Sweet Potato Bison (More Information)

This recipe won't take long to cook, which makes it a great choice for a fast meal but also means that it is possible to overcook this. To keep that from happening, it is important to know how long things will take to cook. For example, the sweet potatoes will take longer to cook than the bison. So this recipe calls for starting those first.

Starting the sweet potato first also allows for a chance to get some extra flavors in there. Instead of just frying the sweet potato this recipe suggests partially baking it first before frying it. This cooks the sweet potato in two different ways and thus gets a few extra flavors into the mix.

Once it is partially cooked, the sweet potato can then be cooked alongside the bison and the tomato – giving it more flavors and also allowing the bison to absorb some of the sweet potato flavor. Frying the sweet potato also allows for getting the potato chunks crunchier than normal, thus increasing the sweet flavor.

This recipe also tastes pretty good with beef instead of bison (pork works too). Instead of tomato juice, pineapple juice, orange juice and other fruit juices work. The fruit juice is all about making it fry more (more sugars mean that things will fry more), thus you won't get the same result with something like broth.

This recipe does taste good leftover. That's because of the extra flavor in the sweet potatoes and the fat from the tomatoes that create flavors that can survive a night in the fridge. So many foods start to lose taste after being chilled but these foods avoid that thus making it a good choice for leftovers.