Is it ok to cook sweet potatoes with the skins still on?!


Question: We are having them mashed tonight, is it ok to cook them cut up in pieces with the skins still on?


Answers: We are having them mashed tonight, is it ok to cook them cut up in pieces with the skins still on?

Scrub the skins first, but yes. My mother liked to eat the skins. My hubby likes them peeled. Whatever you like.

Oh yes, yummy.

sure! Esp. if you have a food mill or potato ricer, they wil keep the skins out of the mashed potatoes!

Absolutely! I never peel any potatoes - just under the skin is where all the goodness is!

No not realy mate ,,, they don't taste as good.

I hope this helps...

YES PUT THEN IN HOLE YUMMMY

Oh yes!

I used to cook them like a baked potato and scoop out the innards and give them to my daughter as a lovely puree!

Yummy.

Yes, of course.

Yes, they are delicious!

Treat them as you would any other potato.

sure, just as you can with the other kinds of potatoes. they say the skin has the vitamins and minerals.

i make my mashed potatoes with 1 white and 1 sweet potato for every 2 people. no need to add anything (other than a little splash of milk maybe) but i do add some butter (not margarine) and a little brown sugar as well.

oh yea thats the best way

It's fine if you like the taste of them. Just be sure to wash and scrub then really well before cooking.

Sure, taste great. Most of the vitamins are in the skins.

of course!Enjoy.

It is most certainly ok to cook sweet potatoes with the skins on. Better for you if you eat the skins too!

Hawkeye

G O C H A R G E R S!!

Yes bake them with the skins on just like a regualar potato and then peal and mash.

You can actually boil them whole and when they are done, just drain and pull the skin off. Works great. Mash them up and they are delicious. I sometimes bake them also and I wash them good and wrap them in tin foil and bake them until done. . .

Yes - just make sure to prick them with a fork so that steam can escape. Otherwise, you may end up with little yam bombs and a lot of yammy goo all over the inside of your oven.

Sure, it actually makes it easier to peel...

If you'e going to cut them up before you cook them I would peel them first. The skins on a sweet potato aren't like the ones on a white potato. I like the skins on a white potato, but not a sweet potato. Also here's another fun food fact: you lose hardly any vitamins from peeling fruits and veggies whose skin is the same color as the flesh, such as sweet potatoes and carrots. Its veggies & fruits with different color skin and flesh that you lose vitamins from peeling like white potatoes and apples

I always cook them that way. You peel them after they're cooked. Raw sweet potatoes are so difficult to peel.





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