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How to Use Sweet Potato in Healthy Recipes Sweet potato (a.k.a. camote) has long been a go-to ingredient for healthy recipes, for good reason: It’s incredibly versatile, filling, and tastes amazing. But if you constantly have sweet potato on rotation in your meal plan… things can get boring. But that doesn’t mean it always has to…

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Food & Drinks, Recipes

These little sweet potato and corn fritters are the perfect snacks to serve as a canapé or entrée, and are also great with poached eggs and smoked salmon for brunch. They are seasoned with red onion, herbs and spices, and each bite is packed with flavour, and taste juicier when accompanied with the mint yogurt…

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Curry puffs were one of my many favourite childhood snacks to eat when I was growing up. Traditionally, curry puffs are deep fried with beef mince and potatoes, but this curry puff recipe today is a slightly healthier version made with sweet potatoes, a few other vegetables, and baked rather than fried. I have made…

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Food & Drinks, Travel, Where to eat

I recently went on a Sweet Potato Hunt in tokyo. In Japan, come winter time, you will see different types of Satsumaimo (sweet potato) flavoured snacks. For about 3 centuries, ishi yaki imo (roasted sweet potatoes on stones) were sold street side from vendors and then eventually trucks. This tuber has been popular in japan,…

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Food & Drinks, Recipes

This eggplant and sweet potato in tomato-spiced curry are inspired by the Indian eggplant curry, which I absolutely adore. The creaminess of the eggplant and the sweetness coming from the sweet potatoes simmered in the sweet-and-sour spicy curry sauce will definitely bring your taste buds on a wild adventure. This curry is best served with…

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