By Honorary Reporter Cintia Mancilla from Argentina

Photo = Cintia Mancilla 

The sweet potato, or goguma in Korean, is a vegetable loved in Korea and usable in many recipes.

This health food is highly nutritious with many vitamins and minerals beneficial to human health. It also provides sugar in a natural way good for the body.

I have often seen this vegetable in K-dramas and shows being eaten in a variety of forms. Winter is when gun-goguma (roasted sweet potato) is often found at street food stalls.

Gun-goguma is cooked in a drum can while jasaek-goguma is said to have a dryer, denser and richer taste. (Cintia Mancilla)

Many K-dramas show characters eating this street snack in a city or cooking it over a campfire. Because the food is served nice and hot, they blow on it to cool it off.

The sweet potato is also used as an ingredient in popular beverages, with goguma latte being one example. This drink can be made at home without much fuss using a sweet potato type with a purple interior called jasaek-goguma, which is commonly found in desserts because of its color and sweetness. 

In my case, I used a sweet potato with a yellowish beige flesh sweet, which is similar to a Korean variety called bam (chestnut) goguma.

The following is my step-by-step recipe for goguma latte.

This is an illustrated recipe for goguma latte. (Cintia Mancilla)

1) Whip cold milk (the froth is better cold) with whatever is available at home like a French press, frothing wand, hand mixer or manual whisk.

2) Continue to whip the froth until tiny bubbles appear on the surface (this takes three to five minutes).

3) In a microwave-safe container, heat the milk for a minute then repeat in ten-second intervals until it gets warm. Be careful not to overheat it.

4) Add cream to the goguma latte.

For those who lack a microwave oven, heat the milk in a pan at low heat until it warms. Or one can directly whisk the froth while heating it over the stove, though caution is urged.

Enjoy a cup of goguma latte this winter. (Cintia Mancilla)

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