Comments on: Purple Sweet Potatoes or are they Purple Yams?!?

By: Renate

Renate — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:36:11 +0000

Here at 8000′ in Cotacachi, Ecuador, always available so called Camote,
taste like sweet potato but can be a bit stringy. I like to know: when I cook them like
potatoes (have no oven), the water turns a bright medium green. What’s that??

By: grace

grace — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:14:51 +0000

thanks, finally someone agrees with me on this…ube is not purple taro nor purple sweet potato. I was so excited when i finally found a Tastee brand, Whole Purple Yam (Ube) in our local asian grocer. I was going to make ube cake for the first time. I was so disappointed to find out, after i boiled the “ube” and it was’nt ube…the texture is so much like the purple sweet potato! I was mad actually…because i thought i have found that something that ive been looking for in a very long time. what a let down. shame on Tastee ! oh well…back to the drawing board…still i need to find fresh ube…i would have it shipped here in michigan if im sure its really ube and not purple sweet potato or taro…

By: Zerho

Zerho — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:51:09 +0000

Remembered my sister painstakingly making ube halaya and not allowing us to taste the unfinished dessert. It was only when I tasted it that she realized the “ube” was actually purple camote. Fortunately the camote halaya was still delicious..

By: corrine

corrine — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:41:52 +0000

I bought some kilos of purple sweet potato on the road side. It was very good! How come I don’t see them in the market?

By: chichay

chichay — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:28:52 +0000

oh, purple camote tastes good when boiled with a slather of butter for breakfast. :)

By: betty q.

betty q. — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 03:44:54 +0000

Thanks Bijin but I am very careful bringing outdoor plants indoor unless I squirt them first with something like a drop of dish washing detergent in water. When they have had a good bath in it, then I feel comfortable bringing them indoors.

By: biyay

biyay — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:25:39 +0000

i think the purple variety is called “indelible” (pronounced phonetically) in bicol. i rarely see it in the markets nowadays

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:10:01 +0000

In Perú, there's a purple potato called papa púrpura (botanical name: solanum andigenum). It's not a sweet potato, just a regular waxy potato with an immensely deep purple color and is higher in antioxidants than other potato varieties. In the past they were reserved for the Incan nobility.

By: Grace

Grace — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 06:25:19 +0000

Boil, mash & mix with glutinous rice flour & other ingredients to make Japanese doughnuts ala Gavino’s or “Pon de ring”. They are fried so they’re sinfully delicious :)

By: khrishyne

khrishyne — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 02:12:51 +0000

the future of sweet potato fries. mixed with yellow, orange and white camote