Sweet potato dessert

Sweet potato dessert

This recipe was originally published under 'Sweet potato'. This post contained 3 recipes. Now I am adding nutrition data to all my recipes in this blog. It became messy to have three nutrition table in  one post. So, I am publishing this as a separate recipe.

                                Recipe summary
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                              Sweet potato dessert

Preparation time:  15 minutes

Cooking time : 20 minutes

Serves: 4

1. In a large saucepan or stockpot bring 1 litre of  water to the boil.

2. Add 1 Japanese sweet potato peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch thick pieces, 1  Orange sweet potato peeled and cut into 1/2 inch cubes  and 1 potato slices and 2 pandan leaves knot and simmer covered for 15 minutes.

Sweet potato dessert

3. Remove and discard the pandan leaves and add 1 tablespoon grated natural raw brown sugar (This can be from palm or sugar cane). This will add some colour to the dessert; otherwise it will look watery. This is optional as the sweetness from the potato alone is sufficient.sugar. 1/8 teaspoon of cinnamon powder and 2 dates
(optional) and continue simmering for another five more minutes.

4. Take off the heat and serve hot or let it cool and refrigerate and serve chilled. 

                         

                        Sweet potato dessert is ready.

                      Recipe follows in detail with pictures.

Preparation time:  15 minutes

Cooking time : 20 minutes

Serves: 4

This is a very light and healthy dessert. If you are diabetic or you don’t like too sweet a dessert you can leave out the brown sugar and dates. The natural sweetness in the sweet potato is enough to give the sweetness required. The cinnamon powder will add a wonderful aroma to the dessert.I used minimum ingredients to keep it simple and easy to prepare. 
I made this desert with two varieties of sweet potatoes - the Japanese white variety and orange variety. It does not matter which you use. It will taste the same. 

Japanese sweet potato

orange sweet potato

Ingredients:

1 Japanese sweet potato peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch thick pieces

Japanese sweet potato sliced

1 Orange sweet potato peeled and cut into 1/2 inch cubes

orange sweet potato cubed

1 potato cut into pieces.
2 pandan leaves made into a knot

1 tablespoon grated natural raw brown sugar (This can be from palm or sugar cane). This will add some colour to the dessert; otherwise it will look watery. This is optional as the sweetness from the potato alone is sufficient.

Raw natural palm sugar

1/8 teaspoon of cinnamon powder
2 dates

1 litre of water

Sweet potato boiling in a pan

Method:

1. In a large saucepan or stockpot bring the water to the boil.

2. Add sweet potato and potato slices and pandan leaves and simmer covered for 15 minutes.

3. Remove and discard the pandan leaves and add sugar, cinnamon powder and dates and continue simmering for another five more minutes.

4. Take off the heat and serve hot or let it cool and refrigerate and serve chilled.

Serves: 4

  Nutrition data for this recipe
Nutrition content is computed by adding nutrition values of individual ingredients according to the USDA nutrition database. Water shown here is what is found in the ingredients and not the water added while cooking. This is only an approximation. For further information please read my post “Nutrition information for my recipes.”
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