Roasted Japanese Sweet Potatoes · i am a food blog

Soft Japanese baked potatoes are the best sweet potato you will ever eat: nutrious, creamy and sweet.

What is Yaki Imo?

Yaki Imo is a sweet Japanese potato in the oven! Yaki IMO results in the terracotta (or roasted) potato. Most people in Japan, when they refer to Yaki Imo, they talk about Satsuma Imo, who are gentle Japanese potatoes, named after the Satsuma region on the island of Kyushu. Satsuma Imo has dusty pinkish purple skin inside the pale cream. When roasted, the interior becomes a beautiful golden yellow. They are a little smaller than your usual sweet orange potatoes. If you have seen the Emoji of sweet potatoes, you know exactly what an IMO Satsuma: . They are super sweet and delicious, incredible and satisfactory.

What is the best way to cook a gentle Japanese potato?

Pastry shop! This is the best absolute way: the subtle and grilled subtle aroma that will fill your house is absolutely irresistible.

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Soft potato types

In Japan, there are hundreds of varieties of Satsuma IMO, each with different levels of sweetness, textures and skins. Here in North America, the sweet potatoes that we usually see are soft orange skin potatoes. Orange sweet potatoes are completely different, both in appearance, taste and texture. Sweet Japanese potatoes begin their lives with a pale creamy interior that becomes golden after being cooked. They are also much more starchy, more soft and a little drier than orange sweet potatoes. When you cook them, their incredible gentle caramelise and condenses in a slightly, soft and soft texture.

Where to buy Japanese sweet potatoes

They sell sweet potatoes of Japanese varieties in Asian grocery stores, whole foods, trader markets Joe and farmers. Sometimes specialized stores will really import into potatoes that have been cultivated in Japan, but generally what you will find is the Japanese variety of sweet potato that has been grown in North America. If you have the opportunity and you see other soft Japanese potatoes that have been grown in Kagoshima, please get them!

I just did a side taste side by side and they are so much better. More creamy, softer, softer and more cream. I found kagoshima chestnuts imported Beniharuka and they were incredible. They were labeled like little ones and were very thin. I would have preferred the average size, but even having access to Japanese adult potatoes is incredible so I do not complain!

For advice: If you live near an Asian grocery store like H-Mart or a Japanese grocery storeThey can sell the Yaki IMO. They keep sweet potatoes roasted in brown bags in a heated box and sell them in the form of snacks. If you don’t have time to roast yours, you can take it a little ready to go.

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How to choose good sweet potatoes

Choose potatoes with firm and smooth skin dense and not too large. The smallest potatoes are sweeter and have the bonus not to take so long to cook!

How to store

Keep your sweet, raw potatoes in a cool, dry and dark space up to 4 weeks.

How to cook gentle Japanese potatoes

Making Yaki Imo at home is incredibly easy: simply cooking and leaving the starch in the potatoes decompose and caramelize, becoming soft and soft.

Start by cleaning and drying your sweet potatoes. If you wish, use a fork to slightly sting a few holes in the potatoes.

Place them on a rack and bake in the oven, naked and without aluminum foil, until the skins are clear and the interior is very tender and soft.

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Cooking at different temperatures will give you different textures of potatoes.

325 ° F. Bake for 1-1.5 hours depending on the size of a super soft and soft texture.

375 ° F. Bake for 1-1.15 hours depending on the size of a super soft soft cream inside and crisp caramelized on the outside.

Personally, I like cooking at 375 °, which makes the exterior super crisp and caramelized with a very tender, very sweet and butter texture, similar to a pastry cream.

Stove Top Yaki Imo

If you don’t have an oven, you can also make Yaki IMO on the top of the stove.
Place the sweet potatoes in a cast iron pan and cover the potatoes and cook with baseness, turning every 20 minutes until they are soft and cooked, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Nutritional information and health benefits

Soft Japanese potatoes are super healthy complex carbohydrates. They will feed you with energy and keep you full because they are rich in dietary fiber. They are also rich in vitamin A, C and B6. Because they are so satisfactory, they make an excellent snack, on the side or main.

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How to eat Yaki Imo

Like that! Take advantage of it by warming yourself up after they rested a little. You can hold them, peel the skin and eat them, or you can also eat the skins. Sometimes I like to use a spoon to remove the inside, then eat the crispy skin at the end when I finished collecting the creamy intermediaries. Seriously so good.

How to store sweet, cooked roasted potatoes

If you have an additional Yaki IMO, wrap them and place them in a tight container in the refrigerator. You can enjoy them directly from the refrigerator or reheat them in the microwave for a hot potato.

I love the Yaki Imo so much. We even went to Kagoshima, where Satsuma IMO come from to enjoy super local sweet potatoes. I love them so much that I have a favorite yaki imo shop in Ginza. This is called Tsubo Yaki-Imo. They sell gentle Japanese potatoes that roast in traditional pots. They are absolutely incredible. Many people buy them for omitage and their OMI is one of the things that I miss most in Japan. If you like Japanese sweet potatoes and you are still in Tokyo, go for it! Until the journey opens again, I hope you find soft Japanese potatoes and roast them at home. You will love them, believe me!

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