SWEET POTATOES, ON THE AFRICAN MENU

Sweet potatoes are easy to find in almost every country, but what I discovered about these easy to find sweet potatoes, is that they are grown through genetic modification process and that takes away the original natural taste of the sweet potato.  Every year during planting season, my family and I used to plant sweet potatoes the natural way and dig them up during the harvesting season. That was so much fun for me as child . I remember digging looking for the biggest potato, talk about being greedy.

We would dig them up and wash them and my mom would cook them and we would have them for breakfast with a nice cup of tea. Even later during the day or evening as a snack with a cup of tea.

WHAT’S ON THE AFRICAN MENU TODAY?

Today on the AFRICAN menu I am serving hot sweet potato, the AFRICAN way.

INGREDIENTS

Sweet potatoes

3 spoons of sugar

1 spoon of salt

PREPARATION METHOD

Place the washed sweet potatoes into a good size pot.

Pour two cups full of water

Put sugar and salt on the sweet potatoes at the same time

                OR

Place the washed sweet potatoes into a food steamer and let them cook for 30 minutes with sprinkled sugar and salt on top

When done you can serve them hot or cold, with a nice cup tea or coffee.