sweet potato ideas???

[Elizabeth]

I have two sweet potatoes I need to use pretty quickly, and I have never made anything Raw with them before.. Any favorite Ideas???

Thanks...:D

[SchoolOfRAWk]

Sweet Potato Soup (tastes like candy & helps sleep due to high tryptophan levels!)

Peel sweet potatoes and chunk. Soak for 10 - 12 hours or overnight --- this is to get rid of the starches.

Blend with soaked dates/raisins, Pecans/Walnuts and Pumpkin Pie Seasoning until sweet and yummy.

Enjoy! Mmmm!

[SchoolOfRAWk]

P.S. Add water as needed - or use the raisin/date soak water.

Note: When I do the "/" I mean either/or. It's a very flexible recipe!

[Rawkinlocs]

Aside from thinly slicing with a mandoline or spiral slicer-type and making seasoned, dehydrated chips; here are a few previously-posted recipes for sweet potatoes/yams:

Sweet Potato Souffle with Pecan Topping
from sprout raw food
Serves 8

Ingredients:

4-5 cups sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
20 medjool dates, pitted
1 vanilla bean
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons coconut butter
3 cups water
1 teaspoon psyllium (more if needed for thicker consistency)
1 cup pecans, chopped. (Can also mix with chopped walnuts)

Steps:

1. Place dates, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, coconut butter and water in blender. Blend until smooth.

2. Add sweet potatoes and blend until very smooth.

3. Add psyllium, blending well.

4. Let mixture sit for 5-10 minutes to thicken.

5. Blend again until smooth.

6. Top with chopped pecans. Refrigerate.

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(posted by someone from the Hallelujah Acres website)

Raw Sweet Potato Soup

1 cup vegetable soup stock (or distilled water)
3 cups grated sweet potato
1 cup finely chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup fresh parsley (or 1 teaspoon dried parsley)
1 cup fresh carrot juice
1/2 teaspoon dill weed
1/2 teaspoon all-purpose herb blend
Celtic Sea Salt to taste

Grate sweet potatoes, chop celery and onion, and mince parsley. Place half of the sweet potato, celery, parsley, along with all of the onion, in a blender or food processor with soup stock (or water), and blend until smooth. Stir in the carrot juice and seasonings. Add the remaining vegetables to the soup, stir, and serve. Top individual serving bowls with remaining parsley.

Raw Sweet Potato Pie

"With the holidays approaching, I looked for a festive pie to grace my table and display at our Hallelujah Lifestyle meetings. It is always a great hit! Makes two 8-inch pies:

FILLING
3 medium sweet potatoes (peeled & cut into chunks)
6 pitted dates
1/3 cup organic honey
1/4 cup unsweetened coconut
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
2-3 ounces walnuts (ground)

Peel 3 medium sweet potatoes, cut into chunks, and run through a Champion, Green Power, Green Life, or Green Star juicer, along with the 6 pitted dates, using the blank instead of the screen. In a bowl, add to the pulped sweet potato/date mixture, the remaining filling ingredient (honey, coconut, nutmeg, lemon juice, cinnamon, walnuts) and mix well.

CRUST
1 pound pitted dates
1 cup almonds (ground)

Process dates and ground almonds in food processor using the S-blade until the mixture pulls away from the sides to form a ball. Press into pie plate with wet fingers to form a crust. Add filling and cover with topping.

TOPPING
2 ounces ground or chopped walnuts

Refrigerate. Enjoy!

Raw Hot Cream of Carrot-Sweet Potato Soup

4 Carrots
1 small onion
1 Bullion Cube (No MSG)
Very Small Sweet Potato
3 pinch Fresh Nutmeg
1/2 cup Rice Milk
3 cups Hot water

Blend for 4-5 Minutes until smooth Steaming HOT!
I used the Vita-Mix Machine to make this soup smooth and very hot.

A. C.'s Crunchy Raw Cereal

"When I was transitioning to the Hallelujah Diet, I missed my cold cereal in the morning and came up with this recipe and liked it really well." (For those on The Hallelujah Diet, this would make a nice lunch.)

1 small Sweet Potato (grated or flaked)
1/4 cup Raw Almonds or Walnuts (chopped & soaked)
1 Banana (sliced)
Sweet Almond Milk (From RhondaÂ’s Recipes for Life recipe book)

Mix first three ingredients together and pour Sweet Almond Milk over it. It’s crunchy, delicious, and won’t get soggy in the milk.

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Raw sweet potato and leek soup

Ingredients:

1 lb sweet potato
1 lb leek
1 avocado
1 tbsp Braggs seasoning
1 small knob ginger (finely chopped)
1/2 white onion
1 vine-ripened tomato
Celtic sea salt and pepper to taste
1 cups charged water
Procedure:


Peel, wash, and chop the sweet potato and leeks.
Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until the texture is smooth.
Adjust seasoning if necessary.


Raw Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe #151259
Creamy, slightly sweet casserole topped with walnuts. Yes, it's made with raw sweet potato and the texture isn't exactly like your typical sweet potato casserole, but I love it! Tweaked the original recipe from Herbs for Health magazine, which called for dehydrating the nuts. Prep time does not include soaking the nuts overnight.
by yogi
6 servings
30 min 30 min prep
1 1/2 cups pecans or walnuts, soaked overnight, then drained (let dry a bit on a paper towel)
4 cups peeled and chopped sweet potatoes
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup dates, soaked for about 20 minutes
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla (this is not a raw product)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup honey

Put potatoes, 1/2 C nuts, dates, cinnamon and vanilla in processor and puree till smooth.
Pour into a casserole dish.
In another bowl, mix the remaining 1 C nuts with salt and honey, and sprinkle over the potato mixture.
I enjoyed this at room tempurature, but still good straight out of the frig.

SWEET POTATO SALAD: (from a Raw Potluck)
GRATE:
2-3 yams or sweet potatoes
1 C coconut
2-3 apples
1 Tbl to 1/4 C ginger root
*put in large bowl... set aside

*Add in 1 C chopped walnuts (can be soaked and dehydrated if you want)

JUICE (DRESSING)
3 lemons
2 oranges
*juice the lemons and oranges
*can add raw honey or agave to taste
*cinnamon to taste
*whisk dressing... set aside

VARIATIONS: (other things you may want add)
can add pineapple or raisins

*Mix ingredients and toss with dressing... chill and let flavors blend

[Elizabeth]

Thanks!!! that soundslike it would be nice to have during this chilly, rainy weather... :-) also nice that it does not have a lot of other ingredients.. :)

[Wendee]

You can also peel, cube, and freeze for later use.

Thaw in a bowl of water to remove starches.

By freezing them, you don't have to use them upright away...

especially if you don't have all the ingredients to make a recipie with them!:D



Wendy

[Elizabeth]

so many things from which to choose!!! :D Do you know if the vegetable broth mentioned in the first soup recipe is raw, and if so, how people make it??

:)

[Rawkinlocs]

Oh...and what I've personally done with them was to either:

1. Spiralize and use for "pasta" with sauce (it's really good - just spiralize it, rinse it really well to get excess starch off and add your favorite marinara-type sauce! A good friend of mine and my daughter loved it!)

2. Thinly slice and use for rawvioli skins instead of turnips. This was also a hit with my daughter - tried with turnips and neither of us liked it but it was good with the yams/sweet potatoes.

You can also juice them (so I've heard) and perhaps save the pulp in the freezer, inline with what Wendee suggested, for later use in a recipe.

[Rawkinlocs]

so many things from which to choose!!! :D Do you know if the vegetable broth mentioned in the first soup recipe is raw, and if so, how people make it??

:)

Oh I dont' know - I just copied and pasted the list from another post I sent to someone who inquired about sweet potato ideas. I've never tried any of those recipes or even really looked closely at them. Sorry! :o

[Graciebeliever]

SWEET POTATO CURRY

I have been working on different versions of this and I am, by nature, a "Throw it in there" Cook (or uncook). Quantities are optional and as this is really one of my comfort foods when I crave that substatial feeling, it is VERY complex in flavor and some don't like that.

I also don't eat this all the time but if the craving for complex hits me??
WHAM this is my Raw answer to it!!

Base Curry Mixture:

I mix together Raw Olive Oil (Man this stuff is expensive BLAHH)
Finely ground Cumin Seeds - I use my Morter and pestle ( you can use already prepared but look for raw. Hard to find)
Finely crushed/blended Organic Sundried tomatoes that I placed in some Raw Olive Oil and made a paste of.
some Fresh Coriander/cilantro chopped very fine in a food mill
some morter ground coriander seeds kinda corse cuz I like that BLAST of flavor.
Tumeric (go kinda easy until you get the amount that pleases you)
I also add a pinch each of cinnamon, cloves and cardomom (ALL ground in my morter of course)
I add a small amount of Cayanne pepper and this is the biggest matter of taste for people typically.

I mix everything into the Olive Oil and it looks like a liquidy paste.
Let this sit and meld a bit before you put in on the potatoes.
The longer you let it sit the better and richer the flavors are.


3-4 Large Sweet Potatoes Peeled and Ground in the food processor. (DO NOT GRATE THEM) you will not get the best and right effect and the ground lasts longer and are more chewy and the consistancy MATTERS!! I use my food processor and get the pieces near Rice size. Cut the potatoes in chunks first don't try to grind them whole or they get stuck hehe

I place the ground potatoes in a large bowl with room for mixing.

I then open my cabinet and start the journey

I sprinkle on:

Raw/unhulled seasame seeds
Sundried and Ground kelp
A bit of Celtic Sea Salt
A cup of good organic raisins (optional but OOO you will miss the flavor later)
Raw Pumpkin seeds (will make it all the more "Chewier" but go easy don't over do this one)

I add in One med/lg Sweet Vadalia onion chopped corse (nice chunks) that I have left to air dry to let them mellow and breath. I have added more cuz ME? Love the sweet onions


Ok now is the time to MARRY the Curry

Throw it on and mix at all together.. WHAT FUN!
Smell that? Ohh heaven..

I will tell you that if you eat it right away it will be good, next day? EVEN BETTER! Let them have their "Honeymoon night" together and you will be glad you waited hehe

You also can eat this all alone but it is better next to other things. I put mine on a bed of Raw Corse chopped portabella Mushrooms (again rice sided pieces)

NOW that is endulging in something that can cure the strongest CRAVINGS and you can really chew it and get pure satisfaction out of it

And PLEASE remember Don't grate the potatoes!! I tried it that way and it was AWEFUL!! GRIND THEM! My food processor is totally fine for this.

Seems like a ton of work but TOTALLY worth it

ENJOY!

[blacktulip]

i slice them into thin rounds and eat as is- the most delicious crunchy and sweet chip or cracker/snack, topped with anything or simply plain. mmmm.