Today's microwave recipe: How to cook a sweet potato in the microwave. It's quick-quick and easy, whether for a fast at-home or office-kitchen lunch or a vegetable for supper.
I didn't mean to mislead. So many readers have clicked on 'microwave sweet potato' -- but wait! don't waste a click, that link leads only to a review of a plastic-wrapped 'microwave sweet potato' that costs twice as much and just isn't necessary. It is so easy to cook a regular sweet potato in the microwave. It's my new go-to lunch! Plus since so many offices have microwaves, this could be a great lunch for work, too - though beware, it takes 10 minutes (or more) to cook a sweet potato in a microwave so might violate office etiquette during prime 'leftover reheat' times.
The source of this microwave technique for cooking sweet potatoes is the always reliable Vegetable Love by Barbara Kafka. Her vegetable cookbook is just so completely thorough! Barbara writes that microwaving a whole sweet potato is suitable for purées and pies, which intimates, doesn't it, that the texture is unpalatable for eating straight from the jacket? Not true! Just slice open a sweet potato cooked in the microwave, add a bit of butter and seasoning and voila, call it lunch! The texture is lovely, the taste is great!
PRICES About those so-called 'microwave sweet potatoes'? When I checked recently, a plastic-wrapped sweet potato costs $1.39 for a 2/3 pound sweet potato. A regular sweet potato about the same weight would sell for only $.66. That's a bargain!
Excuse me, please, it's almost noon. Guess what I'm making for lunch ...
DELICIOUS MICROWAVE SWEET POTATO
Hands-on time: 1 minute
Time to table: 10 minutes for an 850 watt microwave
Makes 1 sweet potato
Time to table: 10 minutes for an 850 watt microwave
Makes 1 sweet potato
1 sweet potato
Wash well but don't peel. Prick skin with tip of knife two or three places. Place on a paper towel in microwave. (I also put a paper towel loosely over top, just in case, but no explosions so far!) Cook on high for 5 minutes. Turn, placing what HAD been on the bottom on top. Cook another 5 minutes. (Microwave strengths vary, experiment with yours til you know.) Vegetable Love says 13 - 15 minutes for 2 one-pound sweet potatoes.
HOW MANY CALORIES, CARBS & WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS IN SWEET POTATOES
Nutrition Information Per 1/4 pound of raw sweet potatoes, flesh, no skins: Per Serving: 86 Cal (1% from Fat, 8% from Protein, 91% from Carb); 2 g Protein; 0 g Tot Fat; 0 g Sat Fat; 0 g Mono Fat; 20 g Carb; 3 g Fiber; 4 g Sugar; 34 mg Calcium; 1 mg Iron; 15 mg Sodium; 0 mg Cholesterol; Weight Watchers 1 point
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~ Maple Ginger Sweet Potatoes ~
~ Fresh Candied Yams ~
~ Parmesan Sweet Potato Fries with Horseradish Sauce ~
~ the difference between yams & sweet potatoes ~
~ more sweet potato recipes ~
from A Veggie Venture
~ Turkey Sweet Potato Soup ~
~ Chicken Cider Stew ~
~ Confetti Potato Salad ~
~ more sweet potato recipes ~
from Kitchen Parade, my food column
~ Sweet Potato Buttermilk Rolls ~
from Pinch My Salt
~ Sweet Potato Falafel ~
from Fatfree Vegan Kitchen
~ Spicy Sweet Potato Fries ~
from Kalyn's Kitchen
~ more recipes for sweet potatoes ~
via Food Blog Search, a hand-selected list of the best food blogs
from all across the world
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HealthCentral's MyDietExercise.com picked A Veggie Venture as one of its best sites dedicated to diet and exercise! I'm so pleased that my collection of vegetable recipes shares the list with personal idol Hungry Girl, the Diet Blog and others. Many thanks to MyDietExercise.com and especially, a big big big 'thank you' to all of you who visit here so faithfully; it truly inspires me to seek out new ways of cooking, eating and completely enjoying vegetables.
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Your Comments:
I adore sweet potatoes and a couple of times a year (usually in autumn when they're abundant and on sale) I go on binges and devour pounds and pounds of them. They're so tasty just sprinkled with salt that I can never figure out why so many people drown them under oodles of sugar and (gasp) marshmallows! Of course I've never had one of those marshmallow casseroles, so I probably shouldn't say anything. : )
Again, congratulations!
P.S. Your personalized message under "Leave your comment" is great. I need to figure out how to do that.
sheila
Well deserved honor -- you give us so much!
I went through a phase when I was microwaving a sweet potato for lunch almost every day. They really are an inexpensive and filling meal.
I'm finally back from vacation and I've been catching up on my blogging. I just wanted to say that it was great meeting you last week. You are such a warm and friendly person! Thank you again for getting things set up and making sure everyone was taken care of. I had a great time getting to know some other bloggers.
The sweet potato is my most favorite vegetable and I have it very often. While I do prepare it mostly like you do, I have never cooked it in the microwave but I can see how that would save so much time and energy. I love mine with a bit of butter and a sprinkling of sugar, or maybe just butter alone, or as a stew. There's so much you can do with it. :)
Lydia ~ Thanks! It pleases me much that this is a go-to for you, another food writer.
Kalyn ~ Thanks! Yes, what an easy lunch.
Farmgirl ~ Thanks! I've never 'gotten' that sugary business either. PS The message is a new setting on Blogger.
Sarabeth ~ THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
Shelia ~ Thanks!
Kelly ~ Then you'll love this new technique, too.
Evaga ~ That's a great way to do mashed sweet potatoes, sounds delicious.
Susan ~ Thanks! Psst. Maybe we shouldn't tell people that sweet potatoes are good for them, just that they taste good! :-)
Susan V ~ Thanks! Food stages, yes. I'm that way too.
Cynthia ~ Thanks~
Katie ~ Agreed!! Our food blogger supper was just amazing, it was so terrific to meet you too. I thank you for coming all the way into the city to meet all these 'strangers' (for about 10 seconds, right?!)
Christine ~ Thanks! Your favorite? Good choice! A bit of butter and a sprinkle of sugar, decadent!!
I'm LOVIN' yours, too, so KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! :D
Jimmy Moore
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Could be this particular tater was too small for the whole 10 minute duration...I think 3-4 minutes might have been better for this one.
Perhaps the instructions should read, "put sweet potato in, and check it after each minute or so"
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