- Hi, friends, it's Sam, and today I am going to try
a new idea where I test food trends
and see if they really work.
Today, I am going to try sweet potato toast.
I actually posted this on my blog,
itdoesnttastelikechicken.com a few weeks ago
and I heard from some people that they
didn't actually believe it would work.
The whole concept is you slice some sweet potato,
pop it in a toaster and it'll cook up
and become a delicious slice of sweet potato
that you can treat like toast,
you can put different toppings on it,
you can just eat it plain,
you could eat it with some vegan butter. Delicious.
Some of you thought that no, no, no,
you have to bake it first, you have to cook it first.
It's never gonna cook in the toaster. That is not true.
So today, I am here to prove to you
that sweet potato toast is a real thing,
it works, it's delicious and you can do it too.
So all you need is one sweet potato.
I am a big fan of sweet potatoes.
We've been there and done that.
I have not washed the sweet potato. I am going to wash it.
This happens to be a really ginormous sweet potato.
I think it's gonna be too wide to fit into my toaster
so I'm actually gonna cut some of the ends off.
This one is unusually large though.
I didn't have to do with the last sweet potato I grabbed.
Then I'm gonna cut some slices.
I want them to be about a quarter of an inch thick.
♪It's the eye of the potato ♪
Here, I've got two beautiful slices of sweet potato.
You can see that they're not very thick.
This one has my hair on it. That's gross.
Pop these slices in the, oh.
Pop these slices in the toaster.
I'm gonna set it to the maximum amount of time it'll cook.
Pop it down. Now, I'm just gonna wait.
(upbeat music)
♪ Potato toast, sweet potato toast, ♪
♪ Sweet potato toast, sweet potato toast ♪
♪ I'm making up a song and it's really soundin' bad ♪
♪ I'm sorry to subject you to this song, la la la ♪
It popped! The first go I can see that it's warm,
but it is definitely not cooked.
Round number two.
So you can put whatever toppings you like
on this sweet potato toast.
Just some vegan butter, avocado toast,
a chickpea salad sandwich and stick that on top.
Put peanut butter and jelly, might be kinda weird,
I don't know.
As a open faced sandwich kinda deal,
you can try to do it in a closed faced sandwich,
whatever you want, you can do it.
But one of the ones I discovered that I really like,
it's just a little Earth Balance,
which is my favorite vegan butter, a drizzle of maple syrup.
I'm Canadian, what can I say? I like maple syrup, okay?
♪ Maple syrup, Canadian gold. ♪
And a sprinkle of powdered ginger.
It's warm, sweet, buttery, slightly spicy.
Now it's getting soft, but it's still not cooked yet.
So I'm gonna pop it back in again.
That is the third time I've put it through.
This is what's key for cooking it.
You can't expect it to cook in one go,
you have to put it through a few times.
Popped again? Okay. Don't burn my fingers!
So it's almost cooked, you can see ...
Hot, hot, hot, hot! Starting to get some brown bits.
It's hot! I think it needs a one more go around.
Four! This is the fourth time
I've put it through the toaster.
I'm just watching snaps on my phone now,
while I wait for it to toast.
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I think it's done, so that was three and a half times
through the toaster.
I've read on some blogs that it took them about two cycles
to put it through their toaster before it was cooked.
The last time I made it, it took a full fourth time,
and so I guess I cut these ones just a little bit more thin.
Maybe the sweet potato was a little different.
So it's gonna be different on all of your toasters,
just play with it, keep an eye on it.
But when it looks like this, hot, soft, all the way through,
really hot, it's got some delicious brown spots.
You see? It works! Just like that.
Hair, get out of maple syrup.
Drippy and hot. Mmm. That's so good. Mmm.
♪ Sweet potato toast is delicious ♪
Mm. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
Mm, mm, mm.
So there we go, sweet potato toast,
straight out of the toaster.
Works perfectly, just like that, delicious.
A great snack, sandwich topper, anything you want.
You know, you can even use this as a layer
in a veggie burger or something, and even put a bun on top.
It's just delicious to have a piece of roasted sweet potato.
I'll put the link to the recipe on my blog
in the comments below, however,
there's not really much of a recipe.
It's just kind of like, toast some sweet potato.
But if you wanna see the written version, it is down there.
If you have any other food trends you want me to try,
let me know in the comments.
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I will see you next time! Bon Appetegan!