There is a food truck near where I work that serves one kind of vegetarian taco, chicken tacos, and the occasional fish taco. The vegetarian taco is a combination I never thought of, but is soo darn good! Sweet potato tacos.
I have some friends who've never had sweet potatoes before & family (sweet potatoes don't exist in their country). It's hard for me to imagine that sweet potatoes don't exist in some places, like France. I made a sweet potato dish one night for dinner when living with my French family. One glance and they were disgusted (I would have been too, because all I could get was a mailed canned version from my madre)... but they had thirds and tried to have fourths and realized that they needed to apologize for making such faces before trying the amazing sweet potato.
Back to the taco:
It's simple and delicious. Sliced sweet potato with pico de gallo and guacamole. I like to put the sliced sweet potato on the griddle and make some 'grill' marks on them with olive oil. Sometimes I'm lazy and buy pre-made guacamole and always add some chopped tomatoes, cilantro, and lime juice in it. I like to make my own pico de gallo (its only chopped tomatoes, red onion, and cilantro) for this because store bought salsa just doesn't cut it with the sweet potatoes. Sometimes I add a little bit of Chipotle Ranch on the tortilla... just sometimes, it gives a little extra flavor.
And now I've shared with you the sweet potato tacos I mention on Twitter (I'm @rachellelucero) and make whenever possible because it's been adopted into my Mexican food menu.
Now... if only I can find a place that makes sopapillas! Anyone know of one in PHL? I'm jealous whenever Jackalopekid mentions he's eating sopapillas!!!
