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Apr 25, 2016,

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Baked Sweet Potatoes

Very small baked purple sweet potatoes are often served with Hawaiian plate lunch. Sometimes they may be mixed with canned pineapple or coconut milk and served almost as a pudding. If you want to serve sweet potatoes and can’t find the purple ones, look for what are called garnet yams–they are not yams; it is just a marketing ploy by producers–and choose the smallest you can find.

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