Candy potatoes pack an enormous dietary wallop, to not point out they’re a scrumptious addition to any meal. And do you know that in 2021 Gov. Kay Ivey proclaimed the candy potato Alabama’s official state vegetable? Due to the onerous work of some homeschooled college students in North Alabama, the Legislature acknowledged the tasty tuber with the glory.
Candy potato crops herald about $9 million to the state yearly, based on the Alabama Farmers Federation. Alabama Residing readers are huge followers, as they despatched in additional recipes for candy potatoes than some other matter this 12 months. Attempt all of them, and don’t really feel a bit responsible, as a result of a serving to of candy potatoes with the pores and skin on offers you the next advantages:
- Vitamin A within the type of beta carotene. A complete medium candy potato comprises 1,400 mcg of vitamin A in its pores and skin. That’s greater than 150% of your advisable each day quantity in a single serving, which performs a task in imaginative and prescient, bone growth and immune perform.
- Fiber provides the emotions of gratification, or feeling full, and aids in digestion. Fiber lowers excessive levels of cholesterol, reduces the danger of coronary heart illness, helps management blood sugar ranges and helps in sustaining a wholesome weight. A medium candy potato (105 energy) baked in its pores and skin has 4 grams of dietary fiber, equal to or larger than the fiber in some prompt oatmeal.
- Potassium. Consuming habits together with meals which might be a great supply of potassium, and which might be low in sodium, could scale back the danger of hypertension and stroke. Potassium is a mineral essential for all times. It’s mandatory for the center, kidneys and different organs to work accurately.
Researchers have additionally decided that candy potatoes include anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic and anti-cancer properties.
(Supply: Marilyn Agee-Carroll, Human Diet, Weight loss program & Well being regional Extension agent, Alabama Cooperative Extension System)
Candy Potato Pound Cake
Rebecca Fast has been baking since she was within the fifth or sixth grade, so creating her Candy Potato Pound Cake recipe got here naturally. “My mom all the time baked a pound cake and we’re all candy potato individuals,” she says, so she made it her purpose to create the perfect of each worlds. She regarded up a number of recipes, together with one by Paula Deen, and took her personal mom’s recipe and added spices used for fruit cake and a bit extra cinnamon for style. “It took me a few instances to get the correct quantity of potatoes,” she says, “and generally I exploit much less potatoes. You need a actually good candy potato that’s not stringy and mashes good.” And she or he doesn’t use canned potatoes, as recent is all the time greatest. She made the cake for her daughter for Thanksgiving and it was a “huge hit.”
Substances
- 1 cup butter
- 1½ cups granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 3 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg, as much as one other ¼ teaspoon to style
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon, or to style
- 2½ cups mashed candy potatoes
- 4 eggs
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup pecans, chopped.
Directions
Prepare dinner potatoes, mash and put aside. Cream butter and sugars. Sift dry elements in bowl. To butter and sugar combination, add eggs one after the other. Combine in candy potatoes, then dry elements and vanilla. Pour into greased and floured Bundt pan and sprinkle with pecans. Bake at 350 levels for 55-60 minutes. Examine at 55 minutes to ensure it’s not too brown.
Rebecca Fast
Candy Potato Soufflé
Substances
For the soufflé:
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, plus ½ tablespoon for soufflé dishes
- Sugar, for soufflé dish
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- ½ cup entire milk
- 1 cup mashed candy potatoes
- 3 massive eggs, separated and at room temperature
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1/8 cup rum
- ¼ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- Pinch of salt
- Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting.
For the rum sauce:
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- ½ cup sugar
- ¾ cup milk
- ¼ cup rum.
Directions
For the soufflé:
Rub 1 massive candy potato with cooking oil. Place it on a baking sheet and bake at 400 levels for 1 hour. Let cool after which take away the flesh and mash with a fork. After eradicating the candy potato from the oven, scale back the oven temperature to 375 levels. Put together 4 6-ounce ramekins by buttering all sides after which dusting every with sugar, tapping out the surplus. In a medium saucepan, soften 1 tablespoon butter over medium warmth. Add flour and prepare dinner whereas whisking till golden, about 2 minutes. Progressively add milk, whisking consistently, till thickened, about 1 minute. Take away from the warmth. Stir within the mashed candy potatoes and egg yolks, adopted by the rum, maple syrup and pumpkin pie spice. Put aside. Place the egg whites within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment; whip egg whites on excessive velocity with a pinch of salt till it simply reaches stiff peaks. Whisk ¼ of the whipped egg whites into the candy potato combination, then gently fold within the remaining whites utilizing a rubber spatula. Pour combination into the ready ramekin dishes, filling practically to the highest and smoothing the floor. Place crammed ramekins right into a 9-by-12-inch baking dish. Cowl the underside of the baking dish with water. Bake 35 minutes within the preheated oven. Rigorously take away soufflés from the oven, set every soufflé on a plate and dirt with confectioners’ sugar.
Rum sauce:
Soften butter in a small saucepan over medium warmth. Combine collectively the sugar and cornstarch and stir into the butter. Pour in milk and prepare dinner, stirring incessantly till the combination begins to boil. Proceed cooking till thick, stirring consistently. Take away from warmth and stir in rum. Serve heat.
Prepare dinner’s word: For the perfect and most dramatic impact, serve instantly; in any other case, like several good soufflé, they may start to deflate as they cool. These can also be served as a aspect dish with out the rum sauce.
Janet Parker
Candy Potato Cake
Substances
Cake:
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups mashed candy potatoes or yams
- 1¼ cups cooking oil
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup nuts, chopped
- ¾ cup coconut.
Frosting:
- ½ stick butter
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 field confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
- ½ cup + 1 tablespoon chopped nuts
- ½ cup +1 tablespoon coconut.
Directions
Beat eggs, sugar, candy potatoes or yams (whichever used) and cooking oil collectively till combined properly. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and baking soda collectively, then beat in with egg combination. Fold in chopped nuts and coconut and pour into greased and floured 13-by-9-by-2-inch pan. Bake at 350 levels for 45 minutes or till the center is agency to the contact. Enable the cake to chill till simply heat after which frost. Mix all frosting elements and unfold on cake whereas it’s nonetheless heat.
Rita Briscoe
Candy Potato Cobbler
Substances
- 2 cups candy potatoes, thinly sliced
- 4 cups water
- 1½ cups sugar, divided
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ¾ cup plain flour
- ½ cup milk
- Cinnamon, to style.
Directions
Carry candy potatoes and water to a boil, cooking till tender; drain potatoes. Add 1 cup sugar and butter; put aside. In a separate bowl, combine collectively oil, ½ cup sugar, flour and milk; pour into greased baking dish. Add scorching candy potatoes over batter. Sprinkle with cinnamon and bake at 350 levels for 20 minutes or till crust is golden brown. Crust will envelop candy potatoes as cobbler cooks.
Peggy Key
Candy Potato Dumplings
Substances
- 2 packages crescent rolls
- 1 bundle candy potato patties, reduce in half
- 2 cups water
- 1½ sticks margarine
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
- Cinnamon.
Directions
Roll every potato patty half in a crescent triangle. Place in a baking dish. Warmth water, sugar, margarine, cornstarch and vanilla. Pour over dumplings. Bake at 350 levels for 45 minutes or till crescent rolls are brown. Sprinkle with cinnamon when completed.
Kim Johns
Candy Potato Pancakes
Substances
- 2 cups blanched almond flour
- 2 cups tapioca flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 8 entire eggs
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup pureed candy potatoes
- Sugar-free syrup.
Directions
Combine each kinds of flour, baking soda, pie spice and sea salt collectively. Add eggs, candy potato puree, vanilla and honey in one other bowl. Pour the moist into the dry elements and stir in chocolate chips till batter is clean. Warmth frying pan with a bit olive oil and pour ¼ cup batter onto the pan, cooking till center is ready up and edges start to dry, then flip. High with sugar-free syrup. Yields as much as 10 servings.
Prepare dinner’s word: This can be a diabetic-friendly recipe.
Mary Avant
BBQ Pork-Stuffed Candy Potatoes
The candy potato might be the right meals, in my humble opinion. The place else are you able to get all that candy deliciousness in a aspect dish? I’m right here to inform you, although, it’s meant to be the star of the present. With this straightforward methodology, we present you easy methods to take your candy potatoes from the supporting forged to the primary character of your supper. That is additionally a extremely tasty manner to make use of up any leftover barbecue. If you wish to make it more healthy, head over to thebutteredhome.com for our recipe for a sugar-free barbecue rub, a simple strategy to make candy potatoes within the On the spot Pot and a scrumptious and wholesome pulled pork recipe utilizing pork tenderloin.
Substances
- 4 medium cooked candy potatoes
- 4 cups cooked pulled pork
- 1 cup sugar-free barbecue sauce
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1½ teaspoons pepper
- 1 cup bitter cream
- 1 cup shredded low-fat cheddar cheese
- Chopped inexperienced onions.
Directions
Minimize potatoes open and add a little bit of butter, salt and pepper. High with equal parts of pulled pork, cheese, bitter cream, onions and barbecue sauce.
Brooke Burks, The Buttered Dwelling
This story initially appeared in Alabama Living magazine.
