Eat Your Veggies: Korean Sweet Potato
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This is a recipe for how to cook Korean sweet potato and a quick and easy topping to eat it with! It's salty and creamy and pairs extremely well with the mild, nutty flavor of the goguma. I would tag this recipe as a MUST-TRY.
So much of how I cook, what I eat, and what I like comes from my mom. For as long as I can remember, my mom has always loved Korean sweet potato or goguma in Korean. Korean sweet potato has a purple/reddish skin with a pale yellow flesh. As far as flavor, it is less sweet than the orange sweet potato that you're probably familiar with and has more of a chestnutty (is that a word?) taste.
They can be eaten a number of ways, but they are amazing plain as well. To eat them plain we usually either steam them in a double boiler or bake them in the oven. In the winter, if we have the fireplace going, my dad will double wrap them in foil and place them in the fire (not advisable if you have a gas fireplace). Another plus of having a masonry wood burning fireplace, along with that crackly sound : )
It is AMAZING, if I do say so myself. It is the absolute perfect combination of sweet, salty, creamy, and fresh.
Ingredients
4-6 Korean sweet potatoes or goguma, rinsed and scrubbed clean
one stick of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
4 tbsp. of miso paste
3 tbsp. of chopped green onions
To prepare goguma:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Scrub goguma clean with a vegetable brush and rinse. Pat dry with paper towel.
- Place on a foil lined baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
**Cooking times vary on the oven as well as the size of the potatoes. They'll be done when you can poke through the middle of the largest potato with ease*
While you're waiting for the potatoes, prepare the miso butter.
To prepare miso butter:
- In a bowl, mash together softened butter, miso paste, and green onions. That's it.
After your potatoes are done, carefully split lengthwise (be careful of the steam). Slather on as much of the miso butter as you want and dig in!
