Broken sweet potatoes

[curly_kate]

Well, we did it again - waited until way too late to dig our sweet potatoes, so they are GINORMOUS. In trying to dig them out, DH & I broke a bunch of them. I hate to just toss them, even if it is to the chickens. Can I cure them, or should I process them right away in some manner?

 

[NwMtGardener]

Since you can peel and can regular potatoes, i wonder if that would work for sweet potatoes? Or maybe...slice them thin and bake/dehydrate them into sweet potato chips? Umm...i've cheese grated regular cold baked potatoes, and stuck them in the freezer for hash browns...wonder how that would be.

 

[curly_kate]

Do sweet potatoes taste ok if you don't cure them?

 

[so lucky]

How do most of you cook your sweet potatoes? My DH would refuse to eat a sweet potato until I started frying them like regular white potatoes. As long as I use an oil we are comfortable eating, it's wonderful. And they are great fried till brown and seasoned with garlic salt and ground hot pepper.

 

[baymule]

Sweet potatoes:
Baked, stuffed with butter
Sliced thin, fried in butter, sprinkled with sugar
Sweet potato fries

Sweet potato casserole
Bake several sweet potatoes, peel and cut in chunks
Zest 1 orange
Section the orange, squeeze the juice from the membranes
1/2 cup pecans, broken into pieces
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 Tablespoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon mace
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Stir it all together with a spoon, put in buttered casserole dish. Top with pats of butter, bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 45 minutes.

Sweet potato and pork stir fry
Peel one large sweet potato, cut in slices
cube a pound of pork steak
6 dried red cayenne peppers
1 bell pepper, cut in big pieces
1 onion, cut in pieces
4 cloves of garlic, chopped
1/2 cup pecans, peanuts or favorite nuts
McCormick's Caribbean Jerk Seasoning

Saute pork in oil with dried peppers and nuts, set aside. Stir fry vegetables until hot, leave crisp. Add meat mixture to vegetables, sprinkle liberally with Caribbean Jerk Seasoning. Stir it all together, simmer a few minutes and serve over rice or quinoa.

 

[bobm]

Sweet potato pie... tastes just like pumpkin pie and prepared the same way.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Well, we did it again - waited until way too late to dig our sweet potatoes, so they are GINORMOUS. In trying to dig them out, DH & I broke a bunch of them. I hate to just toss them, even if it is to the chickens. Can I cure them, or should I process them right away in some manner?

TOSS THEM? You have a gold mine. I oven baked my tiny teeny little bitty barely can call a potato sweet potatoes last night. Family loved it. Lots of recipes for oven fries. You can use different seasoning, which ever you like. Good going on GINORMOUS sweet potatoes!

 

[curly_kate]

Thanks! I just wasn't sure if I could cure the ones that were broken.

 

[ducks4you]

I LOVE sweet potato pie!
You can dehydrate them, but you must use a pressure canner to put them into jars. They are low acid and will spoil if you just hot bath them.

 

[Ridgerunner]

If you let them set for a while, they will probably heal themselves. Leave them out where they can get good air, but out of the sun. The damaged ones may not store as long as the undamaged ones, but they do a great job of healing themselves. Just make sure they have healed over before you put them in storage.

I have canned sweet potatoes. I dont remember exactly what I did but it does take a long processing time with a pressure canner. You can check online or maybe in the ball book. Its really nice when you are in a hurry for supper to just open a jar of sweet potatoes that are fully cooked.

My normal method of cooking them is to slice them and put them on a large frying pan on the stove top. Add a fair amount of water and cook with the lid on. Stir occasionally to keep them from sticking. Mom adds sugar and cooks the liquid down to a syrup.

All those other methods are good too. Sweet potatoes go real well with brown sugar or maple syrup as a sweetener. Really pairs well with butter. Id say cinnamon or nutmeg for spices, maybe allspice.