We love sweet potatoes, as you know. We make lots of great dishes with them, including a delicious Filipino dish called Ube, but today we are going to share a new way to enjoy these ultra delicious potatoes. We like eating these before or after a long or high intensity workout. Along with Taro, Green Plantains, and Cassava we consider these excellent sources of low glycemic carbohydrates (or “safe starches”). Sweet Potatoes are also high in caratenoids, vitamin C, potassium, and fiber.
This dish boasts fresh ingredients, coconut oil and is jam packed with perfect carbs and glucose.
Here’s what you will need to make this complimentary dish to your favorite protein:
This side dish feeds 2 – 3 people
- 3 medium to small purple sweet potatoes, raw
- 1 full stalk of fresh curry leaves
- 2 medium sized stalks of fresh rosemary, blades only
- 1 large white onion, sliced
- fresh cracked black pepper to taste
- pink Himalayan sea salt to taste
- 1 tsp capers, drained
- 3 tbsp coconut oil
- 3/4 cup of cooking sherry (optional) if you don’t like sherry, use water, but the sherry really does add amazing flavor
Heat coconut oil in a large skillet, once really hot add fresh curry leaves, rosemary, capers and onion. The curry leaves will get nice and crispy…you want that. 🙂 Continue to cook on medium – high, depending on your skillet.
With a vegetable peeler peel sweet potatoes and then slice them with a mandolin. Once the onion slices are golden brown, add potato slices and toss until they get a little brown. Then add the sherry, salt and pepper, cover and reduce heat to medium. Cook for 20 – 30 minutes. Depending on your skillet and your stove, you may need to add a sprinkle of water or two within the cooking time. Make sure to check often to ensure that you are not burning them.
This is a great side dish and we hope that will enjoy it as much as we do.
As always, our best and live healthy. Jo and Henry
Nutty Kitchen 
Wow I’ve never seen purple sweet potatoes before, they actually look quite delicious. I haven’t seen those available in any of the stores in my city though.
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They are so good. We buy ours at an Asian market, as they are otherwise hard to find. Totally worth it – good luck finding some soon, Kris. Interesting blog, thank you for visiting. Jo and Henry
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I found purple sweet potatoes at Whole Foods. I think it will be worth my trip over there to get them again, as I thought they were tastier than regular sweet potatoes.
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