Edible Vegetable Arrangement: Slicing Sweet Potato

Video Transcript

"Next we are going to slice our sweet potato. For the sweet potato because it has sort of a dirty outside, we are going to peel that. There is nothing, it doesn't have any special pretty color on the outside so we want to peel off that outer skin before we slice. Okay, once it is peel, again you want to find a spot to flatten the bottom where you are going to be laying it down. You can cut the sweet potato this way, it is a little more difficult, and get a long petal. Or you can cut it this way again and get smaller, round petals. Sweet potato can be a lot drier and more brittle. It depends on the sweet potato. You may have to cut extra petals. You can see here that this is a lot stiffer than our radish and our purple top turnip were. So you want to cut, slice it as thinly as possible. And you can slice this in a food processor. You can use a mandolin or some other slicing attachment. "