Sweet Potato Treat

Caramelised Sweet Potatoes

While doing my weekly shopping last week, I saw a heap of sweet potaoes at the super market.  My mind went back to my childhood, when we had a patch of sweet potatoes in our garden and watching our gardener digging up the soil to retrieve them.  We loved food and my Mum used to make it in many ways.  I was really surprised to see a somewhat similar dessert here in Malaysia at one of the dinners we attended.  At the end of the day people all over the world eat the same thing, use local ingredients and call it by different names.

The Recipe:

1 large sweet potato; 2 tbsp jaggery or brown sugar; 2 dsp grated coconut; 2 tbsp water.

Wash and cut the sweet potato into 3 pieces;  Boil in enough water to cover it for 15 minutes.  Drain and completely cool.  Peel and cut into wedges.  Place the sugar or jaggery  and the water in a non stick pan and heat till on medium flame till it bubbles.  Lower the flame and add in the sweet potato wedges.  Gently stir so that all the pieces are covered with the caramel.  Transfer to serving plate and sprinkle the coconut over it.  Your Sweet Potato Treat is now ready and is enough to serve four people.