Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes

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Why are Sweet Potatoes not more Popular?

I believe sweet potatoes are every bit as versatile as the more traditional varieties of potato and, if anything, even more delicious. They can be incorporated in to a great many varied healthy recipes and are extremely nutritious in their own right.

So why, one simply can not help but wonder, are sweet potatoes used so infrequently in the West, compared to - for example - old favourites like Maris Pipers or King Edwards? I believe it comes down simply to a lack of awareness on the part of the general public at large. A great many people will have seen sweet potatoes in their local supermarket, but may simply have no idea as to how to cook them and with what to serve them. It is my fervent hope and intention that here I may change situation that in at least some small way...

Healthy Poached Chicken on Sweet Potato Mash Recipe 

Poached Chicken on Sweet Potato MashSweet potatoes can be used to make mash in exactly the same way as any other variety of potato. It is absolutely delicious on its own or with a couple of simple ingredients added. It goes well with a great many different types of meat, particularly chicken or lamb. Find the recipe for this dish and lots more by clicking on the link below:

Poached Chicken on Sweet Potato Mash Recipe

Are you Aware Just how Healthy Sweet Potatoes Are? 

Check on the link below and you may just be surprised!

The nutritional value of sweet potato
A number of studies have suggested that the sweet potato is the most nutritious vegetable we can eat, bar none. Its complex blend of dietary fibres...

Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes Product of the Month: January 2010 

Do you know a bargain when you see it?

In this section of the site, I will try to feature each calendar month a particular product related to sweet potatoes and/or cooking and preparation of same which I believe holds some special value and significance.

This month, I am featuring the cookbook detailed below which offers an abundance of recipes both for those familiar with sweet potatoes and those cooking with them for the first time. This really is one of those books that has something for everyone!

The Sweet Potato Cookbook

The Sweet Potato Cookbook

by: Lyniece North Talmadge

This really is a cookbook out of the very top top drawer. It covers every type of sweet potato recipe imagineable, from the extremely simple to the exotic classics to challenge the most accomplished of cooks. It details sweet potato recipes for every course of the meal - and even some sweet potato drinks. If sweet potato is your passion, this is the book for you!

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Sweet Potato Recipes on Hub Pages 

My hand-picked list

Hub Pages is a similar, Web 2.0 hosting site to Squidoo and contains a lot of very varied recipes incorporating sweet potatoes. These are just a few of my favourites:
Baked Spicy Tofu & Sweet Potato: Recipe
Tofu is one of our regular foods, that is a food that we eat 3 to 4 times per month as a main course. I enjoy baked tofu, tofu stir fry and even have a tofu lasagna recipe which I will share in a later hub. ...
Easy coconut-crusted citrus and sweet spiced sweet potato recipe. Fantastic!
This is really popular at my Caribbean restaurant. The hint of cinnamon combined with the crunchy coconut makes a really exotic and delicious tropical combination. Serve this with simply grilled chicken...
Sweet potato casserole recipe
This is a very easy side dish to make and if you have kids they usually don't complain about eating it because it has the word sweet in it! Good luck!
Great Sweet Potato Recipe
This is my all time favorite sweet potato recipe. I always make this dish when I'm having someone new over for dinner - they are always impressed and it is such a simple recipe! Thyme Red Pepper Sweet Potatoes...
Sweet potato fritters with scallion pesto recipe. A delicious and elegant starter.
These sweet potato fritters with the easy to make scallion pesto are fantastic. They've got a bit of chile, and they're crunchy fried, and they look beautiful topped with the emerald green scallion...

Food, Drink and Lots, Lots More on Gordon Hamilton's Blogs 

Here is a brief look at his most recent posts

Jan 7, 2010 @ 5:38 amLunch Tip of the Day - Thursday, January 7th, 2010... from What Should I Have for Lunch Today?
It is but a sad reflection of my life circumstances in the second part of 2009 that I got totally out of the habit of eating lunch. As a consequence, not only did this neglected little blog suffer, so...
Jan 7, 2010 @ 4:56 amHow to Make a Living from Blogging from Best Helium Articles by Gordon Hamilton
Have you ever contemplated how to make a living from blogging - perhaps even day-dreamed about the process? Have you heard about the so-called, "Super Bloggers," and of how they not only make a living...
Jan 6, 2010 @ 3:33 pmHealthy Pork Recipes from Best Squidoo Lenses by Gordon Hamilton
Pork is of course a very common foodstuff and cooking ingredient. How often, however, do we go out of our way to ensure that we cook pork in a healthy fashion? All too frequently it is fried in satura...
Jan 6, 2010 @ 9:55 amBiryani Spiced Turkey with Garlic and Herb Rice from What Should I Have for Dinner Tonight?
I am aware that there are many who may not yet be able to face turkey in the aftermath of Christmas and - perhaps - Thanksgiving. This turkey recipe is very different, however, from the beautifully ro...
Jan 6, 2010 @ 9:28 amHow To Be a Better Cook from Best Helium Articles by Gordon Hamilton
How to be a better cook is something which millions of people puzzle over every day of their lives. They dream of impressing their families and friends with culinary creations fit to garnish the table...
Jan 6, 2010 @ 8:47 amBiryani Recipes from Best Hub Pages by Gordon Hamilton
Biryani is a dish which originated in ancient Persia and subsequently found its way to the Indian sub-continent. It is made from rice, spices and very often a wide variety of meats and vegetables. Thi...
Jan 5, 2010 @ 9:40 amWhy Sex Will Always Be a Part of Advertising from Best Helium Articles by Gordon Hamilton
Why sex will always be a part of advertising should not really be any great mystery. Ever since the earliest days of advertising, those responsible for producing adverts which are likely to do as they...
Jan 5, 2010 @ 9:21 amFood Tip of the Day - Tuesday, January 5th, 2010:... from What Should I Have for Dinner Tonight?
Biryani is almost always thought of as being an Indian dish but the reality is that it knows its origins in Persia (now Iran) and that it was introduced to India at some unknown time. The word is deri...
Dec 31, 2009 @ 7:41 amNew Year's Eve in Scotland is Hogmanay from Best Squidoo Lenses by Gordon Hamilton
Hogmanay in Scotland is traditionally the biggest celebration of the year. Songs are sung, whisky is drunk and Steak Pie is eaten. The revelling continues in many cases all night and right through New...
Dec 31, 2009 @ 7:00 amWhy New Year's Resolutions So Often Fail from Best Helium Articles by Gordon Hamilton
New Year is of course a time for many for making New Year's Resolutions. Whether the resolution be to lose weight, to stop smoking, or whatever, most of them relate to improving one's lifestyle for th...
Dec 30, 2009 @ 6:23 amSpicy Cottage Pie with Nutmeg Brussels Sprouts from What Should I Have for Dinner Tonight?
Cottage Pie in its most basic form is of course minced or ground beef, topped with mashed potato. Usually, however, there will be some vegetables added to the beef. Carrots, peas and onions are popula...
Dec 29, 2009 @ 12:51 pmFood Tip of the Day - Tuesday, December 29th, 2009... from What Should I Have for Dinner Tonight?
The often heated debate as to which is right, the vegetarian or the carnivore - or perhaps more commonly and accurately, the omnivore - is one which has of course raged for some time and one which is...
Dec 24, 2009 @ 12:46 pmMerry Christmas, Wishaw from The Wishaw Blog
It is Christmas Eve. The day before we celebrate and commemorate the coming of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Saviour, to the world. As I was out on snow patrol this afternoon in Wishaw town centre, looki...
Dec 24, 2009 @ 6:42 amGlossary of Christmas Food Cooking Tips 2009 from What Should I Have for Dinner Tonight?
Food plays a huge part in Christmas celebrations and this glossary of Christmas food cooking tips is intended to provide easy access to a whole host of information on how best to prepare and to cook s...
Dec 23, 2009 @ 3:33 pmPork and Leek Sausages with Garlic, Coriander and... from What Should I Have for Dinner Tonight?
Sausage and mash? Have I lost all my inventiveness? Am I now resorting to including on this blog blase meals from my childhood?Hopefully you will see from the photograph to the right alone that this r...

Healthy Lamb and Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe 

Lamb and Sweet Potato CasseroleLamb is very commonly accompanied by or even prepared with sweet potatoes and spices in Middle Eastern cooking. This simple yet delicious recipe pictured right can be found, along with many others, by clicking on the link below:

Healthy Lamb and Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe

 

Recipes: Sweet potato mashed potatoes
The sweet potato is one of the most nutritious vegetables readily available to us today. It is a fantastic source of vitamins and of fibre, yet so
Sweet potato casserole ideas
There are two principal reasons why I love sweet potatoes so much as a cooking ingredient. As someone who is very conscious of eating in the health...
Recipes: Baked sweet potato fries
Sweet potato fries are not only infinitely more tasty than what we may refer to as conventional fries, they are also more healthy. Sweet potatoes a...

Some of My Other Healthy Eating Sites on Squidoo! 

Recipes, Tips and lots more...

featured lens Healthy Beef Recipes

This is where, as the title would suggest, I will be sharing some of the healthy recipes I have created using beef, from minced or ground beef to larger cuts or joints and steaks. I very much verge upon being a carnivore by nature and sometimes actua...

featured lens Healthy Vegetarian Recipes

This site may ultimately prove to be something of a challenge for me, as if there is one thing I cannot claim to be, it is a vegetarian. That, however, does not preclude me from creating healthy and tasty vegetarian recipes, nor from - on occasion! -...

featured lens Healthy Pork Recipes

Pork, ham and bacon - they are of course all sourced from the same animal (a pig) and healthy recipes featuring all of them will therefore feature here at some stage. As on all my healthy eating sites, the emphasis on this site will be very much...

featured lens Healthy Fish Recipes

There are a great many different foodstuffs which I would class among my favourites but fish and seafood probably rate at the very top of the list. I love the freshness and delicacy of the flavours in fish and carefully experimenting with different w...

featured lens Healthy Cooking Recipes

Welcome to my site on what are - unquestionably - the universally relevant subjects of food and cooking and a comprehensive yet easy to follow look at how we can revolutionise our eating habits in order to make them more healthy. I hope you will enjo...

Sweet Potato Blogs 

Not that these titles will change automatically on a daily basis

Tasty Sweet potato and chicken curry - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet ...
I really don't know exactly how many calories/fat is in it...so if anyone can work that out This is a recipe I use to use up leftover chicken from a.
Sweet Potato Biscuits | Gluten-Free Goddess | Recipes
A recipe that requires slight tweaking only. Hooray. Going to use Natural balance margarine w/out soy and agave nectar for the maple syrup. Can't wait to whip up a batch of whipped agave margarine to spread on the warm Sweet potato ...
Nutty Sweet Potato Soup « Chaya's Comfy Cook Blog
Thus, I have a load of sweet potatoes, sitting on a chair. I don't want it to get too cozy so I will be making sweet potato recipes for a while. I have made a number of my ?orange soups?. They are orange because they are made of sweet ...
Sweet Potato Soup recipe - Best Recipes
A recipe for Sweet Potato Soup at Best Recipes. The most delicious winter or wet weather soup. So simple to make and absolutely worth it.
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More Sweet Potato Sites on Squidoo 

Check these out for even more information and great ideas

featured lens How to Make a Sweet Potato Shake

Fast and easy recipe for a highly nutritious delicious alternative to a milk shake.

featured lens Sweet Potatoes: Healthy, Tasty, and Versatile

Yes, sweet potatoes come in a can, in gelatinous chunks destined to be covered with marshmallows.  If that's your idea of sweet potato perfection, stop reading this lens.  If you'd like something different - and much healthier - on your tab...

featured lens Sweet Potato Pie Recipes & More

Is Sweet Potato part of your holiday meal planning? It should be! I love sweet potatos! One of my fovorite snacks is sweet potato pie. And it's so good for you! This lens is to share with you some recipes, stories and facts about sweet potatoes. Enjo...

 

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