Cooking & Recipes. Is It Ok To Cook Sweet Potatoes With The Skins Still On?

Cooking Recipes : Is It Ok To Cook Sweet Potatoes With The Skins Still On

We are having them mashed tonight, is it ok to cook them cut up in pieces with the skins still on? ~~~ 5th Earl of Daveshire ~~~

Best Answer To Cooking Recipes Question

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

All Answer To Cooking Recipes Questions

Answer 1

Oh yes, yummy.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

No not realy mate ,,, they dont taste as good. I hope this helps...

Answer 5

YES PUT THEN IN HOLE YUMMMY

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

Yes, of course.

Answer 8

Yes, they are delicious! Treat them as you would any other potato.

Answer 9

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.

Answer 10

oh yea thats the best way

Answer 11

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

Answer 12

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

Answer 13

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

Answer 14

of course!Enjoy.

Answer 15

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!!

Answer 16

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

Answer 17

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. . .

Answer 18

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.

Answer 19

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

Answer 20

If youe going to cut them up before you cook them I would peel them first. The skins on a sweet potato arent like the ones on a white potato. I like the skins on a white potato, but not a sweet potato. Also heres 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 amp; fruits with different color skin and flesh that you lose vitamins from peeling like white potatoes and apples

Answer 21

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