Yam recipes

Creamy Cajun yam and pecan bisque pureed silky smooth with blackened seasoning, green onions, and chicken broth. A warming Southern soup ready in 45 minutes with just 7 ingredients.

Yam Wun Sen: Thai hot and sour glass noodle salad with button mushrooms, black fungus, carrot, and a bright lemon-soy-chili dressing. A vegetarian take on a Bangkok street classic.

Thai chicken coconut soup simmers bone-in chicken in lemongrass and galangal-infused coconut milk, finished with lime, fish sauce, cilantro, and chili. A Tom Kha Gai classic ready in 30 minutes.

These roasted sweet potatoes go perfectly with the smoky and mildly spiced tangy lime sour cream. Definitely inspires you to cook sweet potatoes more often!

Asian carrot soup blends carrots, sweet potato, scallions, and fresh ginger into a silky vegan puree finished with sesame oil. Naturally low-fat and freezer-friendly.

Very tasty! It's hard to go wrong with garlic, ginger, soy sauce and sesame oil, and the potatoes and sweet potatoes soaked up all the deliciousness. A great way to cook root vegetables, and this can be served as a side dish or a vegetarian main dish.

This vegetable miso stew will for sure warm you up on a cold winter day. It's quick-easy to prepare, loaded with goodness, and it tastes delicious.

A cozy and comfy miso stew is ideal for cool fall and cold winter. Sweet potato, tofu (or you can use cooked chicken or pork meat instead), and mushrooms are browned with garlic, ginger and scallions first to maximize the deliciousness, then simmered in a miso based soup. Warms you up in a second!

Look for sweet potato noodles in Asian or Korean grocery stories, or use soba noodles or even spaghetti works too. The dish is super easy to prepare, and it tastes delicious. If you are a big fan on Asian flavor, such as sesame oil, sesame seeds, and soy sauce, etc, you will not be able to resist this mouth-watering Japchae.

Pork chops seared crisp and simmered in a Louisiana-style sweet potato gravy with pecans, cane syrup, and dark roux. Southern comfort with a nutty, subtly sweet finish.

Traditional Caribbean callaloo soup with dasheen, okra, plantain, and yam puréed into a silky, spiced broth with a Scotch bonnet kick. Warm, green, and soul-filling.

Traditional Japanese noodles in a homemade dashi broth made from kombu, bonito flakes, tamari, mirin, and fresh ginger juice. An authentic kake-udon or kake-soba base ready in 30 minutes.

Scrambled eggs with golden pan-fried sweet potatoes, crispy bacon, ground red chiles, and sliced green onions. A hearty Southwestern breakfast skillet that puts regular hash browns to shame.

Satsuma Jiru is a hearty Japanese miso pork and vegetable stew with daikon, sweet potato, shiitake mushrooms, konnyaku, and burdock root. A rustic regional comfort soup finished with shichimi togarashi.

Garlic-ginger chicken baked with sweet potatoes in a sweet-savory soy, sherry and brown sugar glaze. Chicken and tender sweet potato medallions roast in one dish, then go over steamed rice with a scatter of green onion.

Ham and turkey hash with sweet potato, apple, and red bell pepper, blanketed in a peppery cheddar cheese sauce and broiled bubbly. Great leftover ham rescue.