What can I make with sweet potatoes?
Sweet Potatoes keeps well, costs little, and turns into comfort food with barely any help. Recipes using sweet potatoes are below, plus roasting and storage notes.
8 recipes with sweet potatoes
Ceviche
Fresh fish cured in lime juice with onion and chile.
Peruvian25m4
Tempura
Ethereally light battered and fried shrimp and vegetables.
Japanese30m4
Vegan Buddha Bowl
Quinoa bowl with roasted veg, chickpeas, and tahini.
American35m2Buddha Bowl
Grain bowl loaded with roasted veg, protein, and tahini drizzle.
American35m4
Japchae
Chewy sweet potato noodles tossed with beef and vegetables.
Korean50m6
Sweet potato salad
step 1 Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6.
Turkish4
Skillet Apple Pork Chops with Roasted Sweet Potatoes & Zucchini
Serves 2 1.
United States4
Tajine de Poulet aux Carottes et Patates Douces (Chicken and Sweet Potato Tagine)
Combine onions, celery, cilantro, and parsley in a large pot.
Algerian4
How to get the most flavour out of sweet potatoes
- 1Cut into even pieces so everything finishes at the same moment.
- 2Roast at 425F on a preheated sheet pan for caramelised edges, or sear hard in a skillet if you want it fast.
- 3Do not crowd the pan; steam is the enemy of browning. Use two trays if you have to.
- 4Season in layers: salt before cooking, then acid and fat after, so the sweet potatoes tastes finished rather than plain.
What goes well with sweet potatoes
Sweet Potatoes is at its best with butter, rosemary, garlic, olive oil, black pepper and cream. Any two or three of those, plus sweet potatoes, is already a dinner rather than an ingredient list.
Storing sweet potatoes
Store sweet potatoes unwashed - moisture is what causes rot. Leafy types last longest wrapped loosely in a towel inside a bag; roots prefer somewhere cool and dark, not the fridge door. Anything starting to soften is ideal for soups, stocks, and roasting.
Substituting sweet potatoes
If you are out of sweet potatoes, look for something that behaves the same way in the pan rather than something that tastes the same. Match the moisture level, the cooking time, and the richness, and adjust the liquid slightly if your substitute releases more water. When in doubt, describe what you actually have in the chat and Mr. Chef will rewrite the recipe around it.
Sweet Potatoes recipes: common questions
- What can I make with sweet potatoes and not much else?
- Plenty. With sweet potatoes plus an onion, garlic, oil, and salt you already have the base of a skillet dinner, a soup, or a simple sauce. Add a starch - rice, pasta, bread, or potatoes - and it becomes a full meal. The recipes above are ordered so the ones needing the fewest extra items come first.
- What is the quickest sweet potatoes recipe?
- Look for the entries above marked 20 minutes or less. As a rule, anything cut small and cooked in a hot pan beats anything roasted whole, and one-pan recipes save more time in cleanup than in cooking.
- Can I substitute sweet potatoes?
- In most recipes yes, as long as the replacement plays a similar role - similar moisture, similar cooking time, similar richness. Swapping across roles (a watery vegetable for a starchy one, for instance) usually needs a change in liquid or cooking time too.
- How do I use up leftover sweet potatoes?
- Fried rice, a frittata, a grain bowl, a soup, or a quesadilla will absorb almost any leftover sweet potatoes without a recipe. If you want something specific, tell Mr. Chef exactly what is in the fridge and it will build a recipe around it.
- Are these sweet potatoes recipes vegetarian-friendly?
- Many are, and the vegetarian and vegan collections filter the whole library down to recipes with no meat or no animal products at all. In the chat you can also say "vegan" or "no dairy" and every suggestion will respect it.