There are limitless recipes with sweet potatoes to be tried out. They range between simple and easy ones to make, with others more complex and demanding. Here is our list of scrumptious sweet potato recipes to try out any day. They are put together on the basis of ease of doing, ingredients availability, and tastefulness. These recipes either have sweet potato as the star ingredient or among supporting ingredients. Enjoy.
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Sweet Potato Kitchen Equipment
Before we get into the recipes, we are reminded that there is so much to do with sweet potatoes in the kitchen as the recipes we present here will show. Different recipes with sweet potatoes in them will call for their preparation in a variety of ways from slicing to mashing and to cubing if you like. With this in mind, below is our recommended kitchen equipment for use with sweet potatoes and regular potatoes just as well.
- Mandoline
- Sweet Potato Fries Cutter
- Masher
- Crinkle cutter
- Sweet Potato Peeler
- Sweet Potato Steamer
- Air Fryer
- Blender
- Immersion blender
Sweet Potato Recipes
1. Simple Grilled Sweet Potato Recipe
- Time: 26 minutes
- Serves: 6
- Cuisine: American
One of the simplest and most basic things to do with sweet potatoes is to grill them. This recipe produces a simple side dish of grilled sweet potato wedges which are drizzled with olive oil. This recipe is particularly scrumptious because of the inviting smokiness of the final product.
You will need a peeler to first peel the sweet potatoes before proceeding with the recipe. Other recipe ingredients we wish to highlight include scallions, basil leaves and dill. If you are wondering what to serve this with, there are so many fits. You could serve this with grilled chicken, pork, or even beef. Furthermore, there is an optional garlic-tinged, herby yogurt dressing that can come along as a dip. In total, this recipe takes 25 minutes to make and yields 6. View Recipe.
2. Baked Sweet Potato Recipe
Time: 45 minutes
Serves: 2
Cuisine: American
This is yet another low-effort recipe with sweet potatoes. Much of the work will be done by your oven while you carry on with other things. One important reminder for us to make here is that this is a baking recipe. As such, suitable sweet potatoes are the moist varieties.
We have in mind here the red or orange ones. Avoid the dry varieties. The sweet potatoes are washed, punctured using a fork to allow steam to escape when baking, and shoved in the oven. The final product will have some toppings and can be served as a side dish paired with any protein that you fancy. Other ingredients going into this recipe are butter, Greek yogurt, and chives among others. This delicious recipe will require 45 minutes of your time (the bulk of it in the oven). You may use as many sweet potatoes as you like. View Recipe.
3. Simple Sweet Potato Salad Recipe
Time: 50 minutes
Serves: 6
Cuisine: Vegetarian
The traditional way is to make even sweet potato salad with mayonnaise. This recipe is a gorgeous variation. The sweet potatoes are first peeled, cut up into biggish-sized chunks, and then roasted. This is the first part. The second part of the recipe is the dressing.
The dressing has about 6 ingredients going in which include honey, shallots, sherry vinegar (example), extra-virgin olive oil, and chives. Altogether the recipe takes 50 minutes to make and serves 6 people. Before serving, as an option, the dish can also be sprinkled with crumbled feta or toasted pine nuts. View Recipe.
4. Sweet Potato and Bacon Soup Recipe
Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 8 cups / 2 quarts
Cuisine: American
In this recipe, things are tuned up a notch to make a delicious tasting soup using sweet potatoes and bacon. The four slices of bacon in this recipe will be chopped up and be used as a topping to the soup when serving. Before use, the sweet potatoes will have their skin peeled off and then baked.
Other ingredients called for in making the soup include yellow onion, chicken or turkey stock, and some chives. This recipe is ready in 30 minutes and produces 2 quarts or 8 cups of soup. View Recipe.
5. Creamy Sweet Potato Soup with Bacon and Goat Cheese Recipe
Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 6
Cuisine: American
This is a straightforward, easy-to-make soup recipe with sweet potatoes. Just as the forgoing one, it has some bacon in it but adds other flavorful dimensions which make it a unique sweet potato soup recipe. You can make this soup as part of a weeknight meal or as part of a special occasion dinner.
Do not be intimidated by the 9 or so ingredients that go into the recipe, once those are assembled this is a very easy recipe to make. The sweet potatoes are first microwaved for 15 minutes, skin on. Once tender and cooled down, the sweet potato flesh is squeezed out of the skin and the skin discarded.
The flesh will be blended along with the other ingredients to produce the final product which is garnished or topped with crispy crumbled bacon, goat cheese, and chopped herbs. Budget 30 minutes to make this recipe which feeds 6 people. View Recipe.
6. Sweet Potato Pitas with Cucumber Slaw Recipe
Time: 32 minutes
Serves: 4
Cuisine: American
This recipe brings together avocado, cucumber, cabbage, and sweet potatoes a combination many wouldn’t even imagine. Even so, the final product is a scrumptious pita bread sandwich which serves 4. On the cucumber, you want to use a bitterless type such as English cucumber or Persian cucumber.
For a healthy angle to it, you could also use purple cabbage instead of just good old white cabbage. Other ingredients in this recipe include extra-virgin oil, harissa paste, white wine vinegar, dill, and vegan mayo among others.
The pita bread will be whole wheat if you want to strictly stick with the requirements of the recipe. The sweet potatoes will be first roasted and the cucumber made into a slaw before everything is combined to create inviting pita pocket sandwiches. This recipe takes about 30 minutes to make. View Recipe.
7. Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Fries Recipe
Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 6
Cuisine: American
No sweet potato recipe ideas are complete without fries. This recipe makes some of the best fries using sweet potato. For best results, you will need to use orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. Other ingredients will be extra-virgin oil and a host of spices which include smoked paprika, garam masala, and Cajun seasoning.
The sweet potatoes are first washed and then peeled. They are sliced into the same shape as regular potato fries. For even baking that produces nice-looking crusty-edged fries, the sweet potatoes will be turned over after the first 10 minutes. This recipe will require 30 minutes of your time to make and will produce up to 6 servings. View Recipe.
8. Purple Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
Time: 70 minutes
Serves: 6
Cuisine: American
The hunt for delectable recipes with sweet potatoes is incomplete before one considers this one. Ever heard of purple sweet potatoes? In the United States, one of the common ones is Murasaki which some also call Japanese sweet potato. However, for this recipe, you will need a purple-fleshed sweet potato such as Okinawan (Murasaki only has purple skin).
This is a simple recipe that involves making a pie crust that will be filled with mashed purple sweet potato. While the skin is kept on whilst baking, it is removed once the sweet potatoes are baked and before they are mashed.
Other ingredients will be unsalted butter, ginger, orange zest, and milk among others. Optionally, some granola will be used as a topping. The pie will be served as dessert. The recipe calls for 30 minutes prep time, and up to 40 minutes bake time and yields a 9 inch or 23 cm diameter pie. View Recipe.
9. Vegan Purple Sweet Potato Salad
Time: 15 minutes
Serves: 2-4
Cuisine: American
This is one more recipe among our list of recipes with sweet potatoes, which utilizes purple sweet potatoes. This recipe has two main aspects to it, namely being vegan and second presenting a certain functional health angle to it. Purple sweet potatoes have anthocyanins which are naturally occurring biochemicals with antioxidants.
Anthocyanins are also found in some other fruits and vegetables. Examples include purple tomatoes, purple broccoli, black tomatoes, and blueberries. Antioxidants are beneficial against inflammation, cancer, diabetes, and even obesity among a host of other functional health benefits.
Other ingredients that go into this recipe include cucumber, spring onions, white vinegar, honey, and white pepper among others. The purple sweet potatoes can be baked days ahead of the actual recipe. In that case, the recipe will take only 15 minutes to make. The final product serves 2. View Recipe.
10. Sweet Potato Egg Breakfast Casserole Recipe
Time: 45 minutes
Serves: 2-4
Cuisine: American
This sweet potato recipe is geared for a typical savory American breakfast. The bake combines a cocktail of ingredients such as Italian sausage, eggs, cheese, green pepper, and garlic among others. It is a filling dish that can be made for brunch which involves many people.
The sweet potatoes are cooked for a few minutes for softening before other mentioned ingredients are added. After everything has been mixed, the mixture is then baked for about 40 to 45 minutes in a casserole dish. The dish is allowed to cool for some 15 minutes before serving. This recipe takes 1 hour to make. View Recipe.
11. Sweet Potato Hash Recipe
Time: 65 minutes
Serves:
Cuisine: American
Hash has been a part of American cuisine as far back as the 1700s. Hash is essentially a culinary dish made up of chopped ingredients of which potatoes usually represent the starch component in the dish. In this popular recipe, sweet potatoes substitute regular white potatoes to create an interesting yet scrumptious variation.
This breakfast dish comes out crispy and inviting. There are only 5 ingredients to the making of the dish. Washed, peeled, and cubed sweet potatoes, yellow onion, fresh garlic, spices, and olive oil. The spices will consist, among others, of garlic powder, paprika, and thyme. All the ingredients are combined and baked in a casserole dish for about 65 minutes with some stirring in between. View Recipe.
12. Thai Sweet Potato Mango Curry Recipe
Time: 35 minutes
Serves: 4
Cuisine: Thai
Of all the recipes with sweet potatoes in them, would you consider a sweet potato curry dish? This recipe ventures with you into delicious Thai cuisine to produce sweet potato mango red Thai curry. Although exotic to an average American home cook, this dish is super simple and doesn’t take that much time to get ready.
In fact, the dish is ready in 45 minutes and serves 4. Some of the ingredients required for this recipe include red curry paste (example) organic coconut milk, firm mangoes, steamed jasmine rice, lemongrass, ginger, and garlic. The sweet potato will be peeled and cubed and then added to other already cooking ingredients to simmer for about 10 minutes. The curry, once ready, is spooned over the rice before serving. View Recipe.
13. German Sweet Potato Cabbage Soup
Time: 15 minutes
Serves: 6 bowls
Cuisine: German
One more exotic dish to consider in this list of recipes with sweet potatoes is the German sweet potato cabbage soup. Although this can be an anytime recipe, it is particularly best suited for the fall and winter seasons. The recipe yields 6 bowls and takes only 15 minutes to prepare.
As far as the ingredients are concerned, 2 large sweet potatoes will be required, peeled and cubed. Other ingredients in the recipe are olive oil, onion, leeks, cabbage, celery seed, marjoram (example), vegetable stock, salt, and pepper. The vegetables will eventually be placed in a slow cooker with the sweet potatoes and cabbage added. The soup is served hot after 6 to 8 hours of slow cooking. View recipe.
14. Lettuce Roasted Sweet Potato Salad
Time: 25 minutes
Serves: 4
Cuisine: American
With only 25 minutes to spare, you can enjoy yet another baked sweet potato salad. This recipe produces a flavorful salad that is made from a combination of sweet potatoes, lettuce, crumbled feta, olive oil, maple syrup, avocado, and dried cranberries among others.
The sweet potatoes are seasoned with avocado oil, allspice, sea salt, and pepper before they are baked for some 25 minutes with a single turning at the halfway point. The lettuce and other ingredients are chopped and a dressing prepared whilst the sweet potatoes are baking. In the end, just before serving, all the ingredients are combined in one large salad bowl and drizzled with a dressing. This recipe produces 4 servings. View Recipe.
15. Sweet Potato Pork Stew Recipe
Time: 2 Hours
Serves: 8
Cuisine: American
Up until this point we hadn’t included any sweet potato stews on this list. Here it is finally in the form of sweet potato pork stew. This recipe produces 8 servings of delectable pork stew which is ready in 2 hours. The sweet potatoes will be first washed, peeled, and cubed. The pork will be boneless and also cubed.
Other ingredients called for by the recipe are chicken broth, Dijon mustard (example), canola oil (example), garlic, and fresh parsley among others. The pork is first coated with some seasoned flour and then browned in oil. The sweet potatoes will be added later to the pot with the pork and let simmer together. If you enjoy pork dishes we suggest these recipes with pork chops. View Recipe.
16. Spiced Lamb & Sweet Potato Curry Recipe
Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 2-4
Cuisine: Indian
In Indian cuisine, there is a dish called keema which is anchored in minced meat. This recipe offers a tasty twist to this regular dish by making it using lamb mince and sweet potato. This recipe produces this very popular dish that serves 2 but can be doubled to 4 by doubling the ingredients.
It takes only 30 minutes to make. Ingredients for the recipe include brown rice, ground cinnamon, ground cumin, curry powder, and garlic among others. The sweet potatoes are cooked skin on, cut into bite-size pieces. When all is said and done and the dish is ready, the spiced lamb & sweet potato curry will be served over the brown rice. View Recipe.
Conclusion
The foregoing recipes with sweet potatoes demonstrate the amazing versatility of sweet potatoes, which at first may appear limited compared to regular white potatoes, for example. However, it is apparent that there is so much that can be done with sweet potatoes in a variety of scrumptious culinary recipes. Investing in good kitchen equipment as listed at the beginning of this article is very helpful in aiding full exploration of the different culinary possibilities good old sweet potatoes have to offer.
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