Great boiled or baked. Sweet flavour. A very popular vegetable dish all year round. Kumara (sweet potato) is a very versatile vegetable! it can be mashed, barbecued, used in soups, stir fries, quiches, braises or stews, cooked as chips or wedges or baked whole. Thin kumara slices will puff up into crisps. To use kumara in salads, cook first until soft, and cool. Kumara goes well with all meats and also complements fruits such as banana, pineapple, apricot and apple. Kumara is a good source of vitamin c and a source of dietary fibre and niacin.
