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#Where to buy murasaki sweet potato skin#
Look for small potatoes with reddish-purple skin and white flesh, just like the emoji! You’re also likely to find them at your local Asian market.

Luckily, Japanese sweet potatoes are found at many North American grocery stores like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and Sprouts. Starchy varieties like the standard orange sweet potato or purple flesh Okinawan sweet potato just won’t give you the caramely, soft texture. Note that this recipe will only work with the suggested variety of sweet potato. Sure, you could just go out and get a real Magnum (if it fits your macros, of course), but we also like the idea of having frozen sweet treats on hand that isn’t loaded with added sugar. In Taiwan, you can buy frozen baked sweet potatoes in convenience stores!īut we can take credit for dipping them in chocolate and covering them with a drizzle of white chocolate and peanuts, because here at WAG, we’re all about finding new and creative ways to fuel our bodies while also having a little decadence. We can’t take credit for this brilliance. Knowing how well Japanese sweet potatoes mash up with chocolate, we wondered, why not pop them in the freezer for a little popsicle action? When frozen, roasted Japanese sweet potatoes take on a custard-like texture with a nutty sweetness reminiscent of ice cream bars. Combined with chocolate, they make for a wonderfully sweet and satisfying treat that’s full of fiber, nutrients, and complex carbohydrates-with little added sugar. If you’ve made our WAG Sweet Potato Cookie Dough, you already know the wonders of roasting Japanese sweet potatoes (also known as satsumaimo or Murasaki) until they’re soft and caramel-y. It all sounds like an oxymoron, but with the right variety of sweet potatoes, you’ve got yourself a creamy, cool summer treat with a crisp chocolate shell. Hear us out: frozen sweet potato “Magnum” bars.
