When rice prices are high, eat kamote…
My Sweetheart recently sent me an online delivery of kamote, in memory of that yummy kamote cue we tasted in Batanes. Come to think of it, the focus is now on considering other alternatives for our daily staple, rice, whose prices are rising by the day. If you do the marketing for your household, you will really feel the pinch since P34 is now the lowest price per kilo, whereas before that will buy you the high grade, premium variety already.
The benefits of eating kamote (sweet potato) cannot be underestimated. I do know of friends who go on a diet and just eat kamote. It is enough to fill them for the day. The root crop is a good source of dietary fiber, beta carotene, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and complex carbohydrates.
Kamote is good and tasty even when simply boiled.
More recently, I had it as an ingredient for my papaya lumpia which combines shredded green papaya, sweet potato and tokwa or tofu. It’s a yummy alternative to the usual bean sprouts and lumpia vegetable we have.
Otherwise, Filipinos are quite content to make desserts of their sweet potatoes. We find kamote in our halo-halo, and this easy candied yam recipe I once tried.
Kamote with caramelized sugar = kamote cue. A classic Pinoy street food!
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P34 to a kilo??? Wow… And there’s nothing that could be done about that?
Well, if there should be an upside to that, less rice means less source of diabetes. heh! Pretty lame but whatever floats your boat, huh?
I agree with you, Ajay. I think we Filipinos need a complete mindset change as far as our staple food. In terms of land, water, fertilizer and other requirements needed for growing rice, it’s just not sustainable for a country like ours.
Love sweet potatoes, however I find them, regardless of their names. Used to get them roasted in Japan, buy them by the 100g. Find little pickup trucks with chimneys(!), roasting them over coals.
My introduction to camote-cue was at Pension Ivatan, in Batanes
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Heck, just bake ‘em and throw a little butter on ‘em, better than regular baked potato.
Uy! Kamote! I also add kamote to lumpiang togue. Adds a hint of sweetness. But Papaya? Interesting, I must check that out…
Hi there.. I hope that the next thing you will post is something that relates to the benefits of camote cue in comparison with banana cue.. Thank you and God bless..