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From the Kitchen: Mashed Batata 🍠

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From the Kitchen: Mashed Batata 🍠

Making simple vegan mashed potatoes, with Puerto Rican flavor.

Alicia Kennedy
Oct 7, 2022
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From the Kitchen: Mashed Batata 🍠

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You can Google “batata recetas” and they will all show pictures of the orange variety, the kind many of us in the U.S. associate with sweet potato fries and served topped with marshmallows on Thanksgiving. In Puerto Rico, though, we get a red-skinned version with a white interior: hyper-starchy and dry, not naturally sweet. Yet it is called batata, bata…

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