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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Alice Zaslavsky

‘Like a baked potato, made salad-y’: Alice Zaslavsky’s sweet potato jackets with sour cream and slaw

Close up of a large serving plate with roasted sweet potato jackets with slaw and sour cream and chive dressing
‘I can’t tell you how great this salad is for kids, and those young at heart’: Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for yampers, or sweet potato jackets with slaw and sour cream and chive dressing. Photograph: Rochelle Eagle

Sweet potato is one of those veg that exemplifies transeasonality. While the UK and North America start to turn their collars up, we’re unbuttoning ours down under. And yet sweet potatoes - or yams – unite us.

In Australia, you’ll find smaller sweet potatoes are abundant and great bang for buck at the moment. As we enter barbecue season, this recipe makes a great bring-a-plate; if you’re somewhere cold in the world, serve this warm and let the cheese and sour cream dressing become oozy.

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