Sweet potatoes aren’t just for turkey day anymore. There’s so much you can do with them. Don’t be fooled into thinking they’re only tasty if they’re covered in marshmallows! “But those aren’t really sweet potatoes,” you say, “they’re yams!”. I thought so, too! That is, until I learned that true yams don’t grow in the US. So if someone says they’ve made candied yams, they’re probably referring to sweet potatoes.

One way to enjoy the natural and delicious flavor of sweet potatoes without all the fuss is to make sweet potato fries! You can just pop these in the oven, don’t worry about setting up the deep fryer. Mbshah’s recipe for baked sweet potato fries will be a hit the next time you serve them with a juicy burger.

Since we’re talking about healthy sweet potato recipes, we shouldn’t forget to mention atxvegan’s Roasted Sweet Potato Salad. You’d prepare the sweet potato similar how you would if you were baking fries, except you’d chop them into little cubes then sprinkle them on your salad like croutons!

Who knew sweet potatoes could be incorporated into a variety of savory and sweet recipes? And that’s not all of them, here are a few more you should consider trying. Gen25’s Ham and Sweet Potato Salad is a light summertime meal while MelissaWelch’s Steamed Southern Sweet Potato Custard is the ideal individual-serving dessert… and all of these recipes are family-friendly.