Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Cook's Guide entry for Sweet Potato along with all the recipes employing Sweet Potato presented on this site, with 215 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Sweet Potato recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Sweet Potato as a major wild food ingredient.

Sweet Potato (commonly called a yam in parts of the US) are the starchy tuberous roots of Ipomoea batatas a member of the Convolvulaceae (bindweed) family. The plant itself is a herbaceous perennial vine that's commercially grown as a foodstuff. The plant originates in the tropical zones of the Americas though the largest producer these days is China. The plant's edible tuberous root is long and tapered, with a smooth skin whose colour ranges between red, purple, brown and white. Its flesh ranges between white, yellow, orange, and purple.

Sweet potatoes can be cooked in a variety of ways and many of these are similar to the preparation techniques for true potatoes: boiling, mashing, roasting or as an addition to soups and stocks. When cooked a sweet potato has a slightly sweet creamy flesh that's lighter and fluffier than that of a potato. They also make a wonderful addition to curries because of the sweet notes in the flesh.