Can Sweet Potato Casserole Be Prepared The Day Before And Cooked The Next Day

Sweetness potatoes are often treated like their savory (white) cousins and become mashed, roasted, turned into noodles, shaped into pancakes, or baked in a casserole. Only our favorite (and easiest!) mode to make them is baked — especially when you lot think of all the ways you lot can stuff them.

To learn how to cook and serve sweet potatoes in v essential ways, watch the video above. And read on for more info on buying and storing them.

What to Wait for When Shopping

At that place are many varieties of sweet potatoes. What well-nigh Americans are familiar with is a rather sweet, moist, orange-fleshed potato with very dark skin. When this variety was introduced in the 1930s, it was marketed as a Louisiana "yam," though it's non a yam at all. (FYI: If you're looking for bodily yams — cylindrical shape with nighttime, bark-like skin and white, royal, or red insides — head to the international aisle.)

There are two master types of sweet potatoes: house and soft. Firm sugariness potatoes accept a gilt skin and lighter mankind while soft sweet potatoes take a copper skin with orange flesh. When shopping, l ook for sweet potatoes that feel heavy for their size and have no bruises, soft spots, or signs of sprouting. Whatsoever you do, handle them gently because they trample very easily.

How to Store Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are quite perishable. Store in a cool, dark identify up to one week. Yep, they don't last as long as people remember. For peak freshness, don't store them in the refrigerator.

How to Prep and Cook Sweet Potatoes

When preparing sweet potatoes, first run them under cold water to clean them off. Depending on how you like to consume them, you tin can also skin them, which is cracking if y'all're roasting chunks or mashing them. If yous're just subbing in a sweet spud for a regular baked potato, proceed the skins on. You can bake them upwardly the traditional — and longer — style by using the oven and cooking them for 45 minutes to an hour at 450°F. Or try our shortcut microwave method (shown in the video above) to speed it up for a weeknight fix. Then, make full them with all your favorite toppings. Enjoy!