Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sweet potato casserole. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bring to a boil over high heat, then lower the heat to a simmer and cook until the potatoes. A delicious mashed sweet potato casserole with a crunchy pecan topping. A great sweet potato casserole recipe – my children insist on this every holiday!
Sweet Potato Casserole is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Sweet Potato Casserole is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet potato casserole using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Potato Casserole:
- Take 4 large sweet potatoes or 5 medium
- Take 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- Take 1/2 cup milk
- Prepare 1/2-3/4 cup brown sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- Get 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
- Take 2 large eggs, beaten
- Take Pinch salt
- Take Optional Topping :
- Get Mini Marshmallows
- Prepare or
- Make ready Crunchy Pecan Struesel :
- Take 1 cup chopped pecans
- Take 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Get 1/3 cup all purpose flour
- Get 1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
My sweet potatoes with a streusel topping is a. Chipotle Scalloped Sweet Potatoes with Spiced Pecans. Your holiday sweet potatoes won't be ho-hum when you serve them this way. This easy Sweet Potato Casserole topped with pecans and marshmallows is a traditional side at our family Thanksgiving table.
Steps to make Sweet Potato Casserole:
- Start by roasting the sweet potatoes in a 400°F oven until they are tender. Set them aside until they are cooled enough for you to handle them. Or you could also cook them in the slow cooker. Just wash them, place them in the slow cooker and cook on low heat for 6-7 hours, until they can be easily pierced with a fork.
- Once the potatoes are cooled a bit, preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 9x13" baking pan with foil (for easy cleanup) and grease it. Set it aside.
- Place the sweet potato flesh into a large bowl and mash well. Then add in the butter, milk, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and beaten eggs. Mix until it's all combined. Pour the sweet potato mixture into the prepared baking pan.
- For the struesel (if using), just combine all the ingredients in a bowl and stir it all together until it's all moistened and combined.
- If using the struesel, top with it and bake for 30 minutes. If topping with marshmallows, then bake for the 30 minutes, then place the marshmallows over the top and switch the oven to broil, just until the marshmallows begin to brown. Keep a close eye on them once the broiler is on so as not to burn them.
- To prepare this in advance, prepare everything through step 3, then cover the baking pan with foil and place in the fridge until ready to bake. Take the pan out of the fridge about 20 minutes before you're ready to place it in the oven, to bring it back closer to room temperature, then bake as directed.
This comforting dish unites tenderly mashed sweet potatoes, brown sugar and butter with a hint of cinnamon. It is all crowned with pillowy soft marshmallows and toasty pecans to create a sweet and savory masterpiece you will fall in love with! This sweet potato casserole is always going to be amazingly nutty and crunchy, but adding cornflakes cereal to the pecan-brown sugar topping gives the casserole extra crispiness. Each topping tastes beautifully toasty, and comes together in a medley of flavors all rolled into a single bite. The Cornflake, Pecan, and Marshmallow-Topped Sweet.
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