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Archive for sweet potatoes

Recipe: Sweet Potatoes with Lime and Cilantro

December 8, 2010

Recipe: Sweet Potatoes with Lime and Cilantro

(This recipe appeared in the December, 2010 issue of A Healthy You).


This recipe is an eye-opener for those who find sweet potatoes cloyingly sweet or those who are tired of eating them smothered in marshmallows and brown sugar. Japanese sweet potatoes, with their pale flesh and delicate flavor, are a treat if you can find them. Yum, yum, yum!

Difficulty: Easy

Prep time: 10 minutes

Time: 30-40 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

•    4 sweet potatoes

•    1/2 bunch fresh cilantro

•    2-3 limes

•    butter or olive oil, salt (optional)

Directions

1.    Wash the sweet potatoes and bake them whole, in their skins, at 375 degrees until tender, about 40 minutes.
2.    Wash and chop cilantro leaves.
3.    When sweet potatoes are done, slit open the skin and place on serving plate.
4.    Season with salt and dots of butter or a sprinkle of oil, if you like, then squeeze fresh lime juice all over, and shower with cilantro leaves.

*Suggestion – Whenever possible, use organic potatoes, cilantro, lime, butter, extra virgin olive oil

 

Food Focus: Sweet Potatoes

December 8, 2010

Food Focus: Sweet Potatoes

(This article appeared in the December, 2010 issue of A Healthy You.)

Sweet potatoes are on everyone’s mind this season. They seem to go hand in hand with the holidays, and fortunately, eating these and other sweet vegetables needn’t be limited to this time of year.

If you don’t have any sweet potatoes in your kitchen, go out and buy some (organic and local if possible).

  • Sweet potatoes elevate blood sugar gently rather than with the jolt delivered by simple refined carbohydrates, so there’s no energy crash after you eat them.
  • They are much higher in nutrients than white potatoes & especially rich in Vitamin A.
  • Sweet potatoes offer a creamy consistency that is satisfying and soothing.
  • They are healing to the stomach, spleen, pancreas and reproductive organs and help to remove toxins from the body.
  • They can increase the quantity of milk in lactating women.
  • They can lessen cramps and premenstrual symptoms.
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