List of sweet potato dishes explained

This is a list of notable sweet potato dishes. The sweet potato is a starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots used as a root vegetable.^{[1] [2]} The young shoots and leaves are sometimes eaten as greens. The sweet potato is only distantly related to the common potato (Solanum tuberosum), both being in the order Solanales. Although darker sweet potatoes are often referred to as "yams" in parts of North America, the species is not a true yam, which are monocots in the order Dioscoreales.^[3]

Sweet potato dishes

• Camote cue – a popular snack food in the Philippines made from camote (sweet potato)
• Camote halaya – a variant of Ube halaya that uses mashed sweet potato, it is sometimes known as "camote delight" or "sweet potato jam"
• Dulce de batata – a traditional Argentine, Paraguayan, Uruguayan and Brazilian sweet jelly dessert prepared using sweet potatoes. It resembles a marmalade because of its hard texture. In Brazil it is known as marrom glacê.
• Fried sweet potato – utilized in a variety of dishes and cuisines, a popular preparation is sweet potato fries
• Hoshi-imo – generally consists of steamed, dried, sweet potatoes that are skinned and sliced, it is a snack food that is popular in Japan and similar to a number of other dried foods in Asia.
• Japchae – a savory and slightly sweet dish of stir-fried glass noodles and vegetables that is popular in Korean cuisine,^[4] it is typically prepared with dangmyeon (당면, 唐麵), a type of cellophane noodles made from sweet potato starch. The noodles are mixed with assorted vegetables, meat, mushrooms, and seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}
• Potato pancake – some variations of the potato pancake are made using sweet potatoes.^{[9] [10]}
• Pudding and souse – a traditional dish in Barbadian cuisine consisting of pickled pork, pork blood pudding, grated and spiced sweet potatoes and pumpkin^[11]
• Purple sweet potato haupia pie – a Hawaiian dish that incorporates purple sweet potatoes and haupia,^[12] It is similar to the sweet potato pie that originated in the Southern United States.^[12] and is often prepared using Okinawan sweet potatoes which are purple in color.^[12]
• Roasted sweet potato – a popular winter street food in East Asia^[13]
• Soetpatats – an Afrikaans dish and originates from South Africa, it is commonly served as a side dish at braais (barbecues), often served alongside snoek (Thyrsites).^{[14] [15]} It is often baked in a dutch oven and typically prepared using sweet potatoes, butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.^[16]
• Sweet potato pie – a traditional dessert originating in the Southern United States among the African American community, it is often served during the American holiday season, especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas in place of pumpkin pie.
• Sweet potato salad – an Arab salad prepared using sweet potato, onion, mashed garlic, raisins, olive oil and a variety of spices.
• Sweet potato soup – a Chinese dessert found in Southern China and Hong Kong
• Taro ball – a traditional Taiwanese cuisine dessert made of taro and sweet potato flour or potato flour

Beverages

• Shōchū – a Japanese distilled beverage typically distilled from rice (kome), barley (mugi), sweet potatoes (satsuma-imo), buckwheat (soba), or brown sugar (kokutō), though it is sometimes produced from other ingredients such as chestnut, sesame seeds, potatoes, or even carrots.

See also

• List of potato dishes
• List of sweet potato cultivars
• List of sweet potato diseases
• List of vegetable dishes

Notes and References

1. Book: Purseglove, John Williams . 1968 . Tropical crops: D . Longman Scientific and Technical . John Wiley and Sons . New York . 978-0-582-46666-1.
2. Book: Woolfe, Jennifer A. . Sweet Potato: An Untapped Food Resource . 5 March 1992 . Cambridge, UK . Cambridge University Press and the International Potato Center (CIP) . 978-0-521-40295-8.
3. Book: Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations . Emory Dean Keoke . Kay Marie Porterfield . 2009 . Infobase Publishing . 256 . 978-0-8160-4052-0.
4. Web site: 주요 한식명(200개) 로마자 표기 및 번역(영, 중, 일) 표준안. National Institute of Korean Language. 30 July 2014. ko. PDF. 22 August 2017.
   • 2 May 2014 . ko:주요 한식명 로마자 표기 및 표준 번역 확정안 공지 . http://www.korean.go.kr/front/board/boardStandardView.do?board_id=4&mn_id=17&b_seq=1465 . . ko.
5. News: Gluten-free, soya-free and sesame-free Korean japchae stir-fry. Booth. Susanna. 4 April 2014. The Guardian. 22 August 2017.
6. News: Korean stir-fried glass noodles, 'japchae'. Tanumihardja. Patricia. 25 February 2015. The Christian Science Monitor. 22 August 2017.
7. News: Best Korean dishes: 40 foods we can't live without. Kim. Violet. 13 July 2017. CNN Travel. 22 August 2017.
8. News: Jamie Oliver's recipes for World Cup watching. Oliver. Jamie. 31 May 2014. The Guardian. 22 August 2017.
9. Book: Moose, Debbie. UNC Press Books. 978-1-4696-1790-9. Southern Holidays: a Savor the South cookbook. 2014-09-15.
10. Web site: Sweet Potato Latkes, 2 Ways. Food Network. 8 November 2018.
11. Book: Pariser, H.S. . Explore Barbados . Manatee Press . Explore Barbados . 2000 . 978-1-893643-51-2 . es . 3 April 2022 . 65.
12. Book: Namkoong, J. . Huo . R. . Go Home, Cook Rice: A Guide to Buying and Cooking the Fresh Foods of Hawaiʻi . Namkoong Pub. . 2001 . 978-0-9643359-2-9 . 15 September 2019 . 104.
13. Book: Maiti, R. . Rodríguez . H.G. . Sarkar . N.C. . WORLD VEGETABLE AND TUBER CROPS . American Academic Press . 1st . 2017 . 978-1-63181-868-4 . 4 April 2022 . 504.
14. Web site: This South African Snoek Braai Recipe with Apricot Jam is the Ultimate Easter Meal. 23 January 2021. www.capetownmagazine.com. en.
15. Web site: Function Venue That Faces The Simonsberg. 23 January 2021. Kanonkop. en-US.
16. Web site: Soetpatats. 23 January 2021. SARIE.