How do you cook sweet potatoes?

Question

I hate them normally. But recently someone served a recipe for baked mashed sweet potatoes topped with a crunchy pecan-streusel topping that was absolutely killer. Ever heard of it?

Answer 1

Sweet Potato Fluff

3 cups mashed cooked sweet potatoes (8-10 fresh or two large cans)
½ cup sugar
¼ cup melted butter
1 (5 oz.) can evaporated milk
¼ tsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg (optional; include if you want a stiffer consistency)
Dash of each: cinnamon, nutmeg, dry orange peel

Topping:
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup chopped pecans
½ cup flour
2 Tbsp. butter

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Combine topping ingredients w/ a fork until crumbly; set aside.

Beat potatoes well with a mixer until fluffy. Stop and remove any strings from the beater at least twice. Stir in remaining ingredients and pour into a greased casserole dish.

Sprinkle topping on potatoes and bake for 40 minutes.

Serves 8.
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If you use fresh SP's, wash, poke w/ fork, and nuke for 12-13 minutes for 3-4 large ones. Squeeze adn you will feel if they are done. Let coll enough to handle them (or hold them w/ a pot-holder) and scoop flesh out into mixing bowl.

Answer 2

This is the recipe on the back of the Bruce's Yams can. It's the best recipe I've tasted. No one's beat it yet! Enjoy!

Bruce's® Quick Candied Yams

1 40-oz. can Bruce's® Yams
½ cup Butter
1 cup White or Brown Sugar
1 cup Syrup from can


Place Yams in a shallow baking dish. Combine syrup from can, sugar and butter in saucepan, stirring to boil to thicken. Pour sauce over Yams. Bake in 350° oven for 20 to 30 minutes, basting frequently.

*Vary the above recipe with these taste-tempting garnishes:

Sprinkle lightly with ground cinnamon and/or nutmeg.
Place a few slices from a whole orange on Yams in dish and add 3 Tbls. Orange juice to liquid before basting.
Place a small sprinkling of crushed pineapple on Yams in dish and add 3 Tbls. Pineapple juice to liquid before basting.

Answer 3

peel them, cut them into chunks,boil them until they can be broken by putting a fork thru the chunks, drain them, put in a small amount of milk, a half stick of butter, salt,pepper, brown sugar and using a hand mixer whip them until they are smooth.

In another pan- a stick of butter, crushed pecans, salt and pepper- saute(fry) them- when the aroma of nuts is present add some brown sugar

this mixture goes on top of the sweet [otatoes in the serving dish

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Exactly like other potatoes. Peel them, wash them then you can cut or slice them and fry them (like french fries or potato chips), mash them with butter and milk (use extra milk as they can be quite stodgy), quarter or dice them and put them in the roasting pan with your meat; you can candy (carmelize) them on the stove with butter and brown sugar (you must parboil them first), you can use them in desserts (sweet potato pie). Really one of the more versatile foods out there.

Answer 6

No, but I bake my sweet spuds in the m/w. so can you. start w/5 min for av. size s/p, and if not done m/w a little more. Let cool, dig insides out. that's it.
Or peel them before hand and m/w 4-5 min/ spud peeled.

Answer 7

boil, chop in half bit of salt pepper and seasoning in the oven 10 mins take out scoop out middle leave skins to one side. mix middle with vegteable stock cube and some cheese back in the skins in the oven 10 mins more hey presto!!!

Answer 8

i wrap each one in aluminum foil and bake them for a while... then when they are done i put butter and brown sugar inside. its delicious. try www.allrecipes.com sweet potato caserole is heavenly too....

Answer 9

sounds awesome,if you are mashing them do it like you would regular potatoes,peel boil mash

Answer 10

http://missourifamilies.org/features/nutritionarticles/nut72.htm

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/319/Sweet_SweetPotatoes229.shtml

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Holiday-Cooking/Thanksgiving/Sweet-PotatoesYams/Main.aspx

Here are a few websites that are great and very informative! Have a great Thanksgiving!