It was a hot day and I knew, I was going to be in the kitchen for several hours, preparing for the Sabbath. It meant making fish, chicken, side dishes and salads. Dessert was going to be cold or from the freezer. I did not plan on baking. I got around using the oven except for one item. Cholent is made in a crock pot. The chicken was cooked on the barbecue. Most foods were made in the microwave or did not cooking. I did pull out the frying pan and a sauce pan for short periods of time. The bottom line was that I did not heat up the kitchen very much.
I was stymied with what to do with a sweet potato. Of course, the beauty of the sweet potato, is you can bake it, put on a pat of butter and enjoy it. Simple and delicious is the way to go. Of course, it can be candied but I find, it is usually sweet enough by itself. I do love mashed sweet potato and started off on that path.
It was over 90 degrees in the sun and my kitchen didn’t feel much cooler and I didn’t want to use my oven. I microwaved the sweet potatoes whole, for 8 minutes. I would have baked them after I finished shaping them but again, it was not worth using the oven so I fried them in a smidge of margarine. What is a smidge? Just a little bit…..
Apricot Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
4 sweet potatoes
1 pat or margarine
1 tablespoon honey
8 dried apricots
1 tablespoon olive oil
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Microwave whole sweet potatoes for about 8 minutes until completely cooked. Since each microwave is different, the timing may be different. Stick a fork in the potato at about 5 minutes and see how it is. I would check it every minute, after that, until the fork goes in easily.
Peel the sweet potatoes and mash them with the margarine and honey. Mash well.
Make a two-inch ball out of some of the sweet potato and while you are rolling it, push a dried apricot inside. Place in a frying pan with hot olive oil. Do the same with the remaining sweet potato. Brown lightly on each side. If you are not dealing with hot weather, I suggest baking this in the oven.
Serve plain or with a little maple syrup. I was thinking of adding chopped scallions and I will try that, next time, I make these.
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The softer, orange-fleshed variety of sweet potato, commonly referred to as a yam in the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
