Winter is a great time to enjoy root vegetables. Covered with soil like their blankets, these root vegetables flourish underneath. One of my favorite root vegetables is sweet potatoes. In fact, it is one of the foods that I make sure my kids “learn” to enjoy when they were babies. Despite their not-so-interesting appearance, these tasty tubers are truly nutrition superstars. A single sweet potato contains more than 1 day’s worth of beta-carotene ( or Vitamin A) and nearly all your daily vitamin C requirements. They also help combat free radicals, benefit the skin, and support the immune system. Because they are packed with nutrition, I consider them as one of my “corona” foods! By the way, sweet potatoes are also good gut foods, with soluble and insoluble fiber that promotes gut motility. If you don’t believe me, eat one sweet potato every day for a week, you will be hitting the bathroom daily!
How to Enjoy Them:
You can bake them as you would with potatoes. The way I bake sweet potatoes in the oven is by slicing them into halves and then brush a little bit of olive oil on the surface so that it gets a little bit crispy. You can also sprinkle some cinnamon or salt or butter If you want. However, if you were to ask me my FAVORITE way to cook these tubers, it would be roasting them in the coals of a hot fire!!!! Frankly, it does not require any techniques or spices. The hardest part is starting the fire…….
