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These basics on how to cook sweet potato and how to buy or store sweet potatoes are helpful tips.
How to Cook Sweet Potato:
There are many ways to cook sweet potato: baked sweet potato, boiled sweet potato, candied sweet potato, fried sweet potato, grilled sweet potato, mashed sweet potato, pan-roasted sweet potato, twice-baked sweet potato. Find recipes for all of the ways to cook sweet potato.
Baked sweet potato is simply the best way to enjoy. Bake for about 45-60 minutes in a slow oven of about 275 degrees. Before baking, prick the sweet potato with a fork and wrap in foil. The foil will hold in the natural juices as the sweet potato carmelizes. Yummy!!!
Canned sweet potatoes are pre-cooked, so add them at, or towards, the end of a recipe.
Cook sweet potatoes immediately after cutting and/or peeling; contact with air makes the flesh dark.
To slow down oxidation (darkening of the flesh) place peeled and/or cut sweet potatoes in a bowl or pot and keep them covered with water until you're ready to cook them.
Cooking makes the sweet potato's nutrients (e.g., beta carotene which the body converts to Vitamin A) bioavailable (easier for the body to absorb).
Boil sweet potatoes before peeling; skins slip off easily after they are done cooking.
How to Buy Sweet Potatoes:
Select sweet potatoes that are:
Clean, blemish-free, decay-free, dry, smooth, and firm
One decayed area can spoil (transfer an awful favor to) the whole sweet potato; cutting it away won't help - so, don't buy it!
How to Store Sweet Potatoes:
Do not refrigerate uncooked sweet potatoes! So important - it's worth repeating
Do not refrigerate uncooked sweet potatoes!
Refrigeration of uncooked sweet potatoes makes them starchy (their natural sugars
turn to starch)
Store in a cool, dry area for up to about 7 days (they have a shorter home shelf life than white potatoes)
Store at 55-65 degrees F
 
How to Prep Sweet Potatoes:
Use a stainless steel knife when cutting; carbon blades make sweet potatoes turn dark
One medium 6-oz size cooked sweet potato equals about one cup of canned ones
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How to Serve Sweet Potatoes:
Sweet potatoes can be served: any of the ways listed above, or diced and sliced for veggie trays, as snack chips, blended into a smoothie, as juice, etc.
Also, they go well with coconut, nuts and fruits, and spices like allspice, cinnamon, coriander, ginger and nutmeg
Sweet potatoes can be an ingredient in many dishes including: casseroles, desserts (pies, cakes, puddings, cookies), breads, dips, salads, sauces, snacks, souffles, soups, and on and on . . .
Serve your sweet potato dish in style! At Macy's you can find all kinds of fabulous tableware for every occasion.
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