Japanese Sweet Potato Air Fryer Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is the best way to cook a Japanese sweet potato? ›

Bake at low temperature (325ºF or 160ºC). Slow and steady will bring out the best texture and flavor, so let it bake for 90 minutes. Check the doneness with the bamboo skewer. The thickness of each sweet potato is different, so make sure it's cooked through using a skewer.

If you'd like, you can soak the sweet potato slices for 30 minutes up to 2 hours before frying to remove excess starch.

Because they're a little drier and starchier than other varieties, Japanese sweet potatoes have a distinct creaminess and a fluffier, lighter texture, a little more like a regular baking potato than a standard orange sweet potato. They also have a particularly sweet yet, subtle flavor compared to many other varieties.

Banish Soggy Sweet Potato Fries.

The sweet potatoes steam when crowded together, instead of air frying. For the best, most crispy results, cook the fries in a single layer so that the air has room to circulate.

Best of all they contain all the essential amino acids that our bodies need. Are Japanese sweet potatoes healthier than regular sweet potatoes? All varieties of sweet potatoes are good for you but these purple-skin tubers do have higher concentrations of specific vitamins and nutrients.

Yes, you can eat sweet potato skin! It's a great way to reap the nutrition benefits 🙂 Need help using up the rest of the tahini or miso that you purchased for this recipe? Checkout my tahini recipe roundup and my miso recipe roundup for more inspiration!

I wouldn't bother doing potatoes from the raw state, without soaking. It will take about a half an hour and the texture won't be nearly as rewarding. They just don't get very crispy without that cold soak.

Why do my air fryer sweet potato fries turn black? Sweet potatoes contain a higher concentration of sugar than standard potatoes, and caramelize as they cook in the air fryer. If you find the fries are darkening too quickly or deeply, cook at a lower temperature, or for a shorter period of time.

Soaking potatoes in water helps remove excess starch. Excess starch can inhibit the potatoes from cooking evenly as well as creating a gummy or sticky texture on the outside of your potatoes. Cold water is used because hot water would react with the starch activating it, making it harder to separate from the potatoes.

Yaki-imo Baked Sweet Potatoes Are in Hot Demand Around the World! One delicious way of cooking sweet potatoes is to make them into yaki-imo by baking them with the skin left on. Not over an open flame or in an oven, though — the best way is to immerse them in piping-hot stones.

Why are Japanese sweet potatoes so good? ›

They taste like buttery chestnuts, and when you bake them their interiors get so fluffy, thanks to less moisture, they taste like a cross between a white Russet and an orange Beauregard — and somehow more appealing than either.

I've also seen them at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods (most likely labeled as Japanese sweet potatoes, which are essentially the same as Korean chestnut sweet potatoes).

Sweet potatoes take 40 to 50 minutes to bake in the air fryer at 370 degrees F, compared to 50 to 65 minutes (or longer) in the oven (check out How to Bake a Sweet Potato). Use that time to whip up a fast, easy main like Pan Fried Chicken Breast. It's Super Versatile.

The great news about air fryers is that you can use foil along with parchment paper to cook your food in an air fryer. Just remember that if it's safe and effective to use in a conventional oven, it will work just fine in an air fryer.

Firstly, if your potatoes are still wet before being placed into an air fryer, this can cause your potatoes not to crispen up. You can avoid this by thoroughly patting dry your potatoes before you place them in the air fryer. Secondly, you might be putting in too many potato chips so they aren't cooking evenly.

Baking can also cause an 80% drop in vitamin A levels, twice as much as boiling. Therefore, from a nutritional standpoint, boiling rather than baking should be recommended for cooking sweet potato.

All you have to do is slice the sweet potatoes into wedges, mix together the Sesame Soy Glaze, drizzle it over the potatoes, then roast Japanese sweet potatoes in the oven until they are tender and delicious. Then dig in! Serve them as a side with veggie-burgers, sandwiches, or lentil patties.

Naturally low in fat and high in nutritional value, they are packed with health benefits. The sweet tuber is rich in antioxidants as well as heart-healthy minerals. In addition, the nutrients in Japanese sweet potatoes may help you lose weight, banish depression, improve your vision and control glucose levels.

Japanese sweet potatoes also come in two different varieties. In Korean, they are called “bam goguma” and “mul goguma.” These two types are the same Japanese sweet potato, but their appearance and texture are slightly different depending on their growing conditions.