We live in an agrcultural area with many different crops grown around us. One of those crops is sweet potatoes. We are blessed that after the owners get through harvesting they allow people in the community to glean the fields. In November my husband was able to glean 2 five-gallon buckets full and after letting them cure, I've set to work freezing them.
Here's how I'm doing it ...
The first thing I do is wash and scrub all the dirt and sand off of them. I use a vegetable scrub brush to make sure to get it all off because nobody wants to bite into grains of sand in the midst of enjoying their sweet potato!
After washing and scrubbing the sweet potatoes, I line a flat pan with parchment paper.
Fill the pan with the clean sweet potatoes and bake them at 350 degrees for 90 minutes.
After they are done baking, I let them cool on the counter and then refrigerated them overnight.
Next, I vacuum seal them into meal size portions and add them to the freezer part of my pantry.
When we get ready to have some we'll take a package out of the freezer, let it thaw in the refrigerator, slice the potatoes into 1/4 - 1/2 inch slices, fry them up in a little bit of butter, make some gravy and enjoy!
This is a treat meal for us as the potatoes are high in carbs, (not as high as white potatoes, but still high) but we look forward to having it occasionally.
patsi
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