Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Apple and Sweet Potato Towers

Apple and Sweet Potato Towers. Grow the best sweet potatoes in this raised garden tower that you can make yourself! It's a great way to grow loads of sweet potatoes for fall harvest. An experiment to grow potatoes in a 'tower' and under cover to improve yields, lengthen the season and avoid blight.

Yesterday I headed out the the garden with high expectations of harvesting a bumper crop of potatoes from our three potato towers {I'm saving the ones we having growing in the compost pile for this. The only problem is: they don't work. Let's explore where this idea came Potato towers don't work. You can cook Apple and Sweet Potato Towers using 10 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Apple and Sweet Potato Towers

1. Prepare of sweet potatoes.
2. You need of apples (Golden Delicious).
3. Prepare of nutmeg.
4. It's of cinnamon.
5. You need of brown sugar.
6. Prepare of butter.
7. It's of corn flour.
8. You need of plain digestive biscuits.
9. You need of zest of 1 lemon.
10. You need of unsweetened Greek yogurt.

They never did and they probably never will. Sweet potatoes can have longer vines and more foliage area, but if you don't let it spread out to catch sunlight or trellis it in. Great for small gardens, but do they really work? Potato towers are a hot topic, probably because a lot of people have smaller backyards and they want to produce as much food as they can.

Apple and Sweet Potato Towers instructions

1. Wash, peel and chop sweet potatoes into 1 inch chunks.
2. Place into a mixing bowl and add 2 tablespoons of water.
3. Microwave on high for roughly 4 minutes.
4. Peel and core apples, chop into 1 inch chunks.
5. combine apples, sugar, butter, cinnamon and nutmeg in a mixing bowl making sure to cover all of the apples.
6. Tip apples into bowl with sweet potatoes and mix together.
7. Microwave for 15 minutes on high (stir every 5 minutes) until apples and sweet potatoes are soft but not falling apart.
8. Mix 1/2 teaspoon cornflour and 1 teaspoon water in a cup and stir in (this will help thicken the water in the bottom of he bowl).
9. Microwave once more for 2 minutes on high, then leave to cool down slightly..
10. Crush biscuits into fine crumbs.
11. In a bowl mix Greek yogurt and lemon zest together.
12. Using a 3 inch ring (best to use the plate your serving on) - first biscuit as a base then sweet potato & apple and finally top with the yogurt & lemon zest. Pack the tower tightly so when you remove the ring it wont collapse..
13. Sprinkle a little cinnamon on top.
14. Serve ASAP as the yogurt does tend to begin to run down the side as it warms up..

Sweet potatoes, spices and apples are baked with a sweet pecan crumb topping. Excellent, IF you tweak a bit. The combination of sweet potatoes and apples is sublime. Golden Delicious is the best type to use since it's texture and firmness is similar to the Sweet Potato. Bake the apples and sweet potatoes until soft.