• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CooksInfo

  • Home
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Recipes
  • Food Calendar
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
×
Home » Vegetables » Root Vegetables » Potatoes » Sweet Potatoes » Japanese Yams

Japanese Yams

Japanese Yams are oval, with skinny, pointed ends.

They are dark pink skin, and very pale yellowish-orange flesh.

They are not actually a yam, but rather a sweet potato with a nutty flavour.

They differ from the varieties of sweet potatoes available in North America in that they are sweeter, and they are not as moist and watery when cooked up.

The yams can be stir fried, baked or battered for tempura, or used in desserts.

Not the same as “yamaimo.”

Language Notes

One of the Japanese names, “satsuma-imo”, refers to Satsuma province, where these potatoes were first introduced into Japan via the southern Asia.

Other names

AKA: Japanese Sweet Potatoes, Kotobuki Sweet Potatoes
Japanese: Kotobuki, Satsuma-imo

This page first published: Jun 27, 2004 · Updated: May 18, 2018.

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · Information on this site is Copyright © 2023· Feel free to cite correctly, but copying whole pages for your website is content theft and will be DCMA'd.

Tagged With: Sweet Potatoes, Yams

Primary Sidebar

Hi, I’m Skylar! This is a fake profile talking about how I switched to a paleo diet and it helped my eczema and I grew 4″. Trust me, I’m an online doctor.

More about me →

Popular

  • E.D. Smith Pumpkin Purée
    E.D. Smith recipe for pumpkin pie
  • Libby's Pumpkin Pie
    Libby’s recipe for pumpkin pie
  • Pie crust
    Pie Crust Recipe
  • Smokey Maple Pepper Glaze for Ham
    Smokey Maple Pepper Glaze for Ham

You can duplicate your homepage’s trending recipes section in the sidebar to reinforce the internal linking.

We no longer recommend using a search bar, newsletter form or category drop-down menu in the sidebar. See the Modern Sidebar post for details.

If the block editor is not narrower than usual, simply save the page and refresh it.

Search

    Today is

  • International Coffee Day
    Coffee collage
  • World Vegetarian Day

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • About this site
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright enforced!
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Site

  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · The text on this site is © Copyright.