Sweet Potato Tips

Contributed By: LR

• Long, slow cooking brings out the flavor in sweet potatoes. You can microwave sweet potatoes, but they'll taste best if you bake them for an hour or more at 350 degrees.
• For best results microwaving sweet potatoes, pierce and microwave on high power, changing their position and turning them over a few times. One potato takes four to six minutes to cook through.
• Bake several sweet potatoes at once, and keep leftovers for later. Cooked sweet potatoes can be refrigerated or frozen.
• Lemon juice, vinegar and other acidic foods slow your body's absorption of the sugars in sweet potatoes, which evens out the insulin response. Serve sweet potatoes with a squeeze of lemon juice or with a side of greens seasoned with vinegar.

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Created on ... December 18, 2006