Roasted sweet potato drink

 

  Did you know you can drink your sweet potatoes, too?  With a bit of processing, sweet potatoes can be made into a tasty locally grown hot drink.
  While any size sweet potato can be used, we use the very smallest ones that we might otherwise just consider goat food.
  First, we scrub and wash the potatoes really well.  There is no need to peel them, but we make sure they're clean.
  Next, we grate them by putting them through the grater on our food processor.
  Then we dehydrate them.  To make it worthwhile to run the dehydrator we often do large batches at a time.  We dry them until they are fully dry and brittle.
  Then we spread them thin on a cookie sheet and roast in the oven.  How long to roast depends on preference.  You can go for a light roast, a dark roast, or not roast them at all.  Just don't burn them.
  We then store the dehydrated pieces sealed in quart jars.
  To brew the roasted sweet potato drink, we boil water in a small pot.  We very coarsely grind the sweet potatoes pieces in our coffee grinder or use a mortar and pestle.  We add about 1 tablespoon per pint of boiled water and let steep about 5 minutes.  Then we strain it through a small mesh sieve and it is ready to drink.  We especially enjoy it with cream and honey.