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Sweet Potatoes - From mashed potatoes to dessert

The ginger root vegetable is known in the world as sweet potato. It seems that it appeared in stores a long time ago and is already quite casually on the shelves next to ordinary potatoes. But in the home kitchen, sweet potatoes never really took off. Perhaps because their frankly sweet taste inevitably evokes an association with frozen tubers?

 

Meanwhile, in Latin America, where sweet potatoes come from, they are used in both tail and crest: they make an imitation of stir-fries from sweet tubers and use in mashed potatoes, cakes, and cream for desserts. After all, the sweetness of potatoes with a sweet potato flavor is far from everything. If you taste and love, there is plenty of pumpkins, pear, and banana taste all at once.

 

We've asked the chefs to tell you how to get the best out of sweet potatoes. And it turns out that the sweet tubers are well suited not only for exotic dishes but also for long-familiar recipes such as Italian gnocchi, Middle Eastern hummus, or eggs Benedict.

 

Boiled sweet potato pie

Tropical notes magically appear in this unusual serving of Eggs Benedict served by Chef Maxime Sorokin of Gae Sang Café. Sweet potatoes give pancakes a sweet taste, so it seems that some exotic fruit such as guava is added to the dough. Sesame seeds are scattered on the shiny surface of the red turmeric mayonnaise outwardly resembling a passion fruit pulp.

 

Sweet potato hummus with shrimp

 

Chickpea, which is the main ingredient in chickpeas, dries up a bit on its own. Therefore, a delicate sweet potato cream is the addition to the hummus that hummus would like to ask about if they knew how to talk. In addition, sweet potatoes perfectly create the bitterness of sesame tahini and serve as a favorable background for fried garlic shrimp, which also have sweet notes. Andrey Palisica, Chef of Irwin Restaurant. Rekamoreocean", brings all the puzzle elements together, sniping to balance the plate.

 

Sweet potato gnocchi with sage and spinach

 

If in Italy gnocchi is made from regular potatoes, then in the Middle East (for example, in Israel) sweet potatoes are used. Otherwise, this is a classic recipe with ricotta and Parmesan. Sweet potato pillows have a very delicate, even sweet taste. Therefore, the chef of Rick's Bar & Bistro Restaurant Artem Petrin rightly believes that there is no sauce, except for sage oil, this gnocchi is useless.

 

Baked sweet potato and dzatziki salad

 

The flavor of hot sweet potatoes benefits greatly when paired with cold cucumbers and sour cream sauce. The green salad seems to live on the plate on its own, but in fact, everyone here plays and sings together: the crunch of almond petals, the sticky tenderness of sweet potatoes, and the greens, which enliven the taste. In total, Maria Gorcheva, chef of the Polet restaurant, turned out to be a complete delicacy that does not require meat or a side dish.

 

Duck thigh confit with sweet potato and caponata

 

Instead of duck leg, this recipe would have included, for example, beef, roast chicken. This would still be an excellent illustration of the fact that sweet potatoes as a side dish look more elegant than regular potatoes. Especially its sweetness on the face of "wild meat", which the duck also refers to. If you want to exactly repeat the recipe from Ruslan Zakirov, chef of the Kuznya House restaurant, a detailed description of how to make duck legs can be found here.

 

Sweet potatoes with wild rice and avocado cream

 

Sweet potatoes are one of Australian chef Glenn Bales' favorite foods. He created something about it for each of his restaurants, but he never repeated it. Avocado Queen's version is simple: On the bottom is a pillow of wild rice seeds in a thin creamy sauce, a slice of baked sweet potato, and on top, there's avocado pulp mashed with herbs that contrast in texture with all the other layers. It is amazingly simple, yet beautiful and juicy, with pure flavors and pure colors.

 

Carrot cake with sweet potato

 

Sweet potatoes are made from sweet potatoes all over America. Everything is simple here: Take the classic carrot cake recipe and replace some carrots with sweet potatoes. Andrei Nesterenko, head chef at Chinook, a unique Latin American restaurant, does just that. In a cream cake, sweet potatoes taste like fried bananas or baked apples. And do not think that since sweet potatoes are sweet, you need to put less sugar: you need to put exactly less sugar as stated in the recipe. And for a splash, add more cinnamon, vanilla, and quince jam.