Does Anyone Have A "Lo Carb" Sweet Potato Recipe?

[Cheryl N. WI]

I am having Thanksgiving dinner for 20 this year. I have read in the South Beach book that sweet potatoes are lower carb than regular potatoes and I actually like them better too, so I was thinking of making some for our dinner along with the regular mashed potatoes. I have never made sweet potatoes before so I don't have any kind of recipe for them. Can any body help me out?

Cheryl

 

[dizneegirl]

From Dana Carpenter's email newsletter:

* Sweet potatoes are another traditional Thanksgiving carb food. It's nice to know that sweet potatoes, while high carb, have a lower blood sugar impact than "regular" potatoes, and contain far more vitamins. Still, we are talking roughly 30 grams of carbohydrate per sweet potato - and that's without the brown sugar, corn syrup, and/or marshmallows people tend to heap on them! What can we do?

Here's a neat trick: Combine one sweet potato, cooked and mashed, with canned, pureed pumpkin. Now, add Splenda to taste, with maybe 1/2 teaspoon of blackstrap molasses for a brown sugar flavor (you could use Brown Sugar Twin instead; I don't like the stuff,) and a little cinnamon and nutmeg. Put it in a casserole, dot it with butter, and bake it till it's hot clear through. Using one average sweet potato and a pound of pumpkin puree, and assuming you serve 6 people, each serving will have about 10 grams of carbohydrate, with 1 gram of fiber, or 9 grams of usable carb - just a third of eating a plain sweet potato.

 

[Cheryl N. WI]

Thanks dizneegirl, maybe I'll just skip making the sweet potatoes this year. Not too many of the guests we are having would eat them anyway and I really don't want them leftover for me to eat. I think I'd rather save the carbs for something else! Thanks again for the info!

Cheryl

 

[nativetxn]

Cheryl, I love to just eat my sweet potato baked with lots of butter, yummy. I didn't know they were lower carb than white potatoes. I may have to have a bite of one for Christmas

 

[Cheryl N. WI]

Kath, in the South Beach book he states that the worst way to eat a potato is baked because of the glcemic index and that the baked potato would actually be less fattening if you put sour cream or low-fat cheese on it. Then he goes on to talk about how the type of potato you eat have different glycemic indexes with red skinned potatoes being highest in carbs, white skinned better and new potatoes even better and then goes on to say "try sweet potatoes instead of white". The glycemic index of of potatos range from 83-117 and the glycemic index of a sweet potato is listed as 63.

 

[KarenNY]

Sweet potato is going to be my carb treat for Thanksgiving. I love them. Usually I just bake it (don't eat the skin), sometimes adding just a bit of butter. Yum!

 

[Lynn CC]

I plan on having a couple of Tablespoons of Sweet Potatoe (with lots of butter) and about a Tablespoon of stuffing on Thanksgiving. That will be my cheat or should I say treat!