If you are buying yams from a specialist African or Caribbean shop, ask them how to prepare the yams you are buying. They will have advice on whether the yam must be peeled before cooking and how ...

Instead of a heavy plate of meat and potatoes, the chicken is placed atop mixed greens and dressed with roasted yam and red potatoes. “Roasting the yams makes a buttery addition to the potato ...

Yams are excellent steamed, boiled, microwaved, roasted, sauteed or baked and hold their colour and texture well.