 Barked: Tue Jan 23, '07 7:54pm PST |
 | |  | | One of the Weekly Dish suggestions many months ago was that we do a food of the week to review the nutritional information of fruits and veggies as well as how to prepare them. We thought we'd start with sweet potato.
The nutritional information below is courtesy of the Louisiana Sweet Potato Commision (www.sweetpotato.org):
Nutrition information per serving of one medium sweet potato:
Calories 130
Calories from fat 0.39 g
Protein 2.15 g
Carbohydrate 31.56 g
Dietary Fiber 3.9 g
Sodium 16.9 mg
Potassium 265.2 mg
Calcium 28.6 mg
Folate 18.2 mcg
Vitamin C 29.51 mg
Vitamin A 26081.9 IU
Source: National Agricultural Library (NAL), part of the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture.
We won't list everything on the site, but sweet potatoes are a terrific tuber to add to your diet because they have enormous nutritional value, are a great source of fiber, and they taste good to boot.
If you haven't already grown to love sweet potatoes, perhaps this recipe for stew will help (this recipe is not perfectly balanced and is not intended for daily feeding without supplementation). It's easy to put in the slow cooker and freezes nicely, so there are no excuses for a winter evening without something good to eat.
Steamy Sweet Potato Stew
2 pounds meat, cubed (I like this with chicken, Conan takes beef, and Vaughn has tofu - ew)
3 cups sweet potatoes, cubed
1 medium zucchini, cubed
1 medium apple, cubed
2 garlic cloves, minced
dash ground allspice
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 cinnamon stick
3 cups stock (beef, veggie, whatever)
1 cup apple juice
8 dried apricots or prunes, cut in half
1/3 cup natural peanut butter
In a 4 to 5-quart crockpot, combine meat (or meat substitute) with sweet potatoes, zucchini, apple, garlic, allspice, ginger, cinnamon stick, stock, and apple juice. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours for meat and about 4 hours for meat substitute. Stir in apricots or prunes. Cover and cook on low about 20 minutes or until dried fruit is softened. Discard bay leaf and cinnamon stick. Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter (if you plan to freeze the soup and want to use the peanut butter, leave it out of the recipe and add about 1 tablespoon for big dogs or about 1 teaspoon for little dogs after reheating). This smells really good, so make sure to allow it to cool before you dive in.
This is also very tasty with yogurt mixed in just before serving. |  |  | |  |
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