sweet potatoes!

[elle camino]

hey hey, foodie board. i know i'm not a regular poster here, but i read around a lot and i trust you guy's resourcefulness completely.
i post on another board where there's a general culinary questions thread, and someone brought up sweet potatoes, which got me to thinking.
i'll just go ahead and quote my own post in that thread, actually:

i WANT to like sweet potatoes, but so far i really haven't had any that i've found super tasty. there really aren't many good ways to prepare them, in my opinion.

mashed: ew. too soft and slimy. not starchy enough. the only way to do it well is to mash about 3 or 4 russets in with the sweet potatoes, and then you're basically just making regular mashies only wasting some extra money on sweet potatoes you won't even really taste.

casserole: even when people don't fuck it up by dumping tons of sugary crap like marshmallows on the top, it's still really too sweet and the texture of the potatoes is still hella off-putting.

fries: those can be really good. but they can also be really dry and icky and not good. and 9 times out of ten it's the latter.

basically what i want is a non-slimy, non-sugary, acceptably savory, non-fried way to make sweet potatoes.

...does a recipe like this even exist? i seriously hope so, since i don't like completely writing off such a lovely, historically all-american veggie like the sweet potato.

 

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