This recipe for sweet potato pasta is sure to both delight and nourish your family. It is also guaranteed to establish your reputation as a very creative and enterprising cook!Â
The biggest bonus is that this sweet potato noodles dish will fool even the most die-hard carb monsters in your home according to Ashley Tudor, author of the new book Sweet Potato Power from which this recipe was generously shared.
Homemade Sweet Potato Noodles
This recipe even won a national sweet potato recipe competition!
If sweet potato noodles get you excited for more recipes and information about this amazing vegetable that is a healthy alternative to grains when grains don’t seem to digest well for you or just when you want to mix it up in the carb department, check out Ashley’s website Sweet Potato Power.
I can’t wait to make sweet potato pasta for my own family. The only reason I haven’t yet is because I don’t own a mandoline slicer. There are not many recipes that I will actually buy a new kitchen gadget to make, but this recipe is worth the investment as I feel certain that I will be making it on a frequent basis for my family!
Thank you for sharing your creativity with all of us Ashley and congratulations on the publication of your sensational new book!
Sweet Potato Pasta Recipe
This sweet potato pasta recipe is sure to delight your family and has even won a national sweet potato recipe competition. Make these noodles with either sweet potato or yams.
Ingredients
- 1 yam or sweet potato medium size, long in shape
- 1 Tbl grassfed butter unsalted
- 6 sage leaves preferably organic
- sea salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
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Wash the yam well in filtered water and peel.
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Slice yam lengthwise as thinly as possible - a mandoline slicer (I like this one) is the best tool to use. Note that a potato peeler will not result in thin enough slices to achieve linguine like texture.
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Cut the long, thin yam slices into even strips about 1/4 inch wide. Set aside.
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In a large saute pan, melt butter on medium-low heat and add the sage leaves. Watch the butter closely as the sage begins to brown (you do not want the sage to burn).
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When the sage is crisp, remove and set aside. Add the sweet potato pasta strips to the butter and heat thoroughly. Stir and toss for about 2-3 minutes. When tender and warmed through, arrange on a serving platter and garnish with the fried sage.
Recipe Notes
If you want to make this dish, but don't have a mandoline slicer, try buying 100% sweet potato noodles. They are now available in many healthfood stores (such as this brand).
Be sure to read labels as many types of sweet potato noodles are blended with grain flour!
More Sweet Potato Recipes
If you enjoy sweet potatoes and yams, try these other dishes inspired by traditional wisdom.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
If anyone is interested in a sourdough course, Wardeh over at GNOWFGLINS has an excellent e-course.
I’m interested it, it is that the website or I should search for that name,thanks
What do you serve this with for a protein. Sounds good!
This sounds really good.
Yams and sweet potatoes are two different vegetables. I only have access to sweet potatoes. Does the original recipe say anything about whether it would work with both?
Thanks
It should work with both. They are quite similar.
Most people use sweet potato and yam interchangeably in cooking even though they are different veggies. Since the linguine is orange, Ashley the author really means a sweet potato and is just calling it a yam I think. The recipe in the book says a yam although the book is called Sweet Potato Power.
This recipe looks so yummy. I hope to try it soon as my husband loves pasta. I am new to nourishing traditions/traditional eating, although we have been eating mostly whole foods the past few years. I am excited to start trying more fermented foods and my friend heartily recommended the book Vintage Remedies Guide to Bread for sourdough, so I thought I would share the link in case anyone else is interested. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1938206010/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
That recipe does look tasty!!
Sarah, I’m putting my vote in too for the sourdough starter videos!!! 🙂
That does look really good ! I know i’m jumping off topic here but I need to know how to make sourdough starter? Can anyon help me ? Thank you so much .
Yes, this is on my list of videos to do!!! 🙂
I couldn’t find it Sarah. I thought sure it would be there ! I’ll look again . Thank you .
OHhhhhhh your list to DO! LOL Sorry I was so sure it was already there that i read it as it’s on my list of videos ………:)
I’ve got soooo many video ideas I want to share with you all. It’s just a matter of finding the time to get them all filmed. My wonderful son edits them for me (doesn’t he do an excellent job? I am so proud of him and really happy he likes to help out).
I am really looking forward to more videos and YES your son sure does an excellent job of editing ! Sooooo can we have the sourdough one next ? Just teasing…….:)
I started reading Dr Price’s book this morning and I can hardly get away from the computer now ! That is just so fascinating to me …to see what the ‘white man’s diet’ has done in the way of health. It’s so sad. I really didn’t know about all of this and how much we really are what we eat. I thank you Sarah because it’s because I started following your blog through a friend of mine that my way of eating has turned completley around! I will be forever grateful! 🙂
So glad you are reading Dr. Price’s book! The sourdough video won’t be for a bit yet. I have 4 more videos slated for the next few weeks that are ready to go … sorry for the delay 🙂
I wish I had known about Traditional Diets in my 20’s. My health in my 30’s and 40’s has been so much better than even my teenage years. Eating the correct way makes all the difference no doubt.
I’m on Chapter 16 right now . I just cannot stop reading it! What a wonderful wealth of information! I wish the whole world could read it. Especially my family. It makes me so sad to see my grandchildren eating the crap and drinking the soda….and my son’s who hurt and have Lyme …and headaches and such . But I can only tell them so much . Then they get all defensive on me. I want a cow so badly and they just make fun ….yet their kids just drink gallons of store bought milk . I spend a lot of money to find my raw milk. I just wish they could see ……..
I can’t wait for the next four videos , Sarah! And thank you again for all you do!
Just be patient .. they will come around in their own time and in their own way 🙂
Ohhh yes patience! The one thing I am short on and am having to learn so very much these last few years! I will just keep suggesting things to them and keeping a really good example myself and let the good Lord do the rest. But I do wish He’d send me a cow real soon! I can’t be without my cod liver oil or my butter oil….I’m on a very fixed income and I will give up a lot of other things before my healthy foods! I know what you mean about wishing you’d known in your 20’s what you know now….if only ….me too. I’d have surely raised my five kid’s a lot differently. But we were blessed with living on a farm and having our own meat and milk and veggies ….then I went to the white flour and sugars and cakes and doughnuts …..ugh. But we can’t go back…..we CAN go forward though! And a lot smarter !
Read Dr. Price’s Nutrition & Physical Degeneration online for free here: http://goo.gl/Jz3s6
Breadtopia.com has a great one. They have a ton of wonderful bread making videos.
Hope this helps!
Saeriu
I’m assuming you would eat this sparingly, as it is a moderate-high oxalate food, per your earlier post, no?
Well, if you were going to eat it everyday, that would be problem. Nothing like a green smoothie though which would be at a degree of oxalate ingestion much much higher than a simple plate of sweet potatoes!
Kind of like folks on GAPS who go wild with the almond flour and eat almond flour everything all the time. Same issue, same problem.
Just because a food is wholesome and good for you is no excuse to overindulge.
Two options for avoiding oxalate poisoning: add Oxalobacter formigenes to your gut flora, or consume calcium (supplement, milk, cheese, etc) with the oxalate containing foods.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalate
I know this is an old post but do you know where one could find a probiotic contain oxalobacter formigenes. I suffer from frequent kidney stones, and think this would help significantly. I am unable to find a product that contains this. I would deeply appreciate your help if you know of anywhere to get this. Thank you,
Michael
oh that looks SO goood!….i’m a sucker for sweet potatoes! yum! thanks for sharing!
That looks amazing. I have a mandolin slicer at home and don’t use it much. I’m going to be trying this recipe.