Sweet potatoes, basic question

That's it GrandmaMoira knew they were better for you.

I used them last night for my fish pie topping, very tasty. Also on Cottage pie. Maybe add one small potato as firmer mash. They are better than potatoes less calorific I think! Unless anyone knows? They are great spirallized .

I make a delicious soup with some onions some carrots plenty sweet potatoes and a tin of tomatoes , teaspoon each Coriander ,paprika ,turmeric and plenty black pepper . I find the tomatoes take some of the sweetness out. I make a very large amount , whizz it with a hand blender , freeze some and it is lovely and warming of a winters day

One other thing about sweet potatoes is that they are better for you than ordinary potatoes - they have a lower GI than ordinary potatoes.

HildajenniJ, do you have your recipe for fish curry that you might share? My first taste if curry was a fish curry that my future MIL made. She learned to cook in India, her kitchen was a nightmare, but boy could she cook ?

Just made butternut squash and sweet potato soup and have added some chopped chorizo as a bit of an experiment! Smells wonderful but haven't tasted yet. Tegan, I too am using a lot of turmeric and as well as taking it with oil, freshly ground black pepper is also recommended.

I peel them and cut them into cubes to put in curries, they add a sweetness that curry sometimes needs. By the way, the fish curry was delicious.

I bake them in their skins and serve with lime juice and yoghurt. Or sometimes peel and mash and serve with jerked chicken.

tegan no need to peel butternut - baked or roasted the peel becomes really thin (I eat it) or if you halve them and scoop the pips out, just eat it out of the skin.

They are obviously not to everyone's taste!

Did you know that they bake them with a marshmallow topping in the States for Thanksgiving lunch?

My final say on sweet potatoes (only the red, Morries didn't have any white) - really not to my taste. Boiled them, mashed them, used some of the mash to form potato cakes,chipped them, roasted as wedgies,par-boiled and thinly sliced then used as a pasta alternative in a bake..
And I don't like their taste. That sweetness comes through, no matter how I season them.
So they're on my (small) list of foods to walk on by.
Mind you, with just 3 potatoes to play with, I did really well?
Still think I'd have been better using them with a Mr.Potato Head kit.
Less washing up, for one thing.

They also taste good in corned beef hash. I think they need black pepper to bring out their flavour if you are boiling or roasting them.

Auntie Betty frozen sweet potato chips are really tasty and gluten free.

sweet potatoes are very yummy. I love them roasted, but also good boiled and mashed with a knob of butter melted through. I have not seen the white ones, they sound delicious.

Bought a bag from Sainsburys today and just had some baked and mashed with butter. The S.O. he did do a recipe with them once using onions and sausages, but I'd forgotten about it. Made a nice change; reminded me a bit of butternut squash [but much easier to peel].

tegan I've got to mail my bro. In America tomorrow. When I tell him I've been watching 2hrs of tv with no-one speaking, well, apart from 'thank you' or 'nice day today' as passengers get on the bus and no interruptions every 3mns or so for ads, he'll be green with envy. We were watching the Olympics together one day and while I was enthusing about the archery and the gymnastics, he was only seeing anything the US were in (and then only when there was a chance they were going to do well, and, of course, all those ads...) we've so much to thank Auntie Beeb for.

BlueBelle, thanks for mentioning the white ones. I noticed them for sale recently for the first time but already have a couple of the orange ones to use up, so I exercised restraint. If I'd known they are chestnut-like, I'd have been straight in there!

We watched the Yorkshire bus programme the other night. The S.O. was really looking forward to it but after a while he said 'I need a commentary'. Like the sleigh ride programme that was on a while back they're very good is you suffer from insomnia....Mind you, we did both wake up with a jolt when we recognised Richmond and shouted 'we were there'..

Ok then, I'm now going to buy2 sweet potatoes from Morries on Thursday, one of each colour and I like chestnuts. Gosh, my life's getting exciting

I sometimes combine sweet and white potatoes, mashed together for a firmer mash.

Baked in their jackets are ok, but do prefer white ones for that.

Have you tried the white sweet potatoes as opposed to the red/orange ones I prefer them so much they are not so mushy firmer and taste like chestnuts

Many thanks Alishka am going to try these tomorrow when family are about, otherwise have a feeling I shall probably eat too many on my own, yes England is absolutely beautiful

So sorry, those that have liked my rock cakes. I'm sitting here, watching tele, and suddenly thought ive forgotten the Rosemary! so, a late amendment, I add chopped fresh rosemary from my bush in the garden to the other ingredients before binding it all with the butter. The parsley I also put in last time was an extra ingredient, just because it was there, but the Rosemary is a constant.
Sorry

Now back to watching the country bus driving across the Yorkshire dales on bbc4. A treat I've been promising myself. Isn't England beautiful?

Thank you Alishka, I'll give that a go.

I love sweet potatoes - and they're extremely yummy in a curry. I think they don't count as carbs, so I use them all the time instead of ordinary potatoes. Sweet potato wedges take a lot less time to cook than potato wedges.

Baked sweet potato with sour cream are great (you don't have to peel them the peel comes off once they're baked).