Eat This: Sweet 'Taters
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 7:00AM Sweet potatoes. I LOVE sweet potatoes. My favorite vegetables, in ascending order, are...
5) Kale
4) Broccoli
3) Snow peas
2) Asparagus
1) Sweet potatoes. Sweet po-tay-toes
If the meal involves sweet potatoes, I love it already. Even when I was a child and too ridiculous to realize that vegetables were delicious, I loved them.
A couple weeks ago, Bossyboots made me dinner. That dinner involved steamed broccoli, pork tenderloin rolled in herbs, and sweet potatoes. I loved it so much that yesterday I made the sweet potatoes and broccoli again all by themselves - just because I loved them so much:
Now, you will see a sheen on the potatoes. That's because I was too heavyhanded with the olive oil. So you guys tone that down so you don't get a heart attack.
Here's how you make them:
- Slice peeled sweet potatoes into 3/4 inch discs.
- In a microwave-safe dish, toss the sweet potatoes with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper. Then heat the sweet potatoes in the microwave for 5-7 minutes. Now, I know what you're thinking: "MICROWAVE?!?!?" Just do it.
- THEN, take the sweet potatoes out of the microwave and fry them up in a pan already heated up with about a teaspoon of olive oil, NOT a tablespoon, like you see above. You'll know they're done when they look a titch crispy/brown on each side (make sure you flip them.)
Is this the healthiest way to eat sweet potatoes? No. But they are dead tasty, and you can just balance them out with a fistful of broccoli, as I did. :D
Reader Comments (4)
I love curry powder on my sweet potatoes. Delicious!!!!!!!
If you have any kale recipes to share, please let me know! I've only had kale 3 times, and I must say, I wasn't a fan :(
you need to post some of your favorite ways to cook kale! I've never really been a fan but would be interested to get into it if I knew it was tasty!
lol. just realized my post is almost identical to the one above me. totally didn't know. random. funny.