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Published March 11, 2015 | Last Updated August 22, 2022 By Barbara Bianchi 13 Comments

Sweet Potato Noodles with “Cream” Sauce

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Sweet potato noodles are an easy delicious side dish to make with your spiralizer.

Sweet Potato Noodles with "Cream" Sauce

The winter has been so long and cold here in New York that some days I’d rather curl up on the couch with a hot bowl of soup than venture outside.

But this week the weather has been warming up ever so slightly (the mounds of snow in my front yard have melted just a little to show off a sliver of grass), so I decided to head to the little family-run farm down the road from my house (that I mentioned in this post) to pick up some fresh vegetables.

I returned home with beautiful red peppers, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, and asparagus. Just the ingredients I needed for spiralized sweet potatoes in a creamy sauce!

I made this dish with my dairy-free friends in mind. You’d never guess it from tasting it, but this luscious sauce doesn’t have a trace of cream or butter.

You probably know by now how much I love my Paderno World Cuisine 4-Blade Spiralizer and how obsessed I am with turning zucchini into noodle-like ribbon strands. I’ve whipped up zoodles and meatballs, zoodles with Bolognese sauce, zoodles with clam sauce, and zoodles with pesto.

But I had yet to try the Paderno with other vegetables. So when I found these sweet potatoes at the farm I knew I had to spiralize them.

They were absolutely fantastic as noodles and a breeze to slice with the Paderno. You could also try using a vegetable peeler although that might take a bit longer.

how to spiralize sweet potatoes

If you’re using a spiralizer like the Paderno, make sure to buy fat potatoes that are relatively straight. Trim the end of each potato flat in order to secure a firm hold onto the sharp prongs. Make sure to keep the potato centered in the unit. This will turn out wonderfully long spirals each time.

Spiralized sweet potatoes in a strainer

If zucchini noodles are called zoodles, maybe potato noodles should be called poodles! Or po-toodles! Or because they’re sweet potatoes, swoodles!

Sweet Potato Noodles with "Cream" Sauce

Instructions

*Free printable recipe card is available at the end of the post.

The special ingredient in this gorgeous cream sauce is a roasted red pepper. Cut off four sides of a red pepper, removing the seeds and pith. Then place the slices skin side up on a baking pan and broil for ten minutes. Afterwards, place the broiled pepper slices in a mason jar and seal for twenty minutes.

In the meantime, spiralize one and a half of your sweet potatoes into noodles. Rinse the spirals and set them aside.

Take the potato half that you have left and cut it into chunks. Then steam these chunks until they are just soft enough to be pierced with a fork.

Toss the chunks into your blender or food processor (I used my Vitamix). Next, add in the coconut milk, basil, garlic, and salt.

For the coconut milk, I recommend Native Forest that is certified gluten-free and canned with non-BPA packaging. Usually, I use their “classic” can, but my supermarket was only carrying the “light” variety this week. I tried making the sauce with the “light” version, and it turned out beautifully.

can of coconut milk

Now the pepper slices in the mason jar should be cooled enough to handle. Peel the skin off of each slice before adding the slices to your blender. Blend until all of the ingredients are oh-so creamy.

Finally, sauté asparagus and mushrooms in coconut oil for 5 minutes. (If you would like more tender asparagus, you may want to sauté the asparagus for 2 extra minutes before adding the mushrooms).

Toss in the sweet potato noodles and sauté with the asparagus and mushroom until they are slightly tender. This takes just two minutes. Pour in the creamy sauce and stir well. Cover the pan and continue cooking for 2 more minutes.

This will fill your kitchen with the sweetest, most intoxicatingly heavenly fragrance!

Sweet Potato Noodles with "Cream" Sauce

This healthy gluten-free, paleo, vegetarian, dairy-free dish is an absolute treat for lunch or as a vegetable side dish at dinner or even as the main course.

Sweet potatoes are incredibly nutritious containing iron, magnesium, and potassium, as well as Vitamins B6, C, and D. Our bodies are usually low on Vitamin D during the wintertime when we may not get enough sunlight. 

Sweet potatoes are an excellent way to boost our Vitamin D intake, and this lovely sweet potato dish is the perfect way to add them into your diet. Enjoy!

Love sweet potatoes? Try these recipes

Sweet Potato Pie: In this recipe, I show you how to make this scrumptious dish two ways: in a pie shell or without the crust as a creamy pudding.

Rosemary Sweet Potatoes And Mushrooms: These are healthy and easy to make. And the taste is utterly addictive!

Parmesan Baked Sweet Potatoes – These sweet potatoes are roasted in lots of butter with a hint of garlic and parmesan cheese that forms an out-of-this-world delicious parmesan crust on top. We’ve dubbed these candy potatoes. Yum.

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Sweet Potato Noodles with "Cream" Sauce

Spiralized sweet potato gluten-free, paleo, vegetarian, dish is dairy-free too with luscious sauce that doesn't have a trace of cream or butter.
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword dairy-free creamy sauce, sprializer, sweet potatoes
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 237kcal
Author Barbara Bianchi

Equipment

Vitamix

Ingredients

  • For sauce:
  • 1 red pepper washed
  • 1/2 large sweet potato peeled and cut in chunks
  • 1 cup coconut milk
  • 1 clove garlic sliced
  • 1 teaspoon basil
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • For vegetable sauté:
  • 1 1/2 sweet potatoes
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil
  • 1 cup asparagus washed and chopped
  • ½ cup mushrooms washed and sliced

Instructions

  • Begin by roasting your pepper. Cut 4 sides off of the pepper removing seeds and pith. Place skin side up on a baking pan and broil for 10 minutes. Then transfer roasted pepper to a mason jar and seal for 20 minutes.
  • Meanwhile cut one potato and half of the other with your spiralizer. Rinse and set aside.
  • Steam the remaining potato half that has been cut into chunks until just soft enough to be pierced with a fork.
  • Transfer to your blender or food processor.
  • Add coconut milk, basil, garlic, and salt.
  • Now your peppers should be cooled enough to handle. Peel the skin off of each slice and discard the skins.
  • Add the roasted pepper slices to your blender and blend until creamy.
  • Next, sauté asparagus and mushrooms in coconut oil for 5 minutes. (If you would like more tender asparagus, you may want to sauté the asparagus first for 2 extra minutes before adding the mushrooms).
  • Now add the spiraled sweet potatoes and sauté until slightly tender, about 2 minutes.
  • Add creamy sauce and toss well.
  • Cover the pan and continue cooking for 2 more minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 237kcal
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Comments

  1. Alana says

    March 11, 2015 at 6:26 pm

    Pinned! We bought a spiralizer about two weeks ago. I wonder if this would work with almond milk. I’m on Weight Watchers, and the coconut milk (unless I can find light) has way too many points. Or maybe could mix in some almond milk….it’s worth pondering, because we do make sauces with roasted red peppers, and the recipe sounds heavenly.

    Reply
    • Barbara says

      March 25, 2015 at 11:43 pm

      Oh, I’m so glad that you got a spiralizer!
      Yes, you can definitely use almond milk. My daughter has had an allergic reaction to almonds so I shy away from almond milk and almond flour, but you can go ahead with the almond milk. Let me know how you like it after you make it.
      Thanks for pinning 🙂

      Reply
  2. Amy says

    March 11, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    5 stars
    Oh my, this dish just looks lovely! And I’m going to have to check out that spiralizer! I think kids might eat nearly anything that is cut into fun spirals that those!

    Reply
    • Barbara says

      March 25, 2015 at 11:48 pm

      Sure, the spiralizer is terrific. I’m having a lot of fun with it.

      Reply
  3. K. Lee Banks says

    March 11, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    That looks delicious! I’ll have to share this with my daughter who needs GF recipes. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Barbara says

      March 25, 2015 at 11:50 pm

      You’re welcome. The sauce is out of this world. 🙂

      Reply
  4. vegetarianmamma (Cindy) says

    March 20, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    This looks really good! Thanks for sharing!

    -Cindy

    Reply
    • Barbara says

      March 25, 2015 at 11:52 pm

      It is good. Thanks, Cindy.

      Reply
  5. Kyra says

    March 25, 2015 at 10:06 am

    That is so creative, make sweet potato noodles! Definitely going to try this out with my spiralizer. I’ve been trying to think of paleo alternatives to pasta, and this is just perfect 😀 pinning this recipe!

    Reply
    • Barbara says

      March 25, 2015 at 11:51 pm

      Excellent! And thank you for pinning.

      Reply
  6. Hannah says

    March 26, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    The spiralizer looks like an excellent way to get children to eat more vegetables instead of just pasta. What a healthy recipe!

    Reply
    • Barbara says

      March 29, 2015 at 12:35 am

      You’re right, Hannah. I’ve also been making baked curly “fries” with the spiralizer and kids love them.

      Reply

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