Purple Sweet Potatoes are beautiful in color, delicious in taste, and perfect in nutrition.
My childhood memory brings me to the embers of the wood used for the traditional grilling of tubers. In the past, when I was still in school, at elementary school around the age of eight, I used to eat food as a source of carbohydrates by grilling it using wood coals.
The simple things about serving food when I was little, made me more creative in serving food, while still, maintaining the authentic taste of the ingredients.
Tonight I want to prepare a meal that I have been longing for. Derived from Purple Sweet Potato ingredients. Incidentally, a few days ago, I bought Purple Sweet Potatoes at the market for me to stock up on food in the pantry.
Have you ever seen Purple Sweet Potatoes or even eaten them? Or maybe the orange Sweet Potatoes that are easier to find in your area?
Actually, it's also easier to find Orange Sweet Potatoes in my area than the purple ones. For the price, Purple Sweet Potatoes are also more expensive than the orange or white sweet potatoes.
I purposely bought Purple Sweet Potatoes in small sizes to make the serving method easier. The important thing to consider when buying Sweet Potatoes is that you should already have a plan for the method of serving the sweet potatoes. Different cooking methods and different sizes of sweet potatoes are recommended.
For desserts such as those served with brown sugar or coconut milk sauce, we can choose a large size of sweet potatoes because we will cut them into small but even sizes.
For serving as fries or served just boiled, it's best to choose sweet potatoes like the ones I chose. Small in size, but long. So it's easier to form into sticks or enjoy directly without cutting it first.
Purple Sweet Potatoes from My Childhood Memory
In the past, I used to pick up small Purple Sweet Potatoes in other people's fields after harvesting. Usually, farmers leave a small size of Purple Sweet Potatoes on the ground and let someone else pick them up for free.
The farmers only sell large sizes of Sweet Potatoes. So it is very beneficial for the community around these agricultural fields. I and other small children in the past together took Sweet Potatoes from the ground with only our hands, because the sweet potato tree had been uprooted. So the process no longer needs to be complicated. We can only rely on our hands to pick up the remnants of the Sweet Potatoes left by the farm owners.
In the past, the result I took for free from the farm fields was Purple Sweet Potatoes which was enough to eat with the rest of my family.
Roasted Purple Sweet Potatoes With Original Flavor
In the past, my late father taught me to cook Sweet Potatoes by grilling over coals produced from wood for cooking. The result of cooking with coals from wood is that it often looks charred on the outside. We have to remove the burnt part of the sweet potato skin with a knife. Then we take part in the sweet potatoes that have been cooked, to be enjoyed. Usually, I enjoy grilled sweet potatoes right away in front of the fire, while keeping the side dishes or when I'm cooking rice in the past. :)
It is one of many beautiful memories that I want to keep repeating, enjoying grilled food the traditional way as my late father did with us.
NOW
Now my family no longer uses the fire stove for cooking. We also have an oven for roasting, baking, or grilling.
So this time I will use the oven to make Roasted Purple Sweet Potatoes. With original flavor, without added cream, cheese, or other toppings.
In this recipe, I only use olive oil and salt during the roasting process to bond and maintain the natural sweetness of the sweet potatoes.
Using an oven for roasting also really helps keep food clean and minimizes the wasting of sweet potatoes that could otherwise be eaten more. In fact, we don't even need to peel the sweet potatoes. Save time and energy, of course. :)
I hope you guys enjoy my simple recipe this time, only Roasted Sweet Potatoes but I'm sure it will be quite filling and the taste will not disappoint. At the dinner table, Purple Sweet Potatoes will boost the mood, to enhance the cheerful mood of its beautiful color.
COOKING INSTRUCTIONS
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Put the sweet potatoes on the baking tray, then roast the sweet potatoes for 60 minutes. Halfway through cooking, don't forget to flip the sides of the sweet potatoes so they cook evenly.
SERVED!
Serve Roasted Purple Sweet Potatoes while warm. In original flavors like mine, you don't need to add other ingredients and it's already quite rich in taste and nutrition.
I really like the original version. Although in some versions, many people add butter, or cheese as a filling or topping before the sweet potatoes are removed from the oven.
Sweet, savory, and with a soft texture. Very suitable to be enjoyed at night, while having a pleasant chat. It will be even more perfect if you make a small tent in your yard, then enjoy the night sky, although sometimes without stars, but enough with the light from the hearts of the people we love.
I hope you guys like my recipe this time! Have a great day!
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Anggrek Lestari
Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.
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