Tips for Cooking Sweet Potato Recipes

Sweet potato (ipornea batatas) or camote is a crop plant whose large, starchy, sweet tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots can be eaten as greens.
Besides simple starches, sweet potatoes are rich in complex carbohydrates. Considering fiber content, complex carbohydrates, protein, vitamin A and C, iron, calcium, the sweet potatoes ranked highest in nutritional value.

Sweet potatoes varieties with dark orange flesh have more beta carotene than those with light colored flesh and their increased cultivation is being encouraged in some parts of the Philippines where vitamin A deficiency is quite a problem.

Despite the name "sweet", it may be a beneficial food for diabetics, as preliminary studies on animals have revealed that it helps to stabilize blood sugar levels and top lower insulin resistance. Oprah Winfrey advocates increased potato consumption of sweet potatoes both for their health benefits and because of their importance in traditional Southern cuisine.

Stewed Sweet Potatoes

Peel a pound of sweet potatoes and cut in large cubes.
Bring to boil 1/2 cup plus 6 tablespoons water and 3/4 cups brown sugar.
Add sweet potato cubes.
Cover and simmer until tender.
Add 1 teaspoon vanilla just before removing from fire.
Can be eaten hot, warm or cold with green tea.

Sweet Potato Fries

Peel Sweet Potatoes and cut into large juliennes.
Heat 1 cup vegetable oil.
Fry Sweet Potatoes until golden yellow.
Line in paper towels.
Sprinkle with refined sugar or iodized salt.
Serve hot with lemonade.

Ginger Tea (Sailboat)

Boil 1/2 cup crushed ginger to 5 cups water.
Add 1 cup Sweet potato, cut into small cubes.
Simmer until cook.
Add sugar to taste.
Serve hot to relieve colds and sore throat.

Sweet Potato Croquettes (Maruya)

Mix together 1 cup all purpose flour, 1/4 cup water and 1 beaten egg.
Add Sweet Potatoes, cut into thin strips.
Add yellow food coloring (optional)
Heat oil in a skillet.
Drop by large tablespoons fulls and fry until crisp.
Line in paper towels.
Sprinkle with refined sugar.