Help with sweet potato recipe!

ImThisBabysMom

My mom made really yummy sweet potatos, but she never got to show me how. She got too sick before she could. I know she used canned sweet potatos and brown sugar and marshmellows and baked it. Sound familiar to anyone?? Dad wants me to make some for thanksgiving. Thanks for any similar recipes you can give me.

Tambcat

nononono. The way to do this is w/ brown sugar and PECANS. Please hold for recipe....

Tambcat

3 cups baked and mashed sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup salted butter
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup evaporated milk


For the topping, mix well the following ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup self rising flour

then stir in:

1/3 cup salted butter
1 cup chopped pecans

Spread topping over sweet potato mixture and bake, uncovered, for 30
minutes at 350 degress, until browned on top.

 

Trust me on this!

photonbug

There is one on the can that sounds like that.

Tambcat

Sorry - now I feel like I was rude, and I can understand why you and your dad want your mom's traditional dish. It's just that there are few things in life I'm passionate about, and sweet potato souffle is one of them. lol. I don't have a recipe for the marshmallow one, but I'm sure there are plenty out there.

Lina1030

I never use a recipe....I have made it with the canned sweet potatoes but find it a tad bit too sweet. I have tried it with 1/2 canned and 1/2 fresh sweet potatoes and just sweet potatoes and I think I like the fresh the best.

I like to experiment....sometimes I do brown sugar and add some maple syrup....I add cinnamon and nutmeg and this last time I actually did not put the spices (since my sister requested it) and it came out good just used butter, brown sugar, oj, salt, milk (because I did not have heavy cream) and the marshmallows on top and it was great.

This is a recipe I found years back that I started with and then would build up on and do my own thing

5 tbsp unsalted butter

3 lbs sweet potatoes (or you can add 1/2 canned, drained and 1/2 boiled sp's)

kosher salt (just a sprinkle)

1/2 cup chopped pecans (you don't need to add nuts if you don't want to)

1/2 cup flavored liqeur (you don't have to add this...the recipe suggest kahlua, I never added that bc I did not have it...I had brandy or cognac hennessy and added maybe 1/4 cup)

1 cup heavy cream (but like I said in an emergency milk would work too)

3/4 cup dark brown sugar (although light brown sugar would be ok too)

1 bag (10.5 oz) mini marshmallows

Directions

Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Use 1 tablespoon of the butter to grease a 2 quart oven-proof baking dish.

Peel the sweet potatoes and slice them 1/8-inch thick. Place 1/3 of the potatoes in the bottom of the baking dish. Season with salt and sprinkle over 1/3 of the pecans. Repeat 2 more times. Pour the coffee liqueur and cream over the potatoes. Spread the brown sugar evenly over the top and dot with the remaining butter. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake until the sweet potatoes are tender when poked with a sharp knife, about 50 to 60 minutes. Remove the dish from the oven and turn on the broiler. Remove the foil and cover the sweet potatoes evenly with the marshmallows. Put the dish under the broiler until the marshmallows are lightly browned, about 1 minute. Let cool a bit before serving.

 

Ok...so I never did this...I just boil the potatoes...drain and mash them (but leave them sort of chunky....I spread them in the buttered baking dish, add the marshmallows on top and bake...watch out that the marshmallows don't burn...keep checking they just need to be golden brown...if you see they have the color you want cover with foil and continue to bake if you still need to finish the baking time.  Good luck.  btw...this is my favorite thing to eat at Thanksgiving...that and stuffing!

ImThisBabysMom

Sorry I hate pecans lol! It's an old family recipe but I don't know exactly how she made it.

ImThisBabysMom

MIL makes them, but they aren't as good. They are missing something. I'm trying to figure out what.

Tambcat

Maybe vanilla extract? Or brandy, like Lina mentioned? Maybe she doesn't do brown sugar?

ImThisBabysMom

I'll search moms kitchen and if I can't find it, because its an old recipe and she knew it by heart, ill look into the recipes you ladies have given me. Maybe do a test run before thanksgiving.

hass2001

My MIL makes amazing sweet potatoes. She buys them fresh and bakes them for about 30 minutes, whole (to get the skin off). Then once they are cool she takes the skin off (it peels really easily) and cuts them in half, long ways. She loads them with butter and brown sugar and pops them in the oven again for about 15 min.

My mom also makes yams (don't confuse with sweet potatoes because I did lol! Yams are orange). She peels them and cubes them into one inch pieces. Then bakes them, covered, with butter and marshmallows until soft. Super yummy!

AmyJoy728

I haven't tried a recipe with marshmellows yet, and I don't like pecans. But my recipe for sweet potato mashed is to mash up cut up 3 lbs of sweet potatoes and boil until they fall apart if stabbed with a fork. Then I drain them and move to a mixing bowl, add in about 5 tbs of butter and mix. Then I add cinnamon and brown sugar until sweet but not quite pumpkin pie sweetness.

BigAppleBiggerBelly

AmyJoy728:

I haven't tried a recipe with marshmellows yet, and I don't like pecans. But my recipe for sweet potato mashed is to mash up cut up 3 lbs of sweet potatoes and boil until they fall apart if stabbed with a fork. Then I drain them and move to a mixing bowl, add in about 5 tbs of butter and mix. Then I add cinnamon and brown sugar until sweet but not quite pumpkin pie sweetness.

I completely misread this as "5 lbs" of butter and was horrified for a few moment!