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Dehydrating Sweet Potatoes and How To Use Them

Monday, September 26th, 2011





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Dehydrating Sweet

Potatoes


I heard something pretty neat yesterday in an Adrian Rogers sermon. I sure miss him. His “Adrianisms” are just priceless. The quote yesterday concerned those who are married and he referred particularly to us women. He said that “the woman’s job is to love her husband. It is God’s job to make him good.” Of course, that goes ditto for the husbands regarding wives, but I pondered on that for a moment and had to look at where I try to take on God’s job with Mr. Fix-It. We women are really good at trying to “fix” our husbands into the men that “we know they should be.” Yikes.


Now don’t get me wrong…Mr. Fix-It is close to perfect – but I am the normal woman who can find that tiny loose thread in any sweater and unravel the whole thing trying to make it right. And so, the next time I decide that I need to tell Mr. Fix-It what he “needs to be doing” I think I’ll shut my trap. Perhaps my focus needs to be on what I need to be doing! He is awfully sweet and treats me like a queen.


And speaking of sweet, I’ve been dehydrating sweet potatoes! Yep. This is the time of year when those tubers start going on sale and with our new organic grocery stores, I am hoping to cash in on some really nice ones. The sweet potato is one thing I hadn’t tried dehydrating, but last week I decided it was something I should try. What a success!! And when I served them for dinner the other night, Mr. Fix-It smacked his lips and commented on how good they were. “There were dehydrated,” I crowed. “I figured as much,” he said as he chomped on another mouthful. He has gotten used to my dehydration experiments and is pretty impressed with the results.


It is just too neat to have jars of dehydrated sweet potatoes on hand to whip out and create a casserole or candied yams. I have always had such trouble with potatoes going bad in the bin and so this is a welcome discovery! So grab your taters and start slicing and here’s how to dry them and how to use them afterwards!


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Wash and peel sweet potatoes


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Slice the potatoes in slices about 1/8″ thick


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Drop the slices into boiling water and boil for 2 minutes. Drain and drop into iced water with ice cubes and leave in the water until ice cubes melt. Drain the water.


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Place blanched slices onto dehydrator racks without overlapping and dehydrate for at least 15 hours. You want them nice and dried.


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Store potatoes in mason jars or ziploc freezer bags. You can vacuum seal the jars but it is not required.


Candied Sweet Potatoes from Dehydrated Potatoes



1 cup of dehydrated slices per potato needed. Plan approximately 1/2 potato per person.
Per 1 or 2 potatoes:
1/3 cup butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
pinch of salt
chopped pecans
miniature marshmallows


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Soak potatoes overnight in the refrigerator, covered in water in a bowl. The potatoes will soak up much of the water.


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Pour contents of the bowl, water included, into boiling water and boil until slices are tender. Drain.


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Layer the sweet potato slices in a casserole dish. I just used the equivalent of one potato in a small casserole for me and Mr. Fix-It. I miss making those big dinners when all the kids were home!!


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Melt butter and brown sugar and salt together in a pan on medium heat


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The mixture will make a smooth sauce


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Pour the brown sugar sauce over the potatoes.


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Sprinkle chopped pecans over the surface. Bake in a 350º oven for 30 minutes.


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After 20 minutes of baking, sprinkle marshmallows over the top of the casserole and allow to brown for the last 10 minutes of baking.


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Now THAT is some Southern yumminess!!



Happy Yamming!



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