I always cut back on the sugar. There is so much natural sugar in the sweet potatoes that is intensified when you bake them. Add to that the brown sugar topping and it's a diabetic's heaven/hell. You can certainly play with the amount of sugar without seriously compromising the flavor.
My two-cents...been making this dish for 20 years!
I'm sure there are numerous variations of this recipe. Pioneer Woman's is very similar to the one my family makes every year for the holidays [Thanksgiving and Christmas]. It's delicious and is often a dessert option for family rather than a side dish. It's super yummy and always gets rave reviews. One recommendation--take the time to roast/bake your own sweet potatoes. Substituting the canned variety really ruins the dish.
Happy eating!
I love these...my mother made this exact recipe when I was growing up, and now I do it every year for Thanksgiving...I just melt the butter for the topping though...so yummy!!!
i'm making this recipe right now... have to say i must have done something wrong because it is taking waaaaay longer for the potatoes to be tender. i've upped the oven to 400 and wrapped the baking dishes they're roasting in with foil. maybe i was supposed to do that anyway! the kitchen sure smells good and i can't wait for the finished product.
Mmmmmm... I'm sitting here right now with a plate full of food, and these sweet potatoes are a wonderful addition to tonight's dinner! I don't usually care for them, but this recipe is absolutely delicious. Thanks for taking the time to add the photos and all. They were really helpful.
Making mine in a pie crust. Will send an update once it's eaten!
this sounds so good! but i'm addicted to my eggnog sweet potatos. my family adores them. i roast potatoes, mix in a cup of eggnog, a swig of bourbon and some allspice. they are SO good! i may try making some with these yummy nutty topping this year! thanks ree!
I make this recipe every year and my family would hurt me if I didn't. It was originally published in Jill Conner Browne's "God Save the Sweet Potato Queens" on page 217. She says that she sometimes adds coconut to the topping as well.
This recipe was passed along to my mother from a family friend (Margaret) and has become a regular part of the Thanksgiving repertoire at our house. The one thing that is ever so slightly different is that Margaret's recipe uses self-rising flour. It makes the topping puff just ever so slightly, which makes the texture of the topping just slightly crispy, and more consistent throughout, but also makes that crispy topping melt in your mouth the second it hits your tongue.
And yes, in the South, this is very much a "side dish"! Just because it has (a LOT) of sugar does not mean that it has to be a dessert and can't appear on a plate along side the turkey.
I make a very similar dish named after a lady from Alabama, Betty Haney.
In her/our version you boil and mash the sweet potatoes. In the best ones I've made the topping melted to a praline consistency. Her final touch was to put pecan halves all the way around the edge of the caserole which are added in the last twenty minutes or so. Thank you Betty!
oooh I used to make a dish very similar to these but have lost it in all the moves I have made over the years.....Thanks Pioneer Woman!!!...the only thing I see different is I used cinnamon in the potato part...This looks soooo down home southernly good. Great with the turkey, stuffing and veggies.....it adds sweetness to the plate...I am sooo overly excited to have this recipe...I can't wait to make it...(even tho it will be Tues not Thurs...ppl are sick 365..so nurses have to work). This will make enough to take to work to share!!! I tried the sinnfully mashed potatos already...OMG!!! they are to die for. Thank goodness they work off all those calories working hard on that ranch. I would rather put in a few..ok..a lot of extra exercise instead of depriving myself of the good stuff!!
Hey Pioneer ......think i could sub crushed gingersnaps for the pecans >
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