Magically healthy panko-baked sweet potato puffs
Are you sick of kugels but aren’t sure what else you can make to serve on the side of a Shabbos or Yom Tov meal? Here’s something that’s just as EASY as a kugel, only in tasty, crunchy, bite-sized morsels. Last week, I wanted something like the Alexa brand sweet potato “tater tots,” which by all accounts are absolutely delicious. We can’t buy them here, so I knew I had to make something from scratch. My puffs came out totally different, but utterly delightful in their own right. They’re a great way to sneak even more of that sweet potato goodness onto your family’s menu. Plus, they’re terrifically simple: Bake or boil the sweepoes (I boiled mine), puree them with egg yolks, cornstarch and seasoning, and then coat the mixture with panko before baking. I added a little melted coconut oil to the sweet potatoes; you could probably leave it out OR substitute canola if you wanted something subtler (there wasn’t a strong coconut taste, however). Everybody loved the ta