Sweet Potato Recipes

Recently we were given quite a few home grown sweet potatoes. So, I’ve been looking for Sweet Potato Recipes to use them in. We’ve give away some of the sweet potatoes but I’m still looking for recipe ideas that use sweet potatoes.

Sweet Potato Information

We really started eating sweet potatoes when my son couldn’t eat ordinary potato. Sweet Potato is not related to ordinary potatoes, so he could eat them. Kumara is another name for Sweet Potatoes. There’s more information about Sweet Potatoes here including popular sweet potato recipes.

In Australia there are 4 types of sweet potatoes, grown. The type I have and usually buy is Gold with gold skin and orange flesh, also called orange sweet potato.

Some of the information I’ve read suggests not storing your sweet potatoes in the fridge. I store my ordinary potatoes in the cupboard. However, ever since some rats ate my sweet potatoes I’ve stored them in the fridge.

Sweet Potatoes can be substituted for ordinary potatoes in most recipes. My potato salad recipe can be made with sweet potato or ordinary potatoes. I’m sure you can boil sweet potato and eggs together if you want to as well. I’ve often made the Grain-free Dough, from Life Changing Food, with sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are often moister once cooked, so you may need to adjust liquid in some recipes.

Sweet Potato Recipe Ideas

Below is a selection of ideas and recipes for using sweet potatoes. Most of the recipes are gluten and dairy free or can easily be adjusted.

Breads

• Grain-free Wraps – Life Changing Food – replace ordinary potatoes with sweet potato

Breakfast

• Sweet Potato ‘toast’ – thinly slice sweet potato and cook in toasted sandwich maker, top with avocado or another topping and enjoy.
• Sweet Potato Rosti – Life Changing Food
• Chopped up cooked sweet potato fried with other vegetables and served with a fried egg
• Breakfast Sweet Potato Hash
• Sweet Potato Spinach Frittata
• Sweet Potato & Banana Pancakes

Lunch

• Microwave or bake a small sweet potato or portion of a large one and scoop out the flesh and add chopped zucchini, mushrooms, shallots, ham & cheese and bake for another 5 mins.
• Bacon and Sweet Potato Slice
• Sweet Potato Soup
• Sweet Potato, Quinoa & Cranberry Salad
• Sweet Potato Salad with Buttermilk Dressing – To make the dressing I use almond milk with a little vinegar, whole egg mayonnaise, chives and mustard powder.

Dinner

We often just cook sweet potato to have with dinner. Often in the form of chips, wedges or sliced thinly & cooked on the BBQ. Occasionally, I’ll serve it mashed. Here’s some recipe ideas for using sweet potatoes in main meals:

• Shepherds Pie with sweet Potato mash on top.
• Mince & Rice with Pumpkin – Replace the pumpkin with sweet potato
• Sausage rolls made with a sweet potato version of the grain-free dough.
• Pizza with sweet potato grain-free dough bases
• Paleo Sweet Potato Pizza Crust Recipe
• Gf & Df Lasagna – lasagna noodles made with sweet potato grain-free dough
• Chicken Pasties with sweet potato grain-free dough
• Sweet Potato Sausage Pie (must put this recipe up on the blog)
• Loaded Hasselback Potatoes – I made this with sweet potato and served with dairy free sour cream
• Salmon & Corn Cakes – 4 Ingredients Kids

Side Dishes

• Sweet Potato Bake – made by substituting sweet potato for ordinary potato in any recipe.
• Sweet Potato & Corn Fritters – just replace the flour with your choice of GF flour to make them gluten free
• Scalloped Sweet Potatoes with Bacon & Scallions
• Sweet Potato Stacks
• Sweet Potato Tater Tots

Snacks & Treats

• Sweet Potato Dip (I must refine and post my recipe)
• Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Wedges
• GF Sweet Potato Scones
• Lime and Kumara Butter Cake – Australian Women’s Weekly Potato Cookbook – This is a recipe I used to make when my son was first dairy, soy, potato, etc free. I simply substituted the butter for nuttelex and the milk for dairy free milk (probably oat milk at the time).
• Pecan Fudge Brownies with Sweet Potato Frosting – I made this a few weeks ago but the frosting went moldy, so I’d recommend storing it in the fridge.

There are 100’s more sweet potato recipes available. This is just a small selection of ones I’ve tried or bookmarked to try. Creating this post has given me new ideas. I’m off to make a few recipes to use up my sweet potatoes.

How do you like to eat sweet potato? Do you have any other ideas for sweet potato recipes?

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