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Sweet Potatoes (aka yams/kumara)

watna · 2008-02-09 21:25:11

I saw a recipe on tv the other day for chips made from sweet potato (cut the potatoes into chips, mix with olive oil, paprika and cayenne pepper and cook in the oven for 40 minutes). Made them tonight and it was delicious! I've been looking recipes etc up online as we're looking to reduce our carb content. I'm presuming…

09-02-2008 10:25pm

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I saw a recipe on tv the other day for chips made from sweet potato (cut the potatoes into chips, mix with olive oil, paprika and cayenne pepper and cook in the oven for 40 minutes). Made them tonight and it was delicious! I've been looking recipes etc up online as we're looking to reduce our carb content. I'm presuming that sweet potatoes are failry carbohydratey (if that's a word!). According to wikipedia they're better nutritonally than normal potatoes. Is this correct? We really enjoyed the sweet potato chips tonight so we were thinking of trying to cook things with sweet potato more. If they are better for you we'll definitely do this. Anybody have any info?

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#2 10-02-2008 12:23pm

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I had a thread here that gives some good info about them.

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You could also try: Parsnips, Carrots or Butternutsquash cooked in a similar fashion.

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#4 11-02-2008 2:33pm

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Just a point - yams are not kumara/sweet potato....Sweet potato is called a yam in some parts of the USA, but the Asian shops in Dublin that sell yams are not as easily confused.

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