Sweet Potato Sliders

One of my favorite new foods is Sweet Potato, I love it its like dessert at dinner that's good for you. With just alittle salt it is fantastic, but today I wanted to try something different with it and after some thought I came up with the idea of making sweet potato sliders using the sweet potato in place of a bun and a slider size turkey burger with cheddar cheese. 

Don't They just look fantastic!! and I promise they taste just as good as they look. It is a great combination of salty and sweet. 

What You'll Need 

- 2 Sweet Potatoes

- About .5lbs of ground turkey 

- Cheddar Cheese block 

- Salt

- Pepper

- Olive Oil 

What To Do

- Peel the Sweet Potato and slice so that they are about 3/4 of an inch thick you should end up with about 10-12 slices

- Cut up slices of Tinfoil for each 

- place a Slice of Sweet potato on a rectangular piece of tinfoil

- Coat each side with olive oil salt and pepper to your own liking

- Fold up the tinfoil so that the potato is wrapped completely

- Place on the warmed up grill 

- Cook on the grill for about 20 minutes flipping half way between 

- While Sweet Potatoes are cooking roll ground turkey in to balls then flatten so that are sliders shaped

- Once the Potatoes have cooked for about 15 minutes put he burgers on the grill I put a piece of tinfoil on the grill and cook the burgers on that it helps keep them from falling apart and thought the grates of the grill

- When the turkey burgers are almost completely cooked slice the block of cheese thin and put one slice on each burger

- Take the burgers and sweet potatoes off

- Unwrap the sweet potatoes as you want to serve them so that they stay warm

- Place the burger between two slices of the sweet potato and enjoy! be careful biting in the sweet potatoes are really hotttt!!! 

My whole dinner this evening was two of these sliders green beans and a cucumber 

I Hope you Enjoyed and try out this recipe and let me know what you think in a comment below! 

Also let me know if you like these recipe posts or what other kinds of posts you would like to see!

Stephaniexx

Sweet Potato Fries Yum!

This week as spring is approacing and I am trying to get in better shape for summer I have decided to make some big changes to my diet, as someone who works out regularly my diet is where I struggle. I generally lived a college diet and go out with my friends and eat some pretty crummy food. So this week I have really been working on healthy eating. So on this track I decided to try to see if I could make myself some sweet potato fries. To my suprise they actually turned out pretty good!!

To start off my venture I first peeled my sweet potato so for anyone who has never done this before it is not as easy as peeling a potato let me just tell you that know. I'm sure it gets easier with practice but I deffinatly struggled so make sure you have a good knife to work with. 

Once the potato was peeled I decided to slice mine in half becuase it was pretty big and I didnt want crazy long fries as well as it being very difficult to cut. After this I cut it in to slices and strips of potato about a cm wide and a cm thick. I have always prefered shoe stringy like fries and while they all did not turn out that thin I tried, So if you prefer wedges or steak fries go for it this way just seemed the easiest for me to cut. So once I did this I put them all in a strainer and ran some water over them just to make sure they are washed and I have read that doing this will remove some of the starch from the potatos. Also after you do this make sure you dry them with a paper towel really well 

Once I dried the potatos I transfered them to a small bowl 

To the bowl I added olive oil about 3 tbsp, Some salt and pepper to your individual liking and alittle less than a hand full of bread crumbs. This process would be best if you had a plastic back to shake it all up in however I lacked that unfortunatly so if you are in the same boat as me just make sure that you coat all of the fries pretty evenly. 

Pre baking photo! So I put the oven on to 400 and baked them for 40 minutes. Now as you can see I made some regular potato fries for eddie since he is not a fan of sweet potatoes and they are on the left. And yes I made a ton! I am eating the left overs at the moment actually and they are just as delicious :) 

And the finished products! some delicious fries. 

I hope you all enjoy!! and let me know in a comment below if you decide to try them out. 

Later lovies