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
I have a mandoline and just got sweet potatoes in my organic produce basket from the Produce Fairy. Can’t wait to try this! It looks awesome.
If your mandolin has a julienne attachment you can do all the slicing at once 🙂
I love this! I have been eating sweet potatoes like crazy lately. Literally like 2 a day for a couple weeks. Don’t know why I’ve been craving them; in fact, I don’t know the nutritional profile of them. Just lazy and haven’t looked it up yet. Absolutely love this recipe and will make it.
My husband likes the nasty store-bought boxed nutrient-stripped pasta (it’s one of the main things I can’t stop him from buying!). I bet if I make this, he will eat it though.
Question: why does it say sweet potato recipe, but the ingredients say “yam?” I thought they were two totally different things???
I have some yams we just bought from a local market – gonna make this week!
Thanks!
I’m gonna try this for sure. I’m wondering if I can get my apple slicer/peeler to work on a sweet potato for long strips.
I’ve tried using a mandolin before for sweet potatoes, and they are so dense that it didn’t slice well at all for me. The sweet potato kept getting stuck. Maybe I just have a cheap mandolin? It was the first time I used it so I know it wasn’t a dull blade (or it shouldn’t have been at least). Any ideas how to remedy?
Sweet potatoes are hard to slice with a mandolin. Smaller ones are sometimes a little less dense, but that doesn’t help with a recipe like this where you want your “linguine” long! You can steam them lightly or parboil them to soften them first. this probably wouldn’t hurt the recipe and might even help it, as I’m guess ing will take longer to cook the sweet potato strips than it sounds like from reading the recipe.
In the United States, there is no difference between sweet potatoes and yams. What are sold as yams are really just a type of sweet potato. True yams are from West Africa and Asia and very difficult to find in the U.S.
What’s the difference between yams and sweet potatoes? At my stores, yams are orange inside abs sweet potatoes are more whitish
It would be a nice side dish with a steak too I’m thinking.
How about some grassfed meatballs?
How about some grassfed meatballs?