Seasoning Sweet Potatoes: These Are The Best Tips and Ideas

Seasoning sweet potatoes: A savory variant

Stuffed sweet potatoes are a tasty and hearty meal to fill up on a healthy meal. Garlic and feta cheese give the tuber the necessary spice and complement its sweet aroma.

• Ingredients (2 servings): 2 sweet potatoes, 1 onion, 1 clove of garlic, 60 g feta cheese, 60 g young spinach leaves, 3 tbsp parmesan, salt, pepper
• First, wash and halve the sweet potatoes. Score the surfaces with a knife to reduce cooking time.
• Line a baking tray with baking paper and place the halved sweet potatoes in the oven preheated to 200° C with top/bottom heat. The cooking time is around 40 minutes.
• Meanwhile, peel and dice the onion put it in a saucepan with a little oil, and fry the cubes until translucent.
• Press the garlic into the pot and add the spinach, some water, parmesan, salt, and pepper. Let everything simmer for 5 minutes.
• After 40 minutes, remove the sweet potato halves from the oven and set the heat to around 150°C.
• Hollow out the sweet potatoes and mix the mixture and the chopped feta cheese into the cooked spinach.
• Fill the sweet potato halves with the spinach and feta mixture and then put the whole thing back in the oven for about 10 minutes.
• When the cheese has melted, you can take the stuffed sweet potatoes out of the oven and let them cool down a bit. Enjoy your meal!

Sweets with sweet potatoes

Sweet potato cream is a delicious dessert. With milk and sugar, you can conjure up a tasty dessert from the sweet potato.

• Ingredients (2 servings): 1 sweet potato, 280 ml milk, 50 g sugar, flaked almonds
• Wash and peel the sweet potato and cut it into slices.
• Now put the cubes in a saucepan and pour in 200 ml of milk.
• Let it simmer until the diced sweet potatoes are done.
• Remove the pot from the heat and finely mash the sweet potato pieces.
• Add the remaining milk and sugar and mix well.
• Let the mass simmer on the stove at a low temperature for a few minutes until it has a creamy consistency.
• Refrigerate the cream for at least half an hour if you want to serve it cold.
• Now you can arrange the sweet potato cream in dessert bowls and decorate with slivered almonds.

Snack to go: sweet potatoes to go

The sweet potato chips with avocado dip are a tasty and crunchy snack that is easy to take with you. You can nibble the finger food without cutlery and satisfy your small hunger in a healthy way, no matter where you are.

• Ingredients (1 serving): 1 sweet potato, 1 avocado, ½ tbsp lemon, olive oil, salt, pepper, oregano if necessary, paprika powder, garlic spice, nutmeg
• Wash the sweet potato and cut into thin slices with the skin on. It is best to use a mandolin for this.
  Place the slices in a bowl and add a tablespoon of olive oil.
• Season the sweet potato slices with salt and pepper, optionally with oregano or paprika powder.
• Place the seasoned slices on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
• Bake the whole thing in the preheated oven at 200° C and top/bottom heat for about 30 minutes. After 15 minutes you should turn the slices.
• Remember to keep checking the tan towards the end so the chips don’t burn.
• After the specified time, allow the sweet potato chips to cool for at least a quarter of an hour. Then they will be even crunchier.
• For the avocado dip, peel an avocado and mash it with a fork.
• Squeeze a lemon and add half a tablespoon of lemon juice to the avocado.
• Season the avocado and lemon mixture with salt and pepper. Optionally, you can refine the dip with garlic spice, paprika powder, or nutmeg.