Sweet Potatoes for Thanksgiving: Try Something New

You don’t recommend sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, right? Many American families all over the United States, but especially in the South, have a sweet potato side on the holiday table, often with tons of brown sugar, nuts and marshmallows. But there are lots of other ways to serve sweet potatoes and only some of them are casseroles. If you are tired of the same old sweet potatoes that are traditionally served, branch out and try something different.

Consider the following possibilities for a new type of sweet potato side:

Chipotle and sweet potato
Apples and sweet potato
Chanterelle mushrooms, fontina cheese and sweet potato
Sweet Potato Noodle Kugel
Roasted beets and sweet potatoes
Quinoa with sweet potato ad mushrooms
Sweet potato latkes
Oyster, sausage, and sweet potato dressing
Baked sweet potato falafel
Caribbean couscous

Perhaps you want to include a soup like:

Sweet potato and ginger
Curried carrots and sweet potato
Carrot, apple, red lentil and sweet potato
Spicy sweet potato and coconut
Peanuts and sweet potato
Roasted sweet potato and corn chowder
Black bean,sauage,and sweet potato
Ham and sweet potato

Or a salad…

Spinach and roast sweet potato with balsamic dressing
Green beans, boiled sweet potato with magno chutny and cilantro
Caribbean sweet potato salad
Rocket and sweet potato
Black bean and sweet potato

If none of these work for you how about including sweet potatoes as a dessert?

Sweet potato pie
Sweet potato pound cake
Sweet potato cheesecake
Sweet potato cookies or brownies

You can start out the dinner with:

Sweet potato hummus
Sweet potato chips

Or start out the whole day with:

Sweet potato pancakes
Sweet potato waffles
Sweet potato breakfast casserole
Sweet potato banana smoothie

All of the recipes listed above can be found online with a quick Google search.