# How to prepare a sweet potato

## The essentials

The sweet potato is prepared like a potato, but it cooks faster and it is naturally sweet. In the oven as fries or wedges, as mash, or in dice in a soup.

## Choosing it

Firm, with no soft spots or cuts. The small and medium ones cook more evenly.

## Preparing it

Scrub it under water. Its skin is thin: you can leave it on in the oven, or peel it with a peeler for a mash or a soup.

## Cutting it for the dish

- As fries or wedges, for the oven, with a little oil and salt.
- In dice, for a soup or a curry.
- Halved, to bake it whole in the oven and mash it with a fork.

## How long it takes

One minute.

## Storing it

Out of the fridge, cool and dark, one to two weeks. Cooked, in the fridge three days.

## Make it tonight

The page "Oven-roasted vegetables": sweet potato wedges, twenty-five minutes.

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