Mistakes Everyone Makes When Cooking Sweet Potatoes
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- Once relegated to only being a Thanksgiving side dish or in a casserole at the local potluck, sweet potatoes have seen a huge boost in popularity over the past few years. Sweet potato fries and other variations on this tasty tuber have become far more prevalent at restaurants and on dinner tables, at least in part due to the belief that they have a greater health value than regular potatoes.
But you may not be getting all the health value you could out of your sweet potatoes, or worse, you may be making some incorrect choices when cooking, storing or choosing them. Avoid these mistakes everyone makes when cooking sweet potatoes.
#Mistakes #Cooking #SweetPotatoes
Not scrubbing | 0:00
Storing them improperly | 1:03
Using different varieties interchangeably | 1:50
Savory dishes only | 2:48
Too much oil | 3:37
Too much sugar | 4:29
Tossing out the skins | 5:21
Boiling them | 6:19
Blemished or bruised | 6:48
Too old | 7:33
Assuming they're healthy | 8:15
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I cook them whole (skin pierced) at 400 F for 45-60 minutes, depending on size. The high heat breaks down the tough fibers, so the interiors are as smooth and creamy as a soufflé.
There's no point in piercing the skin. Freeze them for 1-2 hours, then cook at 450F for 90-120 minutes.
I cook them for 3 hours. On 375. The longer they cook the more the starches break down into suger.
Exactly---and I don't even bother with washing and scrubbing the skin at all (I purchase organic)
no wonder my sweet potatoes always taste flavorless i always cook them for 45 minutes only at 340F 😫
So you said sweet potatoes can last notoriously ( complete malapropism) long, then you go on to say they only last a month, well that's BS.
its another amazing food item, sweet potatoes can be traced back to 750bc in Peru, but it takes modern day Americans to tell us and the rest of the world how were storing, preping, cooking and eating them wrong. Bla bla bla
My two cents to speeding up the cooking process:
Poke a few times with a fork, pop in the microwave for a couple of min. (depending on the size) before cooking in the oven. Cuts the cooking time in half and doesn’t effect the flavor! 😁😁
thank you for the tip!
I do that & also with white potatoes
yes! seriously remember the poking part though i have to double check everytime just incase
Tops thanks
I microwave mine also, I actually do several at a time also with a little bit of water in the bottom of the container. . I also boil about 6 or so sweet potatoes using my portable induction cooktop,it heat up unbelievably fast and cook time is in a flash ( salting the water well seasons the whole potato really well) Much Love to all the potato heads! 🥔🍠 From Augusta Georgia ❤️🇺🇸
Yes my father would grow sweet potatoes on our homestead and to keep them in the back of home at the beginning of the rows of garden he would dig holes and put the sweet potatoes in the holes, cover with pine straw and then cover dirt on top of that. (Called Banks) I remember every time we needed potatoes my mom would say go to the bank and get some potatoes. 😊😊. How I miss those days. Thanks for sharing. Peace and Love ❤️
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I'm definitely a fan of sweet potato and will be growing them.
Good natural growing!
What is pine straw? The needles?
@@barbaramilbradt2188 yes, but down south we always called it straw 😀
@@Oracabessa562 OK, thank you!
If your sweet potato starts sprouting put in the ground or a pot. The greens are very healthy cooked like spinach. Makes a pretty house plant too.
THANK YOU FOR AN OLD MEMORY...I forgot! HUGS!
THNX! I'LL TRY THAT. I DIDN'T KNOW. 🌺✌️💚🌺
But they have to be organic to grow. In non organic, an anti sprouting chemical is put on them.
Yes! The leaves are delicious…..but,don’t eat the regular potato leaves…..Toxic!
@@toneenorman2135 True!
I learned this from a NY Times article. Freeze the sweets for about 45 minutes, then bake at 375 until the skin gets paper-y. Don't poke holes ! The ice crystals will melt, creating steam inside the potato. Soft, fluffy, the best texture. 👍🏻
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I love sweet potatoes, I've been liking it best microwaved, then scooping it out and adding butter, and salt. Served with pork chops or loin. YUM!!
Add some cinnamon and nutmeg for a little change up.
I do sometimes, mainly for special meals. Thanx fir the reminder to use more often!
Microwave kills food dead dead dead.
I have boiling or microwaving them for the past couple of weeks as a night snack and got absolutely hooked. Last night i bought 2 kilos of some thin and long sweet potatoes with white yellowish inside. I microwaved them as usual and they were dry and awful
Potatoes,sweet potatoes are great baked right and with the right ingredients you will have a winner.
Best way I've ever done them is how my grandma did. In the oven low and a few hours. It seems to make them have the taste intensified.
Dawn Walker
Agree. I also baked them before I use them for pies. I never boil them, takes that deliciousness away.
@@gailmiller6333It seems to me to that it does take the taste away.
That does sound good.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 We've always done them like that. Baked regular potatoes to. I never heard of it causing Alzheimer's.
I WOULD LIKE TO TRY THIS METHOD. CAN YOU LET US KNOW WHAT TEMPERATURE THE OVEN WAS SET AT FOR USING THIS COOKING METHOD?
My father would dig a hole in the back yard, put the sweet potatoes in it and cover it with pine straw. They would last all winter . We would have sweet potato mash (think grits) every morning.
Mix the sweet spuds with peanut butter, oats, flax and honey; roll into little balls and freeze. Then dip the frozen balls in dark chocolate. Yum!
Mahalo nui that sound healthy and Onolious 😋
Clean, oil and wrap in foil individually. They turn out moist and not stringy. You don't need to add a thing to them. Yum!
Had to watch cuz obsessed with sweet potatoes all kinds, i usually bake a bunch when having for dinner and xtra ones for mashed another day just heat and peel then mash, this was great video 👍
I have sweet potatoes for breakfast every morning. I peal off their skin with a knife and then wash them before I put them in the rice cooker. It just takes around 20 minutes to boil them thoroughly in it. Easy and simple. As a big fan of cheese, I like to put a slice of cheese on top of sweet potatoes before eating. The sweet potatoes melts the cheese in the same way as the burger does it. What a delicious and healthy meal!
I make sure they look clean and buy the ones that seem heavy for their size. Don't oil, salt, pierce or wrap them. Bake at 350-400 until soft. Skin peels off easily. Taste very sweet and creamy, even without butter.
I actually boil,bake or microwave mine,add butter,salt and when they are done I can literally eat the skin along with the yummy sweet potato. ( Washing and cutting off the inedible parts)😋🍠
Clean, Grease jacket with Crisco and bake at 325 degrees 1 hour...Yum Yum eat the jacket too..Best part
Love, love, sweet potatoes,YUMMY, thanks for info
I add some pineapple chunks and peach slices to my sweet potatoes instead of marshmallows. So much tastier. And healthier.
Sounds good. I've added pineapple too & it's delicious. Modt commercial marshmallows aren't as good or gooey when cooked as they used to be, decades ago. I stopped buying them about 30 yrs ago.
You can make your own if you want good ones.
Thank you for the education....
I love to mix them with russet potatoes. Chop the sweet potato's and the russet potatoes in chunks put them in a bowl with some olive oil add your seasonings (whatever you like) onion,garlic powder,salt Italian seasoning,pepper I've even added the grill mates seasoning coat the potatoes with the seasoning add some onions and green peppers then put them in a roasting pan add some butter and let them cook covered until tender then take the cover off and let them brown a little. This is sooooo 😋
I must have these soon!
I like baked and fried sweet potatoes (fry cut style).
Appreciate this; thank you.
It's so simple to bake them.Just wash them and dry them well, coat and rub the skins with a layer of canola or preferably vegetable oil (don't overdo it!) And bake like you would a regular potato,with no foil wrap though.About 350° for an hour.Pirce with a fork to check for doneness. When soft inside.Open and add your butter..excellent! And very good for digestion.I give my dogs sweet potato when they have issue with their stomach .
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Yes! I put something savory such as feta cheese on top and yum!
Usually I like them roasted, so today I'm going to try my new toaster oven. We'll see how it works. Worked ok on regular potatoes, and a few days ago I used it to roast a whole lot of those little tiny potatoes. Yum. On to my experiment. They are the "Japanese" sweet potatoes, and kind of plump. Here goes!
Bake sweet potatoes with bacon, brown sugar and a touch of nutmeg...HEAVEN
Love sweet potatoes anytime, any color, any way I cook them.
I was nice to see Ross from the tv show Friends💜😇💚
Try brown sugar on your tara II!
I use sweet potato for all pumpkin recipes. Sweet potato cobbler is my fav.
I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE SUCH A COBBLER. WOULD YOU MIND POSTING THE RECIPE? THANK YOU.
I always wash mine in the sink with soap and water. And on the plate, l only add ground cinnamon. Also, l eat the skins too.
I love leftover sweet potatoes. I melt Blue Bonnet margarine & brown sugar in a frying pan & slice cooked sweet potatoes about 1/4 inch thick in it. Turn them over a few times & Very lightly brown them. I've just started warming slices of ham in the pan also. They are sweet & delicious.
Why bother waiting for an hour when pan frying is delicious and quicker for hungry family ( esp. to change the kids obsession for plain fries…)
"The GI of sweet potatoes can vary depending on how you prepare them.
Boiling sweet potatoes gives them a lower GI compared to roasting them."
I would love to absorb some of that natural sweetness...YIKS
My favorite way to cook sweet potatoes is roasted. Peeled and cut into quarters, add butter, slight sprinkle of sugar, salt and pepper.
My “auntie” Gwen (Not a blood relative, but definitely family) made them that way.
Why add sugar?
so american.
The commenter said slight sprinkle of sugar, maybe it crisps up on the outside.
No need to demonize someone's recipe!
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@@juneshannon8074 I was wondering about the sugar myself, I didn't see you demonizing anyone 😁 I love adding a good dose of real butter and a bit of Himalayan pink sea salt 😋👍
I've been peeling them after boiling, but I probably should leave the skins on next time. Thanks! I only use Okinawan purple potatoes (from Dan Buettner's Live to 100).
Wrapped in non-stick foil (avoids aluminum exposure) and baked at about 350 for 1.5 hours
They will be dripping with juice, tender, and sweet when ready! You won't need a thing besides your fork, well maybe some cinnamon!
love sweet potatoes 🥔
Slice them thin and lay them in a very hot thin layer of lard. That will make them very crisp indeed. YUM.
I also rub the potato with oil and wrap it in foil to bake
Oh no! When you wrap any potato in foil, you're steaming it, not baking it. Just rub potatoes with oil, place on a baking sheet and bake. NO FOIL!
@@nascar88gyrl why is steaming a potato wrong? I have eaten regular potatoes both ways and haven't noticed a difference.
One large sweet potato .. wash well, pierce well, microwave directly on turntable 9 min +/_ depending on microwave and size of potato, split and serve with butter or other quality fat in order to get full benefit of fat-soluble vitamins, and perhaps a little black pepper for added flavor and to aid digestion. Consume entire potato with skin for greatest nutritional benefit. (same with white baked potato). Two people may share one large potato while a second potato cooks. I have never tried cooking more than one large potato at a time in microwave; but two small to medium might work just fine. As for running regular oven for potato, I would only consider when using oven for something else at same time, such as meatloaf or chicken. I never used to eat the sweet potato skin but, after learning so much nutrition is LOST by not eating skin, I learned to eat potato skin and love it and since would not dream of wasting so much as a bite :)
I love sweet potatoes. Baked with butter, salt and pepper.
Could i know whether it is safe to consume sweet potatoe with some patches of greenish colour on the yellow specie. Thank u for your kind attention. With much appreciation, Rena
Cut into cubes with carrots same size as sweet potatoes,add garlic sections cut in half and grated ginger,molasses or a wee bit of honey. Stir fry in cast iron skillet hot and quickly. Pour into ceramic plate or bowl. Couple rings of thin cut vidalia onions raw. Cover with pan lid for 10 minutes then Bonapetite
A full 3 minutes of care and storage before any cooking is mentioned.
I use a steamer to cook them come out perfect
I eat u’ala ( sweet potato) throughout the week I rub it with coconut oil, it’s a great breakfast, use creative ideas “ mea ai makai no” 😋
I take the oven-roasted sweet potato and add coconut oil (instead of butter) and cinnamon. It doesn't take much coconut oil for flavor.
Today is Cook a Sweet Potato Day! Thank you for sharing this sweet potato video. I'll be celebrating on my channel with a new sweet potato recipe. Thank you for sharing! #CookASweetPotatoDay
I just love sweet potatoes
These garnet sweet potatoes were bred to be sweeter that I cannot stand the taste. Even winter squashes seem too sweet. I prefer the less sweet root vegetables such as taro and potatoes.
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Sweet potatoe with honey butter with cinnamon, without brown sugar
You aren't lying about too much sugar. I love sweet potatoes baked plain, and just with butter. I eat it like a baked potato and eat the skin. Sweet potato casserole is horrible. Usually canned sweet potatoes are used, which already have had sugar added, then lots of sugar added to that. It's not a vegetable at that point, it's a dessert, like pudding.
I totally agree with your sweet potato analogy!
I just ate sweet pots cooked in air fryer and they were delicious. Almost like a dessert. I cant imagine adding sugar. Just a little salt and ghee. I am so amazed at the air fryer we have. It has opened up our dinners to food i never cooked before. Amazing device.
Wonderful…..rub with olive oil, salt and pepper ,wrap in foil and slow bake!
No foil! It steams the potato. Doesn't bake it properly.
Not good using aluminium foil full stop....
Great video! What is the difference between a sweet potato and a yam?
I think it's like "what is the difference between a carrot and a radish?" They are completely different plants with different characteristics. You can look it up for more detailed info.
In the U.S., none, unless you're visiting a specialty market that has true yams. What is commonly sold as a yam in the U.S. is actually just an orange sweet potato. If you do find some true yams, you are unlikely to mistake them for sweet potatoes, as they have a brown bark-like skin on them, usually have white flesh (though there are other colors), aren't the same shape, and are usually larger in size.
i just wash and bake with air fry 👍😀❤️
Does anyone have comments about slo-cooking? I've tried it twice. The first time was a colossal failure and I had to throw out the entire pot. The second was a rousing success.
Don't do anything, wash and throw in an air fryer, and set the temperature to 400 f. Depending on the size it cooks in 30 to 40 minutes.
Okinawan sweet potatoes are best! sooo sweet!
Sweet Potatoes Are Very Tasty.
I like sweet potatoes and your information was very helpful can you do one on strawberries please are they fattening so I’m on a diet and I have I have some sweet potatoes and I do like them I did have too many phone because the sugar I know it’s a natural sugar but is it fattening sweet potato can you tell us in your next one you do thank you very much
If you don't wrap ur SP in foil, remember that will leak on bottom of oven
Put an oven liner or put on cookie sheet
I did that for years until I decided to put one into a pyrex bread pan with a small piece of parchment underneath 375 for about 1-1/2 hr. I do prick the skin. Try it. Works EVERY time.
Sweet potatoes shouldn't spoil as fast as described in this video. I grow them in my garden, and they keep for several months to a year at room temperature, though they do gradually become lighter as they begin to dry out towards the end of that period.
My only comment is…. DUH! Not much groundbreaking info here. But, yes, sweet potatoes are wonderful!
Wash them, wrap in paper towel, run under faucet, microwave for 5-6 minutes. Eat peeling and all.
I did not like sweet potatoes for years because they were ususlly candied and covered with marshmallows. I would scrape the marshmallows off.
Well depending on the size? I'd say put them in the broiler for 35, 40, 45 depending how they look.
"Baking sweet potatoes can also cause an 80% drop in vitamin A levels, twice as much as boiling.
Therefore, from a nutritional standpoint, boiling rather than baking should be recommended for cooking sweet potato."
Boiling sweet potatoes are the best way to cook them.
I put them in my microwave, and undercook them. Delicious...!!....🤪🤪
I literally just made some sweet potatoes 😳
They do last for months and months at room temp. We store ours in the basement.
if you wrap the potato in aluminum foil you get aluminum leach in the potato. is that the extra nutrient you suggest. how important is aluminum for your body?
I make sweet potatoes for the family at Thanksgiving & Christmas. After I boil the sweet potatoes I start to peel them and there are a bunch of strings in the sweet potatos that I have to pull out. I can’t keep up with all the strings. I mash the sweet potatoes with the potato masher and it takes out some of the strings but not all. What is causing all the strings in the sweet potatoes???
The 2 main reasons for this tend to be 1.) These "strings" can come from growing a potato in soil that is too fertile. The potato is a root and roots store nutrients. Grown in soil that is too fertile, sweet potato vines will grow fast and big and the result is long stringy potatoes).
2.) Sweet potatoes stored at temperatures above 60 degrees Fahrenheit will shrivel and become dry and stringy. Sweet potatoes may develop an off-flavor and the flesh may become discolored when stored at temperatures below 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
I love eating sweet potato
5% mistakes everyone makes when cooking sweet potatoes. Could have gotten more hits by titling " Sweet potato screaming death from mishandling! "
Great info and pictures but the narrative is too fast - slow down a bit please. :-D
THANK YOU FOR THE EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION SINCERELY YOUR'S CHARLETNEWTON
I wrap them up individually in saran wrap and they last so much longer, no more dried up sweet potato's.
Sweet potato pie!!!! Better than pumpkin. Honest! Sweet potato wedges. 😋
Roast oiled sweet potatoes till soft. Skins slip off easily. Mash with cinnamon, butter and real maple syrup to taste. Delicious!
I am sure they are delicious that way, however, you might as well eat candy. Sorry to say that, but try them without the sugar, you might be surprised.
Yall should try the white Sweet potato
I love Alabama Reds. Eating ANY kind of potato are long gone days in the past for me, I regretfully say.
Back years ago, when you baked a sweet potato some of the sweet juice would actually run out of the potato. The potato was actually sweet! The ones today are a far cry from the old varities. You have to add butter, cinnamon, sugar or whatever to liven the up a bit. Todays commercially grown vegetables pretty much suck. Problem is that most folks who grew up without a gardening background in these later years don't realize what has been lost in the new plant varites. Most of what were bred for longer shelf life or resistance to insects and so on. Flavor was not a priority.
I love sweet potato; boiled with skin on, roasted, fried covered with rice flour, or boiled, dried in the sun. All very nice, but must be white flesh, pink outer skin. My parents grew them in East Africa.
My favorite way is to scrub the skins with a veggie brush in a bowl of water, & then a quick rinse under the faucet.
Then I rub the skins with a bit of a good oil, like Olive or Avocado, & bake them, a few at a time, with space in between, in a baking pan. I don't pierce them, as I want to retain their moisture which helps the baking process. This way, I enjoy eating their crispy skins.
In a 425° oven, they take about an hour, depending on size.
For people who can't eat sugar, I've heard it helps to cube & boil them, but they seem to lose a lot of flavor. The texture of boiled cubes is nothing like the soft mushy sweet baked ones.
The cubed form can be cooked in a home made soup, so nutrients are not lost, or in a curried lentil dish, simmered in coconut milk until all are soft.
BTW - they're not in the potato family & they're not yams either.
So what are they? They need a new, better name!
You were on a pretty good roll there until you claimed them not to be part of the potato or yam family. Sometimes you just need to leave a good thing alone 🤫😐
@@mariap.thisislife8735 It's true. Sweet potatoes & any type of potatoes are not related. Also, Yams aren't in either of those families.
Morning glory family
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Brown sugar and marshmallows fluff top. Lol.
marshmallows make 'em even more yummy!!!!
I cut a SP in half and put it in a crock pot with 3 tsp of water after breakfast and it's ready by lunch, too simple!
how dare you say that potatoes and sweet potatoes have equivalent nutritional content! Sweet potatoes have significantly higher content of vitamin A
What about cooking them in the microwave?
There isn't a problem with that. That is what I do all the time. Wash them properly, place on a plate and put in microwave for 6-8 minutes according to the size. You can also eat the skin. Very delicious for breakfast with scrambled eggs.
Sweet potatoes are good just like regular potatoes
Umm okay, well at Kroger all we got is the orange ones.
One of my dogs won't eat any other treat but the chicken wrapped sweet potatoes.
Smart dog! Yummy treat! Nice mom!
My take on a mistake. Applying a brown sugar glaze on sweet potatos! LIke sprinkling sugar on ice cream. Sweet potatos are by definition, SWEET! Why the glaze??
I tried to eat sweet potatoes several times. but also as a mashed version with butter and milk, i can't get the stuff down.
Not for everyone but I’d never add milk to them mashed. They’re not like white potatoes that way.
try french fries.
@Heloise O'Byrne - ok, I will give them a last chance...
I hate them with the only exception being Okinawan purple sweet potatoes cooked with a little orange juice & just a few white raisins. A little cardamom doesn't hurt either.
add brown sugar or honey with butter....yum
sweet potatoes are not as tasty as they were when I was growing up. Must be why cooks started over doing the marshmallow casseroles
Unless you're over 80, cooks were over doing the marshmallow casseroles before you were born.
Seeing lots of adding of butter and other ingredients to this perfectly delicious food. Why????????
That's my question too. Nothing needed to be added. All those additives just take away the lovely flavor. Keep it natural, sweet and delicious. One of the good things about sweet potato, it is delicious for breakfast with scrambled eggs and a cup of mint tea. I cook my sweet potato in the microwave on six to eight minutes or a little more if it's big.
@@yolandalindsey5765 yep I will oftentimes include baked sweet potato with my brown rice/lentil/yogurt/kimchi "brunch"
@@christinebadostain6887 I haven't tried it with yogurt, but with lentils and brown rice.
@@yolandalindsey5765 it is a good foil to the other spicy ( I pack my rice/lentil with spices) foods. Oh yeah and I also include qunoa most of the time. I guess it is what they call a "buddha bowl"
Lmfao that's how cooking works
I thought the skins were not supposed to be eaten... ☠️
Just like regular potatoes 😀
I also enjoy something the hispanic community calls " batata ". It is almost white in color and not as sweet as yams or sweet potatoes. I add it to a stew, as one of its many vegetables. Jesus is Love
Is this the same as yucca?
Happy Cook - The answer is "no " . More like yams or sweet potatoes. I have experienced yucca more as an under-cooked white potato. Jesus is Love
Hmm sounds good. I will have to buy some and try. Gracias, muy amable.
Yes “ubhatata” is what we call it in Zulu here in South Africa 🇿🇦. It has a purple skin and whitish inside, I looove it😋
Does anyone know why every time i eat sweet potatoes i belch rotten eggs for 2 hours or more .I have not eaten eggs for days.
How could something which grows under ground have pesticide on it?
What? You think the ground is solid and never can soak through it?
wpl - their greens are above ground