The most humble potato that you can cook in an affordable budget
In the morning this post from @ecotrain appeared in my feed, and we are actually cooking a fish item today which is very affordable. So I asked, if a non-veg post would be acceptable to which the answer was yes, but with a condition - so long as the potato is the star ! I said, I will make a post, and @ecotrain was curious to see. But hey, after I looked through the photographs of the item cooked today, I nowhere felt the potato is signing. But I am a man of words - I must not disappoint.
So brainstorming began and I asked Mom what she can cook with potato - it must sign. And it should be pretty affordable as well. I must post as I promised. And here is what she came up with - at the age of 71, quite clever. I had brought some sweet potatoes for our Thursday cooking - when we use only vegan food - remember, in this month, Thursdays are very much holy. She was cooking in the chulah (wood fire) with the wood, As its very tasty when being cooked there, I started setting the fire today because I wanted some wood ash to give to my trees. She said, she will burn the sweet potatoes there - it will sign for sure and there cannot be more affordable item than this. No expenditure at all - the sweet potatoes are burnt with the remaining fire left out after cooking, so no investment.
She has the tool to get them out and check, if they are done or not and she also knows how much time it should be kept. She told me to check in the middle and I went, but I was not sure so I asked her back. Finally when I tasted it, it reminded me our childhood. Wow I must say - the charcoal smoky taste - barely you get it now in city.
Last year in my apartment, we tried to boil it and just to bring this smoky flavor, we tried to burn it in gas. It was not bad, but it was nowhere near this. Back then, we did not have a grill. May be with a grill, it will get better, but I am sure, it will not be the same as authentic like this. When we were child, I remember, we used to count, who will get how many - and sit waiting for it. Back then, these were the hot snack items, that was made at home few times.
And do you know the health benefits of this humble sweet potato ? Why its available only during winter ? Just do a google search, you will be surprised and will feel like why you did not know it earlier, if not eating it.
But hey, there is a caution, if you are really trying to grill this way - you should watch and learn when they are ready and take them out - else all you will get is some charcoals.....Hope I did not disappoint @ecotrain as promised.
Here is another version of potato that we also eat - no cooking needed, just take out the outer skin and eat raw. Not sure, if you ever tested it.
amazing! so happy to see this post, and what a dedicated effort you made to cook this dish! I haden't even thought of sweet potato, but you really made it work.. and yes, fire cooked potatoes taste the absolute best! thank you. for joining in!!
Thank you so much, it indeed reminded me old days - I told mom, I will bring more and whenever possible grill few for me till I am at my native.
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That is the best way to eat sweet potato! It is a favourite in our home too.
Have never tried to get that spoky flavor on potatoes, event more sweet potato, now i wonder how it taste like, maybe i shouldsearch for wood :D
its entirely different and you will love it - try out once. Even we burn plain potatoes (in slow heat) then add some garlic , green chili, a drop of oil and eat that. You can also add onion (sliced), mustard oil and green chili - that has a different flavor. Poor man's food now a dream for many.
Sounds delicious, i guess "poor" create low cost flavors out of need, and those flavords flood the world with variaty and quality. I currently eat a lot of banana, yuca, potato and carrots those plants are dirt cheap here on vnzla, you would get a kilogram of each for 1$ and in case of yuca, is like 5 kilograms 1$. If you consider the cost of living in here, those are incredible cheap.
And see who survived most from Corona - in fact, they were affected the least - no one even bothers to analyze why or even prepare some statistics.
They eated more actual food and less industrialy prepared goods. In venezuela the data is weird to look at, the goverment lies flatly about the infected and the dead, people, a lot of people have tell it on internet media, we have proof, i and my family never got counted by the goverment as "covid" patients, we were literally marked as flu, and sent home.
I remember a year back in 2016, hunger striked like never before, there was a really bad harvest and the whole country starved, i eater yuca twise or tree times per day for months, that was my only food, and the only protein avaible was chiken because it growed fast and was cheap to feed... In that year i maded so many diferent recipest with yuca that im still ablazed by it, ended up making up like 80 diferent dishes. Is insane how creative can a person become when they are hungry and tired of eating the same every time.
Necessity teaches us everything.
It does, is a hard master to learn from, but it teach us a lot. I just hope necessity teach humanity to do more bio-friendly tech and maybe save us from our own bad actions.
It is one of the best thing which is full of proteins and neutrient and the most important thing you will not have to apply any time of oil or other things to cook sweet potatos.... I remember tha we used to eat it by applying a little bit sugar on its surface 🤣🤣 @sanjeevm
that means, you have weakness for sweets - because they are already sweet, and you wanted more ?
That's a really interesting way to cook potatoes.
That's good advice. I've tried cooking things on an open fire or hot coals in the last and have burned them pretty bad.
ya, she asked me to check, and I was like helpless - I told, I cannot figure out.
After read your content, I remembered my grandmother prepared burn sweet potatoes when I was ten years. It was my first time taste burn sweet potatoes. It had nice taste and then I requested again to prepare this. I love to add wood to the stove. But I couldn't eat it over ten years. Thanks for bringing me to the childhood.
Ya, old memories...I have got an opportunity to refresh them.
A very traditional way of making the potatoes. Thanks for sharing this and reminding me of trying this myself next spring or summer.
Ya, now we realize, the traditional way was much better.
i heard also about grilled potatoes. But never i know same can do sweet potatoes.i like to try. wiil see. Can eat without anything?,mean spicy.
What the name of below potatoes?
sweet potato , that is the name.
I like to eat sweet potatoes by burning them in a clay oven. This is a common view of the village. This dish has been introduced in the village till now. The last few months ago my mother burned some sweet potatoes in a clay oven and later let me eat the burnt sweet potatoes. These are very tasty to eat.
Ya, clay oven will also give better taste than the electric grills.
This is the best way to enjoy all of the best taste and flavor of sweet potato 😍
Ya, and that flavor is unique - that charcoal smell - Recently I saw in some store, they are selling charcoal ovens because of popularity and its costlier than the regular ones, even though, its custom made and not as finished as an oven.
yes the charcoal oven is always giving a better taste more than the electric oven. In Vietnam, we usually bake the sweet potato in cold days, really can not get out that special flavor.
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Let's keep working and supporting each other to grow at Hive!...Hi @sanjeevm, it's great what we can achieve with a little ingenuity.