Roasted Sweet Potato

If you were to name the ultimate comfort food, I bet sweet potatoes are not on your list. For many Koreans, however, the sweet tuber is a favourite. From pre-packaged snacks, stews, desserts or just by itself, the sweet potato is extremely popular in Korean cuisine. Korean sweet potatoes almost always feature brownish purple skin with yellow flesh. They are much more dense and sweeter than North American sweet potatoes. There are infinite ways to enjoy this popular root vegetable in Korea. There’s a myriad of pre-packed and prepared foods that use sweet potatoes as a primary ingredient. From lattes, yogurt drinks, cakes, noodles and pizzas, sweet potatoes are represented. The versatile root vegetable is healthy, easy to grow and tastes great; which is why it’s so popular in Korea. Korean people usually enjoy it standing by a street vendor’s hot barrel-cart during winter, eagerly waiting for a steaming hot sweet potato wrapped in the prior day’s newspaper. It was the epitome of winter comfort eating! 

Korean Sweet Potato

Running Man members eating Korean Sweet Potato