Sweet potatoes

[Booktigger]

How do you cook them? I want to have it as a jacket - is it the same amount of time as a normal spud, or do they take longer?

[dinahsmum]

No - they cook considerably quicker than normal spuds. About half the time, I think

[Booktigger]

Good job I asked then!! won't be having it till tomorrow, should I just put it in the oven for half an hour and see how it goes?

[dinahsmum]

I would think that would do it - maybe check at 20 minutes?

[EmmaG]

I have found that a medium sweet potatoe takes about 30-45 mins to cook at about 200c, I usually cook my normal white potatoes for about 1 hour 15-30 mins.

[Booktigger]

I really enjoyed the one I had last night, so much so that I went and bought another for dinner - it is cooking at the mo!! Only prob is they are so much larger than normal potatoes, I managed to find a small one today, but couldn't finish last nights. And they are much more expensive.

[EmmaG]

Glad you liked them BT, however I do not find them larger than normal jacket potatoes, if anything the ones I have found in Essex seem to be smaller??

[yola]

They come in all different sizes here - from tiny to enormous!!! Glad you like it though - it's much more nutritious than an ordinary potato. Why not just use 1/2 of a really big one if it really is too big for you? You could always roast the remaining 1/2 for the next day's dinner :D

[Booktigger]

Do you cook the potato and keep the second half, or chop it and fridge the other half? The local greengrocer had some that were really funny shapes!! I don't tend to roast potatoes, nothing to go with them being a vegi!!

[yola]

BT - I give sweet potatoes to my little boy regularly. Coz he's small, he can usually only manage 1/2 of one. The other half I'll wrap tightly in cling film and store in the fridge. They tend to keep very well when refridgerated!

[Donna]

Glad you liked them BT, however I do not find them larger than normal jacket potatoes, if anything the ones I have found in Essex seem to be smaller??

Ones in Kent are quite small and not round - long thin wiggly things!!! :shock:

Or did I buy the wrong thing??:roll: :roll: :-D :-D

[EmmaG]

ok I am just going to have to take a couple of photos aren't I lol :-D

[EmmaG]

ok one potato, about 5" long :-D

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g176/Egarnham/sp002.jpg

two potatoes :)

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g176/Egarnham/sp005.jpg

[Mags]

This link may give you some interesting reading on sweet potatoes......

http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Ency/Index.cfm/Id/1963002

[Booktigger]

Most of them here look like that - they are a different shape to white potatoes!! And more to them than normal pototoes too. Bought the smallest the greengrocers had earlier and still couldn't manage it all.