• baking sheet
• heavy saucepan
• wooden spoon
• knife
• spoon

• 4 large, dark red sweet potatoes
• 1½ T butter or vegetable oil
• ½ c onion, minced
• 4 T crystallized ginger, minced
• 2 T golden raisins
• 2 T prunes, chopped
• ½ t salt
• black pepper

Clean sweet potatoes, dry, and place on baking sheet. Bake 45 minutes to an hour, until soft. Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, melt butter over medium heat, add onions, and sauté until clear - 8 to 10 minutes.

Cut each sweet potato in half lengthwise, then scoop out most of the flesh, leaving at least ¼ inch along the entire skin.

Combine sweet potato flesh with onion, ginger, raisins, prunes, salt, and pepper. Spoon into sweet potato skins* and bake until very hot, about 5 minutes. Serve immediately.

Adapted from The Moosewood Collective's Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates: Festive meals for holidays and special occasions. It's part of the vegetarian Christmas menu and called "Stuffed Yams" despite a note about actually using sweet potatoes rather than yams.

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If you like stuffed foods, you might want to try these other vegetarian recipes:

• stuffed cabbage
• stuffed grape leaves
• stuffed mushrooms
• stuffed peppers
• stuffed shells

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