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This recipe for sweet potato pasta won a national recipe competition, and is sure to delight your family! Make these grain-free noodles with either sweet potatoes or yams.
This recipe for sweet potato pasta is guaranteed to establish your reputation as a creative and enterprising cook!
The biggest bonus is that these grain-free noodles will fool even the most die-hard carb monsters in your home, according to Ashley Tudor, author of the book Sweet Potato Power from which this recipe was generously shared.
This recipe even won a national sweet potato recipe competition!
Note that you need a mandoline slicer to make sweet potato pasta that is linguine-style. This specialized kitchen gadget is designed for easily and precisely cutting hard vegetables into uniform thin slices, ribbons, shreds, or other specialty shapes.
If you enjoy sweet potatoes and yams, try these other dishes inspired by traditional wisdom.
Preparation & Serving Tips
If you want to make this dish, but don’t have a mandoline slicer, try buying 100% sweet potato noodles. They are available in many healthfood stores either in refrigerated packages or shelf-stable on the international aisle (such as this brand).
Be sure to read labels, however, as some are blended with grain flour!
If you have a mandoline slicer or decide to buy one, you can use it to make pasta ribbons from other vegetables as well, including zucchini, spaghetti squash, carrots, and butternut squash!
Sweet Potato Pasta Recipe
This sweet potato pasta recipe is sure to delight your family and has even won a national sweet potato recipe competition. Make these noodles with either sweet potato or yams.
Ingredients
- 1 yam or sweet potato medium size, long in shape
- 1 Tbsp grassfed butter unsalted
- 6 sage leaves preferably organic
- sea salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
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Wash the sweet potato (or yam) in filtered water and peel.
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Slice lengthwise as thinly as possible. A mandoline slicer is the best tool to use. Note that a potato peeler will not result in thin enough slices to achieve the desired linguine-like texture.
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Cut the long, thin slices into even strips about 1/4 inch wide. Set aside.
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In a large saute pan, melt butter on medium-low heat and add the sage leaves. Watch the butter closely as the sage begins to brown (you do not want the sage to burn).
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When the sage is crisp, remove from the pan and set aside.
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Add the sweet potato pasta strips to the butter and heat thoroughly. Stir and toss for about 2-3 minutes.
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When tender and warmed through, arrange the sweet potato ribbons on a serving platter and garnish with the fried sage.
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Serve immediately alone or with desired pasta sauce.
I have a mandoline and just got sweet potatoes in my organic produce basket from the Produce Fairy. Can’t wait to try this! It looks awesome.
If your mandolin has a julienne attachment you can do all the slicing at once 🙂
I love this! I have been eating sweet potatoes like crazy lately. Literally like 2 a day for a couple weeks. Don’t know why I’ve been craving them; in fact, I don’t know the nutritional profile of them. Just lazy and haven’t looked it up yet. Absolutely love this recipe and will make it.
My husband likes the nasty store-bought boxed nutrient-stripped pasta (it’s one of the main things I can’t stop him from buying!). I bet if I make this, he will eat it though.
Question: why does it say sweet potato recipe, but the ingredients say “yam?” I thought they were two totally different things???
I have some yams we just bought from a local market – gonna make this week!
Thanks!
I’m gonna try this for sure. I’m wondering if I can get my apple slicer/peeler to work on a sweet potato for long strips.
I’ve tried using a mandolin before for sweet potatoes, and they are so dense that it didn’t slice well at all for me. The sweet potato kept getting stuck. Maybe I just have a cheap mandolin? It was the first time I used it so I know it wasn’t a dull blade (or it shouldn’t have been at least). Any ideas how to remedy?
Sweet potatoes are hard to slice with a mandolin. Smaller ones are sometimes a little less dense, but that doesn’t help with a recipe like this where you want your “linguine” long! You can steam them lightly or parboil them to soften them first. this probably wouldn’t hurt the recipe and might even help it, as I’m guess ing will take longer to cook the sweet potato strips than it sounds like from reading the recipe.
In the United States, there is no difference between sweet potatoes and yams. What are sold as yams are really just a type of sweet potato. True yams are from West Africa and Asia and very difficult to find in the U.S.
What’s the difference between yams and sweet potatoes? At my stores, yams are orange inside abs sweet potatoes are more whitish
It would be a nice side dish with a steak too I’m thinking.
How about some grassfed meatballs?
How about some grassfed meatballs?