I know sweet potatoes are full of good stuff. They are good for you to eat, but I didn’t think I liked them. I mean they are SWEET right? Well, recently I saw a recipe for roasted sweet potatoes. You know how I love roasted veggies. So I thought I would give it a try one day. While my hubby and I were buying veggies today we bought some sweet potatoes. Today was the day! By the time we got home from our Christmas Tree excursion, I didn’t want to look for the recipe. I figured that just knowing you can roast them was good enough for me.
Since I am not familiar with sweet potatoes I didn’t know what flavor to give them. My plan was onions and shallots, but my hubby was saying that they ARE sweet so I thought maybe a more sweet flavor would be better. Hmmmm? So I decided on both.
I cooked a pan of “sweet” sweet potatoes and a pan of savory sweet potatoes. Now I know why I didn’t think I liked sweet potatoes . . . . they ARE sweet. So to me they don’t need to be cooked with sweet flavors.
In my “sweet” pan I used lemon olive oil, lavender salt, and salt. In the savory pan, I used garlic olive oil, shallots, white onions, smoked garlic salt, and salt. I decided I liked the savory ones better. The potatoes themselves are sweet enough, to me they don’t need additional sweet flavoring. As you may remember sweet potatoes were on the list of anti-inflammatory foods. Yay! So that is one of the health benefits. They are also a great source of complex carbs and antioxidants! Here is some nutrient information about sweet potatoes:
(a cup of baked sweet potato with skin has about:)
—-180 Calories
—-72 mgs of sodium
—-41 grams of carbohydrates
—-7 grams of dietary fiber
—-4 grams of protein
—-769% of the RDA’s Daily Value of Vitamin A (WHOA!)
—-8 % Calcium
—-65% Vitamin C
—-8% of Iron
Eating a little “good” fat with this (like the olive oil) helps your body absorb that vitamin A (beta-carotene).
This veggie really packs a punch. I am going to try cooking it different ways. Do you eat sweet potatoes? How do you cook them?
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