Atropellado de Coco (coconut and Sweet Potato Dessert)

Name: Atropellado de Coco (coconut and Sweet Potato Dessert)
Prep time: 9 min
Cook time: 21 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: to taste sweet potato; to taste sugar; to taste cinnamon; to taste water; to taste ground coconut

Traditional dish with sweet potato, sugar, cinnamon.

prep 9 min
cook 21 min
total 30 min
serves 4
intermediate

Ingredients

to taste sweet potato
to taste sugar
to taste cinnamon
to taste water
to taste ground coconut

Steps

Bake or steam sweet potato until soft.
Then mash it.
Combine sugar, cinnamon, and water over medium-low heat to make a syrup.
Combine the sweet potato mash and sugar syrup.
Mix in ground coconut until it forms a workable dough.
Form dough into balls or other shapes and serve.

Adapted from “Atropellado de coco (Coconut and Sweet Potato Dessert)”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.