EASY Mini Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe With Pecan Topping (2024)

FAQs

What are the best toppings for sweet potatoes? ›

Toppings for Sweet Potatoes: Butter, brown sugar, pecans, honey butter, cinnamon, marshmallows, salt and pepper.

Eggs and cream help stabilize the dish and prevent it from becoming too runny (a common complaint with many sweet potato casserole recipes). Make it as smooth or chunky as you like!

INGREDIENTS: Sweet Potatoes, Sugar, Water, Brown Sugar, Praline (sugar, pecans, butter cream, natural flavoring, corn syrup, salt), Liquid Margarine (soybean oil, water, vegetable mono & diglycerides, salt, natural flavor (includes milk), Vitamin A palmitate added, Vitamin D3).

Browning butter packs in tons of flavor, without dulling the sweet potatoes. Slow-roasting the sweet potatoes activates endogenous enzymes that bring out their natural sweetness. A touch of maple syrup, butter, and a bit of chopped thyme are the only embellishments these naturally sweet sweet potatoes need.

Sweetpotatoes tend to pair nicely with pork, pork chops and other pork dishes. This sheet pan pork chops and sweetpotatoes are a favorite! Whether you're looking for color to complement the plate, or a sweet, chewy texture for the pork chops to blend with, sweetpotatoes are a natural option.

A really good sweet potato casserole filling should be light and moist, not dense. If it's dense, then you may not have added an often overlooked ingredient—an egg. An egg adds lift, structure and volume and makes the filling more custard-like.

However, if you prefer a really thick sweet potato casserole, you can add about 2-3 tablespoons of flour to your sweet potato batter and this will help the mixture to thicken. This is an especially good idea if using fresh sweet potatoes.

Boil the sweet potatoes in a large stockpot until soft, about 25 minutes; drain. When cool enough to handle, peel the potatoes and transfer them to a large bowl. While the potatoes are still warm, add the butter, cream, agave, cinnamon and salt, and mash until smooth. Sprinkle with the orange zest.

Unlike the flesh of sweet potatoes that range from deep yellow to orange, golden sweet potato is lighter in color and a tad more mild in flavor. It is a great choice for chefs who want the texture and versatility of a sweet potato but with a Latin spin on it, or a starchy side option that is just slightly less sweet.

Why is my sweet potato casserole soupy? ›

Sweet potato casserole can get soupy for several reasons. For example, it's possible that your sweet potatoes have absorbed too much water while boiling. To prevent this from happening, don't overcook the sweet potatoes and drain them as soon as they are fork tender.

You guys, the strange thing about this sweet potato casserole is that it is very much a dessert, but never once in my Thanksgiving career have I experienced this being served as anything other than a completely luscious side dish to accompany the mashed potatoes and gravy, turkey, green bean casserole, and soft white ...

Sweet potato greens are the edible leaves of the sweet potato vine. Though widely eaten throughout Asia & Africa, they are less well known to most of us in the U.S. The good news is they're edible and delicious, high in Vitamin C and B6, and they thrive in the summer heat, unlike all the other leafy greens we crave.

Root crops such as beets and parsnips work well with Sweet potatoes. Lemon balm attracts parasitic wasps and hoverflies and can help manage all the worms affecting Sweet potatoes. Summer savory helps to confuse and repel the Sweet potato weevil. It is good to attract honey bees too.