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Maple Mashed Sweet Potatoes

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Yield
4 to 6 servings
Category
Vegetables
Course
Side Dishes
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Plain baked sweet potatoes are great; this way of preparing them is sublime. Serve with turkey or chicken dishes, along with cold applesauce or cranberry sauce!

Ingredients
4 medium-size sweet potatoes
3/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons maple syrup
juice of 1/2 lemon
salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
ground cinnamon, nutmeg, or herbs, for garnish
Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Pierce the sweet potatoes two or three times with a fork. Arrange them on a baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until the flesh is tender. Slit the skin to let the steam escape.

Heat the milk, butter, and maple syrup in a large skillet or saute pan; do not boil. Scoop the sweet potato flesh into the same pan, then mash mixture together with a potato masher. Mash in the lemon juice and salt and pepper, to taste; the texture should be slightly lumpy but still mashed. Serve right from the pan or transfer to a serving dish. Dust the top with cinnamon or nutmeg, and serve at once.

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Anne (not verified)

1 year 2 months ago

Maple flavored Sweet Potato's are the best ~ thanks for the recipe ~ : )

Sweet Potatos: The South American natives called the plant batatas. This word eventually became patata in Spanish, patae in French and potato in English. Since the introduction of sweet potato into Europe is thought to have preceded that of Irish potato (another native of South America), the word “potato” was originally a reference to sweet potato and not Irish potato.

Sweet potato probably first migrated from South America in a westerly direction given the fact it has been carbon-dated in the Cook Islands to 1000 A.D. and was grown in Polynesia before the Age of Discovery. Early Polynesians who traveled to South America and back are credited with its introduction to their homeland as well as to Hawaii and New Zealand.

Columbus undoubted encountered sweet potato in his early voyages to the West Indies but it was not until his fourth voyage (to Yucatan and Honduras) that he recorded its discovery in his journals. He is credited with its introduction to the New World (Spain) in about 1500 and a number of different types were cultivated there by the mid-1600s. It was very slow to spread to more northern regions of Europe because of its affinity to warm temperatures.

Sweet potato was grown in what is now Virginia as early as 1648.

Pam (not verified)

5 years 2 months ago

For those of us who eat KETO, it would be very helpful if you would give the calories, carbs, fat, sugar, etc. content of your recipes. It would be very helpful if they were given no matter what diet you eat. By the way, I am going to be trying this recipe. It sounds delicious.