The dark orange flesh is sweet and rich, fine - textured and dry.
Used a mystery squash with
a dark orange flesh which I cut in half and roasted to take advantage of the oven already in use, doubled the lemon grass, used a quart of home made chicken stock from the freezer, and zipped up the whole thing with a hand blender right in the pot.
Not exact matches
More than 30 years ago,
dark - skinned sweet potatoes with sweet bright -
orange flesh were introduced into the U.S. To distinguish them from the more traditional tan - skinned variety of sweet potato with less - sweet light colored
flesh, the African word «nyami» referring to an edible root, was adopted in its English form «yam» and given to those
dark - skinned sweet potatoes.
Acorn squash is
dark green, with distinctive longitudinal ridges and sweet, yellow -
orange flesh.
Delicata squash has distinctive
dark green stripes on a yellow - cream skin and sweet,
orange - yellow
flesh.
What is referred to as a «yam» in the Unites States is the
darker reddish skinned,
orange fleshed sweet potato.