Double or triple this recipe and it’s great to serve with turkey or baked ham and goes terrifically with Swedish Christmas ham. Believe me I know! I can just see all the Swedes giggling! But for me it works well. At holiday meals it’s hard to beat mashed potatoes but you could serve sweet potato mash or even this recipe and white mashed potatoes which I do at Thanksgiving.
Sweet potatoes and yams take less time to cook than regular potatoes. They bake, boil or steam in about half the time.
Test as you would for potatoes using the tip of a small pointed knife for doneness.
The differences between a Yam and a sweet potato are; Yams come from the genus Discorea and sweet potatoes come from the genus Impomea which really makes them a different plant. Sweet potatoes have a darker brick color and are very high in vitamin A, and have a more moist texture, while yams are colored bright orange and have almost no vitamin A and are dryer in texture. Neither yams nor sweet potatoes store well and should be bought when needed; you can keep them in the bottom of the refrigerator if you need to keep them for a week or two. Both can be used in almost any white potato recipe. The also have the added advantage of lending themselves to being used with fruits. They are almost the same in taste; it is the texture that is slightly different.
You simply couldn’t serve Thanksgiving turkey without candied sweet potatoes or sweet potatoes of some kind. But they are good all autumn long and go great with Swedish Christmas ham. It’s a shame that they are so expensive here in Sweden because the kids love them as much as the grown-ups do.
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