Another recipe that we made here in the house during Thanksgiving, using local ingredients is Yams. In the States they use sweet potatoes for the yams. Here in the Philippines we use the camote (similar looks to the sweet potato in the USA). Growing up here in the Philippines, we cooked the camote in lots of ways. Like slicing the camote into round sort of thin slice, maybe like around quarter of an inch, fry it until tender then add sugar. Other ways is just by boiling it and it can be substitute as a rice, eat with fish kinilaw (similar to sashimi). Really good to have that dish eating in the beach. Other ways of cooking is by boiling and mashed it and add sugar and wrapped it with lumpia wrapper and fry. All the dishes that I mentioned were really good but the yams is really something else. Its so good.
The holiday table
Feel free to share here some of your sweet potato/camote recipe.
***** Homemade Yams (Sweet Potato) Recipe *****
Ingredients:
- 2 lbs camote
- 2+ cups brown sugar (Keep tasting until it comes to the sweetness you desire)
- 2 cups marshmallow
- pinch of salt
- 3/4 – 1 cup of butter (eyeball if needed more)
Yams at left, and other holiday food
Procedures:
- Peel and quartered the potatoes. Boiled water in a large pot and add a pinch of salt. Boil the camote for 20 minutes or so, or until the camote are no longer crunchy; when its cooked. Drain just a little of the water. Not all to avoid dryness. Mash it with the potato masher and add the butter and the sugar. Keep tasting and add more sugar and butter if needed. Put like 1/2 cup of the marshmallow and mix to the mixture.
- Butter the bottom of the 8 x 8 Pyrex oven dish. Pour the camote mixture to the dish. And put the rest of the marshmallow on top of the mixture.
- Bake at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until brown. Really keep an eye for not to get burn.
***** Wondering if marshmallow is readily available here in the Philippines? Definitely yes. Almost all the malls carry it. If one mall is out, usually the other mall has it. Here in Davao one place that you will always see marshmallow is at Baker’s Basket, along Mabini Street, Davao City. Not far from Central Bank. Just near MacArthur Highway. S & R carries them too. *****
We do cook yams not just during Thanksgiving. Sometimes on some other occasions too. We are addicted to yams I guess. Ha ha ha.
Have fun eating you guys. Happy Holidays!!!