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Adding Healthy Sweet Potatoes To Your Daily Cooking Repertoire
Sweet potatoes are trending and are all the rage—as they should be! One medium California sweet potato has only 105 calories and 0g of fat, yet this versatile veggie contains more than 80 nu- trients including protein,
manganese, carotene, po- tassium, calcium, vitamin C and more than an entire day’s worth of vitamin A. Plus, sweet potatoes are rich with antioxidants and loaded with dietary fiber— nearly twice as much as a white potato.
Not just for Thanksgiv-
ing, thankfully, sweet po-
tatoes are available year-
round. Chefs and home
cooks are coming up with
fun and creative ways (be-
yond Grandma’s holiday casserole) to incorpo- rate this tasty tuber into everyday meals—winter, spring, summer and fall.
Here are some delicious ways to cook with Cal- ifornia sweet potatoes:
• For a quick snack, add a cooked California sweet potato (or two) to your favorite hummus recipe, garnish with a good glug of olive oil and a generous squirt of lemon. Serve with crudités and pita triangles.
• Make a beta-carotene-rich soup by adding uniformly chopped California sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and carrots to a homemade or store-bought chicken stock. Throw in a can of white beans, a handful or two of kale and garnish with chopped flat-leaf parsley. Serve with freshly grated Parmesan.
• What’s better than home fries for breakfast? California sweet potato home fries! Switch out white potatoes for sweet potatoes, throw in some chopped onions, bell pepper and a sprinkle of cayenne or paprika and you’ve got sweet potatoes O’Brien to go with your bacon and eggs.
• Mashed sweet potatoes make a delicious ac- companiment to a store-bought or homemade roasted chicken. Steam the sweet potatoes until
tender, mash, and stir in warmed butter and milk. For garlic mashed, simply throw a few cloves of garlic into the steamer and mash them with the sweet potatoes.
This breakfast strata made with tasty, wholesome sweet potatoes can be a great way to punch up a brunch buffet.
Brunch is always a great way to entertain family and friends. Whether it’s Mother’s Day or a regular old Sunday, why not wow your guests with a de- licious spread? Cof- fee, mimosas, Danish, croissants, fruit salad and of course some- thing with eggs.
This breakfast strata will more than satisfy:
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