209K views · 12K reactions | Dig sweet potatoes, roast sweet potatoes, roast a chicken, and have a delicious dinner. | Old house renovation-Mr.Lu | Facebook

Don't boil your sweet potatoes! Roast them instead. (And skip the cloying marshmallows. Sweet potatoes are plenty sweet on their own.) Culinary production director Wes Martin explains why we prefer the oven to the stove: Boiling draws flavor out of the sweet potatoes and into the water, and that flavor gets washed down the drain. Roasting, however, drives moisture away, concentrating the flavors and caramelizing the natural sugars in the potatoes for a more complex sweetness. The mash then is en