Ingredient
Moist-fleshed sweet potato
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Americans use the word "yam" to refer to a sweet, moist, orange-fleshed variety of sweet potato. To everyone else in the world, a yam is what Americans call a tropical yam , a firm tuber with white flesh. Varieties of American "yams" (sweet potatoes) include the garnet yam (pictured at left) and the jewel yam.
Also known as
- Yam
- Tropical yam
- Garnet yam
- Jewel yam
Substitutes
sweet potatoes (drier, less sweet, and often more expensive)
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