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Advice and tips of the trade - these buying, storing, preparing, cooking and serving basics can get you the perfect sweet potato every time.
Let's start at the very beginning...
Buying 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!
Storing 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
 
Prepping 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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Cooking Sweet Potatoes:
Canned sweet potatoes are pre-cooked, so add them at, or towards, the end of a recipe
Cook 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)
Can boil sweet potatoes before peeling; skins slip off easily when done
Sweet potato can be: baked, boiled, candied, fried, grilled, mashed, pan-roasted, pureed, stuffed, twice-baked, etc.
Serving 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 . . .
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Use the advice and tips for buying, storing, prepping, cooking, and serving to have your best sweet potato dish.
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