Recipes · inspired by Baked Sweet Potato Mash in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 6
Golden Sweet Potato Bites
Sweet potato mashed with butter and honey, shaped into ovals, brushed with egg and toasted golden. A Japanese bakery favorite.
- Ready in
- 18 min
- Ingredients
- 5
- Makes
- about 8 bites
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
In Japan this is called suito poteto (“sweet potato”) and it is sold in bakeries every autumn. Microwaving the potato instead of baking it saves most of an hour.
Make it a learning moment: sweet potatoes get sweeter as they cook because heat turns some of their starch into sugar.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Grown-up Poke the sweet potato with a fork and microwave 6 to 8 minutes until soft.
- Kids Scoop out the flesh and mash it with the butter, sugar and milk.
- Kids When cool enough to handle, shape into small ovals and set on a lined tray.
- Kids Brush the tops with egg yolk.
- Grown-up Toast in a toaster oven or under the broiler 3 to 5 minutes, until golden on top. Watch closely.
