/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.9800456]

Sister just stopped by and left me a big box of sweet potatoes. I don't really like these things. What are some off-label uses for them?

[Anonymous No.9800459]

>>9800456
bake/boil them and lightly salt them, tastes quite noice.

[Anonymous No.9800461]

>>9800456
Stand one on end for an enjoyable seat cushion.

[Anonymous No.9800463]

>>9800456
Throw them at your enemies.

[Anonymous No.9800466]

>>9800456
Sweet potato pie
Sweet potato fries
Mashed sweet potato with vanilla, cinnamon, a touch of brown sugar, butter/cream
Make them savory by adding herbs and salt and pepper (obviously still sweet too though)
Bake to bring out their natural sweetness or boil to tone it down

[Anonymous No.9800469]

>>9800463
You beat me to it

[Anonymous No.9800492]

>>9800456
>wrap in plastic wrap
>microwave 4 min
>salt n pepp
>eat

[Anonymous No.9800495]

OP, I'm making some sweet potato fries right now. I'll post a recipe in a minute along with a pic of my creation.

[Anonymous No.9800497]

I grate them and toast a brioche bun with olive oil, some eggs anyway you wish, oregano, garlic, parsley on the sweet potato. Eat that shit for breakfast.

[Anonymous No.9800498]

>>9800461
would you just end up with a sweet potato up your butt if you tried this?

[Anonymous No.9800500]

Found this recipe for Sweet Potato Wine.


6 lbs sweet potatoes
2 lbs granulated sugar
1 lb raisins
1 tsp. acid blend
1/2 tsp. pectic enzyme
1 gallon water
1 tsp yeast nutrient
wine yeast

Might be worth exploring.

[Anonymous No.9800501]

>>9800497
Grate and fry*

[Anonymous No.9800506]

>>9800456
If you can fry them as french fries, you can make a dessert fry by serving them with a cinnamon sugar whipped cream..which is as simple as it sounds.

[Anonymous No.9800509]

>>9800495
what the fuck is sweet potato fries ? are you actually retarded ?

[Anonymous No.9800524]

>>9800509
????????????? Swear down you are dumbbbbbbbbbbbbb

[Anonymous No.9800532]

>>9800498
Maybe...

[Anonymous No.9800537]

>>9800456
I made kabocha and roasted bell pepper curry sauce earlier this week, threw in a sweet potato as an afterthought, but it balanced out the flavors really well.
I threw in a couple of Thai chili peppers and blended it until it was smooth, thai basil would probably work really well with it too. Salt the fuck out of it, I usually eat it with some rice, if I make the sauce too watery, I throw in some diced potato to thicken it up.

[Anonymous No.9800713]

>>9800495
Ingredients and stuff:
sweet potatoes
olive oil
corn starch
parmesan cheese (grated)
garlic salt
paprika
chili powder
salt
pepper
ziplock bag
baking sheet

Step 1: Cut your sweet potatoes. Peel em and cut em into ~1/4" slices. Also preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

Step 2: Make your spice mix. For every 1 sweet potato you're using, use the following ratios of ingredients: 1 tbsp corn starch, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1/2 tsp garlic salt, 1/2 tsp paprika, 1/4 tsp chili powder, 1 tbsp parmesan cheese. Because I used 2 sweet potatoes to make my batch of fries, I used 2 tbsp corn starch, 1 tsp salt, etc. You can change the ratios if you want depending on your tastes, but those are the components of the seasoning.

Step 3: Dump your sliced sweet potatoes and seasoning mixture into a ziplock bag and shake those fuckers up until all the slices are evenly coated. For every 1 potato, add ~1.5 tbsp olive oil to the bag, and shake again. Use just enough oil to make sure that all the fries are coated.

Step 4: Arrange your fries on a baking sheet. Don't overcrowd them, because if they're too close to one another they won't get as crispy. If you have to use two sheets, go ahead. Put your fries in the oven, and set a timer for 15 minutes. When that timer goes off, take your fries out, flip them all over, and put them back in for another 10-15 minutes. Be sure to check on the fries towards the end of the cooking, since you don't want them to burn.

Step 5: After you turn off the oven, crack the door and let the fries sit there for another 10-15 minutes while the oven cools down. This will make your fries a bit crispier, which is important because, unlike regular potatoes, sweet potatoes are prone to get soft and mushy when you bake them. That's also what the corn starch was for, btw. A thin layer of corn starch gives the heat something to latch onto and makes the fries crispy.

Step 6: Eat. I served mine with ketchup.

[Anonymous No.9800739]

Chowder, pie, chocolate cake (excellent with stout/barley)

[Anonymous No.9800744]

Oh, and gnocchi. Totally worth the trouble.

[Anonymous No.9800764]

>>9800744
Oh man, I never even thought of making sweet potato gnocchi. That sounds like a great idea. What kind of sauce do you like with it?

[Anonymous No.9800794]

>>9800764
Because of the sweetness, they make for the perfect vehicle for acidic sauces so anything tomato or citrus based goes. Now it depends on what else you might want to include but I find that a simple citrus and coriander sauce works without fail. If you're so inclined, you can enhance it by making a bourbon, (blood) orange, cumin, and coriander bbq sauce (light gravy consistency) which pairs incredibly with any kind of gamey meat.

As an aside, also tried and tested: Dark chocolate and hazelnut sweet potato gnocchi served with a piping hot lemon zest and walnut custard. Your taste buds will explode with happiness.

[Anonymous No.9800836]

>>9800713
That actually sounds pretty damn good. You think that, rather than baking them, using an air fryer might work well?

[Anonymous No.9800904]

I think I'm a failure as a cook /ck/.
>Get a sweet potato cheap, never really tried them so I start with the basics, boil in for 15 mins
>Pick it up, hard as balls
>say yeah makes sense, bigger than normal taters
>Put back in for 5 more minutes
>Still hard
>repeat
>been boiling now for 40 something minutes
>Say fuck it, its done now
>Put on plate
>Cut
>eat
>Crunch
Burnt my tongue like a retard too.

[Anonymous No.9800921]

>>9800904
cut it up first god dammit. Increase the surface area.

[Anonymous No.9800925]

>boil um
>mash um
>let cool in the fridge uncovered to dry out
>add flour, salt, seasoning
>grease pie tin
>make sweet potato crush

Now you have a great quiche or pie crust

[Anonymous No.9801042]

>>9800921
Yeah I really should've but I was afraid to overcook it.

Turned out the other way.

[Anonymous No.9801065]

Fries.

[Anonymous No.9801226]

>>9800836
Don't see why not. They both use hot air.

[Anonymous No.9801938]

Wrap in bacon

[Anonymous No.9802124]

>>9800456
The nips just roast them whole, butter the outside, and eat it out of a brown paper bag like an apple. Delicious actually, the salty butter goes great with the sweetness of the potato.

[Anonymous No.9802568]

>>9800456
I'm not saying you should do this with your whole box of sweet potatoes but I was preparing food one day and thought I would be funny if I took a bite out of a raw one with the skin peeled.
They taste like really big carrots but have a texture slightly similar to that of jicama.

[Anonymous No.9803407]

>>9800456
There's a lot of good vegetarian curry recipes out there that call for sweet potatoes.

[Anonymous No.9803418]

boil em mash em stick em in a stew

[Anonymous No.9803420]

>>9800456
First of all, those are yams and not sweet potatoes.
Second of all, cook them a you would with a baked potato

[Anonymous No.9803426]

>>9800456
How can you not like sweet potatoes? Bake them, split them open, add butter and cinnamon, and just a little brown sugar. 10/10 every time.

>>9800492
This is how plebs who don’t know what they’re doing eat sweet potatoes.

[Anonymous No.9804548]

>>9803420

[Anonymous No.9804551]

>>9800456
If you don' t like them, why did you take them?

[Anonymous No.9804590]

>>9804551
More like they were offloaded despite my protests. Sis and her fiancee had a ton left over from Thanksgiving and didn't want them to go to waste. Not exactly in a position to be turning down free food anyway.

[Anonymous No.9804648]

>>9800456
Slice them up and bake with a sprinkle of salt to the point where they've dried up and have started turning a light brown. Like crack to me

[Anonymous No.9804715]

>>9800456
sweet potatoes are the most underrated food.
also aren't mashed sweet potatoes more popular

[Anonymous No.9804736]

Sweet potatoes are one of those foods that I can't believe exist in nature. I can literally throw it in the oven, and with no seasoning or skill at all I can have a relatively healthy snack that's fucking delicious. God damn, sweet potatoes are good. Kind of reminds me of pumpkin pie.
on a side note russet potatoes fucking suck. I don't know why they're so popular.

[Anonymous No.9804809]

Cut a few slices and ate them raw. Pretty good, actually. Yes, I think I can do something with this using condensed milk or maple with half-and-half. Will have to do some experimenting.

[Anonymous No.9805025]

Make a batter from flour and beer, plus some paprika. Cut your sweet potatoes into slices, dip them in the batter, deep fry in oil at 350F for about a minute and a half. Make some tasty dips to go with it, I use hoisin + soy sauce

[Anonymous No.9805050]

>>9800456
Sweet potato mash goes well with pork. Make fries out of them, or just bake them for a good and healthy snack that takes hardly any effort. If you do want to go off on a limb, you can make cake out of them.

[Anonymous No.9805485]

>>9800497
This sounds fantastic. How long do you fry them for?

[Anonymous No.9806181]

>>9800456
Use them as ammo for a potato cannon

[Anonymous No.9806221]

>>9800794
please tell me more about how you did this, I need to know

[Anonymous No.9806294]

>>9800456
Make it into soup. I like to make a root veg soup with Sweet Potato, Carrot, and Parsnips.

[Anonymous No.9806333]

>>9800509
Lmao yurofag literally kill yourself

[Anonymous No.9806387]

use them as clubs and start hitting people

[Anonymous No.9806789]

>>9804548
All yams are sweet potatoes. Not all sweet potatoes are yams.

This is like posting a russet and labeling it "potato" and a yukon gold and labeling it "yukon gold" as if it's an entirely separate species.

[Anonymous No.9806860]

>>9800498

[Anonymous No.9806868]

>>9800500
Hmmm. Anyone ever tried sweet potato wine? Im interested.

[Anonymous No.9807170]

>>9806789