. 
   Anna on

   10/03/2014

   I prepare a recipe that is pretty nice, they are some tortillas made with sweet potato and filled with cheese, sautéed in a skillet, with some oil, they are pretty delicious and other thing you can do is frying slices of sweet potato and make your own healthy snack, that's the way I consume this plant

   
   

4. 
   Allison on

   07/03/2014

   The only person I know that loves sweet potato is my grandma and she knows so many recipes with it, or she prepares the common recipes with potato or things like that but using the sweet potato as main ingredient, the next time I visit her I'll ask her for some recipes and I will share with u

   
   

   • 
     vivian on

     23/06/2014

     maybe you should try it too! it is pretty nice once you find a recipe that you enjoy, like mashed sweet potato or puree, or even tortillas!

     
     

5. 
   Paul on

   03/03/2014

   This is an ingredient that most people do not enjoy and this can be understood but maybe it is because they have not tasted the variety of dishes that can be made with this indredient, this is very bad because you could learn something new and taste something you never have tasted.

   
   

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