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Slow Cooker Recipes | Crock Pot Sweet Potato Stew

Potato Chef — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:35:00 +0000

The Sweet Potato in a Slow Cooker | Crock Pot makes a wonderful Sweet Potato Stew. Wow I’m going to need some oxygen. I’ve come to expect massive interest in any Sweet Potato Recipe that I publish on this site. It is definitely a favorite for my readers. Sweet Potato Recipes are popular because they taste so good. Today we have a stew recipe that is sure to please. Stew recipes make for great meals during the winter months.

How To Make Slow Cooker |Crock Pot Sweet Potato Stew

Ingredients

1 cup chopped yellow onion
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup grated peeled sweet potato
1 cup vegetable broth or water
2 slices bacon, crisp-cooked and crumbled
1 cup half and half
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
Pepper for taste

Directions

Place the onion, celery, sweet potato, broth and bacon in the crock pot | slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
Increase the heat to high and add the half and half, using just enough to bring the stew to the perfect desired consistency. Add more water if needed. Cook on high for 30 minutes or until hot.
Use pepper for taste. Stir in the parsley.

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Baked Microwave Sweet Potatoes

Potato Chef — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:38:10 +0000

Baking a Sweet Potato in the Microwave is pretty simple. It sure is a lot faster than baking a sweet potato in the oven. The microwave has make cooking a baked sweet potato fast, easy, simple and quick.

How To Make Baked Sweet Potato in the Microwave

Wash the Sweet Potatoes. Leave the skins on.
Pierce each Sweet Potato with a fork. Four times should do the job. If you don’t follow this step the Sweet Potato might explode in the microwave.
Place the sweet potatoes on a sheet of paper towels about 1 inch apart on the shelf of the microwave.
You are going to wan to turn the sweet potatoes over at least once during the cooking cycle. Probably half way through is best.
Cook on high

Sweet Potato Minutes In The Microwave
1 4 to 6
2 6 to 8
3 8 to 12
4 12 to 16
5 16 to 20

The Sweet potato may feel firm when they are done. Let them stand 5 minutes to soften. There are many ways to cook a potato recipe, we consider this to be a good fall back recipe for a sweet potato in a microwave.

That is how you bake a sweet potato in the microwave. We offer many fine potato recipes on this site inlucding directions on how to make a baked potato.

Bell Pepper Casserole With Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Potato Chef — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:04:20 +0000

The Bell Pepper Casserole is a favorite casserole dish of mine. I have adopted the bell pepper casserole to include Sliced Russet Potatoes along with Mashed Sweet Potatoes. When I say this casserole dish is quick, easy, delicious, fast and a simple recipe….I Mean It.

The different tastes that combine in this bell pepper casserole dish will make your mouth water and your kitchen seem like a miracle of culinary delights took up residence!

Besides the delicious taste of the bell pepper casserole, we also like the fact that this is one of the easy simple recipes on this site that produces a quick gourmet dish. It is our belief that a great homemade recipe should be a recipe that makes a quick and delicious meal.

When cooking this casserole you can also rest assured that the bell pepper casserole can be put in your menu book under “quick healthy food”. Certainly it can be placed in the category of fast vegetarian recipes. Now that you are aware that the bell pepper casserole is a fast easy recipe, it is a quick healthy food, and it is a simple casserole to cook, we only need to speak briefly about the potatoes that will be used in the preparation of the bell pepper casserole.

The Sliced Russet Potato is the tubular that will be added to the Bell Pepper Casserole. The Russet is commonly used to make french fries and potato chips. We are using it because of the sliced potatoes in the bell pepper casserole recipe. We will make the mashed potatoes from very tasty sweet potatoes with the help of a potato ricer. The combination of taste of the Russet and Sweet Potatoes will be something to remember.

The Bell Pepper Casserole with the mashed sweet potato and the sliced Russet potato will be one of the better easy side dish recipes that you will ever cook. You can use it as a make ahead recipe, and because you are going to make it from scratch this homemade food is sure to please. By the way, the leftovers are really fast cooking and taste great. Are you ready to make a delicious comfort food?

How To Make Bell Pepper Casserole

Ingredients For Mashed Sweet Potatoes

3 Large Sweet Potatoes, Scrubbed
Vegetable oil to rub the potatoes
1/4 cup of heavy cream
1/4 cup of chicken broth
1 teaspoon of bottled horseradish, drained
Salt & Ground Black Pepper to Taste

Directions For Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Preheat Oven to 325F
Rub the skins of the sweet potatoes with the vegetable oil
Prick holes in the sweet potatoes with a fork (so they won’t explode)
Place the sweet potatoes on a cookie sheet; then place the cookie sheet on the lowest rack in the oven
Bake the sweet potatoes for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until they are easily pierced by a sharp knife
Test the sweet potatoes after one hour
When the sweet potatoes are finished cooking let them cool until you can easily handle them
Cut the potatoes into 1 to 2 inch cubes
Now squeeze the sweet potato cubes through your potato ricer to make lump free mashed sweet potatoes
In a one quart saucepan bring the cream and chicken broth to a boil; remove from heat
Using an electric mixer set to medium speed, slowly beat the cream mixture into the mashed sweet potatoes until they are smooth and fluffy
Beat in horseradish along with the salt & pepper
Cover the mashed sweet potato mixture and set aside

Ingredients For Bell Pepper Casserole

1 small onion sliced very thin
1 small bell pepper sliced very thin
2 medium size russet potatoes sliced very thin
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup of sour cream
The mashed sweet potatoes you just made
1 cup of cheddar cheese, grated
4 medium size Russet potatoes, sliced and cooked
6 well cooked slices of bacon

Directions on Cooking The Bell Pepper Casserole

Preheat the oven to 350F
Spread the mashed sweet potatoes on the bottom of a casserole dish
Spread the sour cream on top of the mashed sweet potatoes
Now you will need to saute in the butter the onion and bell pepper slices
Place the sauteed onion slices and bell pepper slices over the sour cream…evenly
Drip some of the reserved butter onto the top of the sauteed slices. Don’t drown them. Now evenly place the slices of the Russet potatoes on top.
Now evenly place the slices of the Russet Potatoes on top.
Place the casserole dish in the oven and let bake for 1 1/4 hours.
Now sprinkle the 1 cup of cheddar cheese on top. Put back in oven (covered) for 15-20 minutes or until cheese is melted.
Remove from oven and sprinkle the cooked bacon on top

This bell pepper casserole makes a great side dish recipe for everyone in the family including the one or two vegetarians that demand a vegetarian recipe. You have just made a quick, simple, easy, and delicious bell pepper casserole with sliced Russet potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes.

We hope you enjoyed cooking and eating the Bell Pepper Casserole Dish with Russet Potato Slices and Mashed Sweet Potatoes. It surely is a quick, simple, easy to make healthy food . Enjoy the leftovers of this comfort food.

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Sweet Potato As A Biofuel

Potato Chef — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:41:46 +0000

The Biofuel Of The Future

As an alternative fuel the sweet potato is gathering steam to become the Biofuel of the future. According to an article in Science Daily, the sweet potato is a Biofuel worth considering.

Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn In Ethanol Production Study–Good News For Biofuel
In experiments, sweet potatoes grown in Maryland and Alabama yielded two to three times as much carbohydrate for fuel ethanol production as field corn grown in those states.

The sweet potato carbohydrate yields approached the lower limits of those produced by sugarcane, the highest-yielding ethanol crop. Another advantage for sweet potatoes and cassava is that they require much less fertilizer and pesticide than corn. Just more good news for Biofuel.

The disadvantages to cassava and sweet potato are higher start-up costs, particularly because of increased labor at planting and harvesting times. If economical harvesting and processing techniques could be developed, the data suggests that sweet potato in Maryland and sweet potato and cassava in Alabama have greater potential than corn as ethanol sources.

Further studies are needed to get data on inputs of fertilizer, water, pesticides and estimates of energy efficiency. Overall, the data indicate it would be worthwhile to start pilot programs to study growing cassava and sweet potato for ethanol, especially on marginal lands.

The additional research could help develop new Biofuel sources without diverting field corn supplies from food and feed use to fuel.

As with everything else in this changing world, Bio Fuel is the wave of the future. Sweet Potato Bio Fuels are an alternative fuel, a green fuel, that can’t be overlooked.

USDA/Agricultural Research Service. “Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn In Ethanol Production Study.” ScienceDaily 28 August 2008. 28 November 2008 .

Canned Sweet Potato

Potato Chef — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:55:39 +0000

There is a reason that you can buy a Canned Sweet Potato at the grocery store. Not everybody wants to make a homemade recipe every time they are cooking. The canned sweet potato is an acceptable alternative to a homemade Sweet Potato Recipe when you find yourself short on time.

Sweet Baked Potatoes Or A Canned Sweet Potato

That is all up to you. People use sweet potatoes for a whole variety of side dish recipes:

Sweet Potato Pie

Sweet Potato Casserole

Sweet Potato Fries and French Fries

Sweet Potato Yams

Sweet Potatoes Candied

Baked Sweet Potatoes

Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Really….Sweet Potatoes With just about everything!!!

Our great country of America is only 10th on the list of sweet potato growers. Would you like to take a guess who is number 1? Well it is none other than China!

Do you think that the Canned Sweet Potato that you buy at the store is the same as a yam? If you said yes then you would be wrong. A yam is a large, starchy, tropical root crop grown in Asia or West Africa that can weigh more than a large dog. In North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi sweet potato farmers began calling their crop “yams” to distinguish it from the white-fleshed sweet potatoes.

The USDA requires that when it is used to refer to sweet potatoes, the word “yam” must be accompanied by the words “sweet potatoes” on all labels and marketing materials.

Sweet potatoes are one of the most nutritious vegetables. Low in calories with no fat and no cholesterol, they contain antioxidants; vitamins C, B6, and E; iron; potassium; and beta-carotene. They’re also a great source of fiber. Canned Sweet Potatoes are also very nutritious but not so much as the non-canned.

Those Southern Belles love their sweet potatoes—consuming 54% of all canned sweet potatoes, and 42% of all fresh sweet potatoes. I think they consume 99% of all grits.

When a recipe calls for white potatoes, use sweet potatoes instead. They’re also the perfect ingredient when making soups, stews, casseroles, puddings, cake, muffins, and bread.

If you’re using canned sweet potatoes in a recipe, add them last because they’re already cooked.

One 15.5 ounce can of sweet potatoes, drained, equals one pound of fresh sweet potatoes.

A 15.5 ounce can contains approximately 2 cups of sweet potatoes.
One cup of canned sweet potatoes equals one medium-sized, cooked fresh sweet potato.

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Sweet Potato Biscuits Recipe

Potato Chef — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:11:54 +0000

Sweet Potato Biscuits are a delight to make and even more delightful to eat. This Sweet Potato Recipe for biscuits is truly the type of potato recipe that will be handed down from mother to daughter and generation to generation.

The baked sweet potato will be combined with brown sugar, buttermilk, and much more. This is an easy, simple, and quick potato recipe that can be considered a “make ahead” potato recipe.

How To Make Sweet Potato Biscuits

Ingredients

1 cup mashed sweet potatoes
2 cups sifted flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup buttermilk

Directions

Combine the sifted flour, baking powder and salt, and sift together into mixing bow.
Combine the mashed sweet potatoes with the brown sugar and butter and beat until well blended.
With your fingertips, check and crush any lumps.
Dissolve baking soda in the buttermilk.
Add the buttermilk to the sweet potato mixture.
Work in the flour.
Knead a few times to form a smooth dough, but do not over mix.
Turn out onto floured board and pat out to thickness desired.
Cut into rounds with biscuit cutter and place on ungreased baking sheet.
Bake at 425F for approximately 15 minutes

Hint: DO NOT twist biscuit cutter, use up & down movement. Twisting the cutter toughens biscuits.

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Mexican Roasted Sweet Potato Recipe

Potato Chef — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:18:07 +0000

Mexican Roasted Sweet Potatoes are some of the best sweet potatoes you will ever eat. The roasted sweet potato recipe that you will be making comes to us from Rockin Robin’s Cooking Mexican Recipes. It is the site to go to for first class Mexican Food Recipes.

This roasted sweet potato recipe is a dish you can make not only with Mexican food but anytime.

Our recipe includes a variety of spices and flavorings and a little heat. Feel free to adjust this part according to your taste.

We will be roasting this recipe in olive oil which gives the potatoes a delicate caramelized flavor.?

When they are almost done we will brush them with our Honey-Lime Glaze and sprinkle with fresh cilantro.

When selecting your potatoes, look for those on the small to medium size with no bruises or cracks. The real large ones tend to be more fibrous and not as sweet.

Some of the more common sweet potatoes you will find in the grocery store are Garnet, Jewel and Beauregard to name a few of the seven major varieties.

Did you know that the sweet potato is part of the morning glory family and not related to the yam?

How To Make The Roasted Sweet Potato Recipe

Ingredients

3 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1 inch chunks
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon chili powder, use cayenne if you like it hot
Salt to taste
chopped cilantro

Glaze

1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon chili powder

Directions

Preheat oven to 425F
In a bowl toss the sweet potatoes with the olive oil.
Using your fingers, sprinkle the chili powder over the potatoes. Stir and repeat the process. This will help spread the chili powder evenly over the potatoes.
Pour onto a baking sheet and spread them out. Use a rubber spatula to scrape out all the oil. The oil will help keep the potatoes from sticking. Salt to taste.
Bake for 20 minutes. Check the sweet potatoes after 10 minutes and turn them over.
If they start to stick, you can pour a drizzle of olive oil over them.

Directions For The Honey Lime Glaze

While you are roasting sweet potatoes, mix the glaze ingredients in a bowl with a whisk.
When the potatoes are done, brush on the glaze mixture and return to the oven for an additional 5 to 10 minutes.
Place in a serving dish and sprinkle the chopped cilantro over the roasted potatoes and serve.

Storing Sweet Potatoes

Store your sweet potatoes in a cool, dry place between 55 to 60 degrees F. They will keep for up to one month.

Don’t even think about storing them in the refrigerator. The inside will harden and their taste will be affected.

Rinse them only right before you plan to cook them. Once you cook them they will keep about 1 week in the refrigerator.

Here is a tip: This sweet potato recipe freezes well so make up a dish a head of time. When you are in a hurry or don’t have enough time to cook, you’ll just have to pop them out of the freezer and heat them up.

Other Flavors And Spices You Can Add

Sweet potatoes can be flavored with a number of other items such as pineapple, oranges, raisins, toasted walnuts, sunflower seeds or pecans.

Want to add some spicy hot to this recipe? Try substituting ancho chile powder or chipotle chiles.

Also good is cloves, nutmeg, ginger, maple syrup, rum, balsamic vinegar, or coconut.

So you see, sweet potatoes are very versatile and very good for you. Did I mention they are loaded with vitamin A, C and dietary fiber? A good potato recipe is really good for you!

So the next time you are whipping up some Mexican fare, try this Mexican sweet potato recipe with some carne asada and a margarita. Ole!! The best potato recipes will be found on this site…no doubt.

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Mashed White And Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Potato Chef — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:18:24 +0000

So you think you’ve already had the best mashed potatoes that the world has to offer. Well you are wrong. Unless you have already made this Mashed Potatoes Recipe with White and Sweet Potatoes.

And don’t get me started on that garbage that comes out of the box. If you think they are real mashed potatoes, then you are crazy. This culinary “dual” of white and sweet potatoes mashed together offers up delicious taste along with a nice texture. A real mashed potatoes recipe takes just a little bit of work, but is worth it. Are you up to the job?

How To Make Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

3 large sweet potatoes, scrubbed
3 large baking potatoes, scrubbed
Enough vegetable oil to rub the potatoes
1/2 cup of heavy cream
1/2 cup chicken broth
2 teaspoons bottled horseradish, drained (get that out of a box!)
Salt and ground Black Pepper to taste

Directions

Preheat oven to 325F
Rub the skins of the potatoes with the vegetable oil
Prick holes into the potatoes with a fork (so they won’t explode)
Place the potatoes on a cookie sheet; then place the cookie sheet on the lowest rack in the oven.
Bake the potatoes for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until they are easily pierced by a sharp knife.
Test the sweet potatoes after one hour
When the potatoes are finished cooking let them cool until you can easily handle them.
Cut all the potatoes lengthwise in half
Scoop the pulp from the white potatoes into a large bowl.
Mash the pulp briefly.
Now scoop the flesh from the sweet potatoes into the same bowl.
Set the bowl aside.
In a one quart saucepan bring the cream and chicken broth to a boil; remove from heat.
Use an electric mixer set to medium speed, slowly beat cream mixture into reserved potatoes until they are smooth and fluffy.
Beat in horseradish, salt and pepper.

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Baked Sweet Potato Chips Recipe

Potato Chef — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:08:57 +0000

There are many recipes you can make with a sweet potato, but none are more fun or addictive that this Baked Sweet Potato Chips Recipe. A baked sweet potato made into chips is one of life’s simple pleasures. This sweet potato chips recipe is easy, simple, and quick to make. This is also a very healthy snack.

Let me give you my spiel about a potato slicer. You know the infomercial slicers you see on TV? The ones that can slice a tomato, onion, potato, or anything else as thin as a strand of hair? Well you know what? They actually do work. The beauty of the slicer, besides the fact that they make life easier, is that they slice each slice of the potato at the exact same thickness, which makes for a much better sweet potato chip recipe. This is important when you cook the potato slices. If they are all the same thickness they will all cook evenly. You can pick a slicer up at Wal-Mart or a dollar store. The most you should pay is $15. Believe me it is well worth it.

How To Make Sweet Potato Chips

Ingredients

3 sweet potatoes, washed, peeled and sliced (about 1/8 inch thick–get the slicer)
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

Preheat oven to 375F
Try and pat all of the moisture off of the sweet potato slices (use a paper towel)
Lay out the slices on a couple sheets of paper towels
Heat the oil in a skillet
Add the curry powder. Cook until the mixture become fragrant. Probably no more than 30 seconds. Don’t over do it.
Remove from the heat, stir in the paprika and then drizzle over the potatoes.
Sprinkle the slices with salt
Lay the slices out on a non-stick baking sheet.
Put in oven for 10-15 minutes (until slightly brown)
Turn the slices over and bake for an additional 5 minutes or so (don’t let them burn)
Let cool. The chips will lose their soggy factor as they cool

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Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe

Potato Chef — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:02:00 +0000

A homemade Sweet Potato Casserole really hits the spot. Whether you are making it as a side dish for Sunday night dinner, or one of the show stoppers of a holiday get-together, the sweet potato casserole is always the right choice.

This homemade recipe is one that is authentic, delicious, and sure to be a crowd pleaser.

How To Make The Sweet Potato Casserole

Ingredients

3 cups cooked mashed sweet potatoes (4-5 medium potatoes)
3/4 to 1 cup white sugar
2 eggs beaten
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter (substitute margarine if you want)
1/2 cup raisins
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Topping Ingredients

3/4 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 cup chopped nuts (pecans)
1/3 cup softened butter (substitute margarine if you want)

Directions

Microwave the sweet potatoes. Wrap each potato in clear plastic wrap and cook in microwave. 6 minutes per potato should be about right, but check to make sure they are cooked completely. Don’t poke a hole in them. Be careful when unwrapping the plastic…because of the hot steam
Remove the skin from the sweet potatoes. Do Not refrigerate the potatoes at this point. It will make them grainy.
Mash the sweet potatoes
Mix into the mashed sweet potatoes: the sugar, eggs, salt, butter, raisins, milk, and vanilla.
Pour the mixture into a 9×9 baking dish
Now mix the topping ingredients together.
Spread the topping on the top of the potato mixture
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes

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