Try These 7 Sweet Potato Recipes This Month
We have the best sweet potato dishes to warm you up this winter, both sweet and savory. If you’ve ever said out loud, “I don’t like sweet potatoes,” know that everyone who loves you has suppressed the impulse to retort, “You just haven’t tried them in the correct context!After all, sweet potatoes are significantly more adaptable than we realize, serving as the basis for a wide variety of savory and sweet recipes. Try these seven delicious recipes; you will definitely fall in love with at least one of them.
This Sweet Potato Chutney is a secret weapon of a condiment. It can make dishes as simple as rotisserie chicken, turkey wraps, and hell, even toast taste spectacular. There’s some warmth and smokiness from garam masala, and dried cherries add bursts of tartness. This is a versatile recipe, too; simply swap out the cherries for some raisins, apricots, figs, or cranberries if you want to alter the sweetness-to-tartness ratio.
Sweet potato fries contain much more starch than regular potatoes, which can make it harder to get them crispy. But there’s a secret to getting them to their most delectable state: soaking (and re-soaking) the fresh-cut fries in water to draw out their starches and using cornstarch to help develop texture. It sounds complicated, but it’s a lot of hands-off time, and it’ll result in fries with that coveted crunch.
Gougeres are a great party food, fluffy little puffs that are heavy on the cheese but still somehow light as a cloud—and these Sweet Potato Gougeres make a good thing even better by adding a seasonally appropriate richness to the end result. Better yet, you can make the dough in large batches, roll it into balls, and freeze for later use so you always have something on hand to serve guests.
No, it’s not a mistake for Vegan Chocolate Frosting to be in a list about sweet potatoes. The tuber is central to creating a dairy-free, gluten-free cupcake topping that boasts just the right amount of sweetness (not cloying like a typical buttercream) and some impressive depth of flavor, thanks to the inclusion of almond extract. Serve this dessert to guests and see if they can guess the secret ingredient.
These Sweet Potato Parker House Rolls get the most important detail right: the butter. Already buttery on their own, they open up like little pocketbooks and invite the spreading of further butter onto their interior. The sweet potato adds a beautiful hue to the final product, and there’s just enough sweetener in the dough to complement the tuber’s flavor.
