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Best Sweet Potato Recipes
Sweet Potato Fries, Casseroles, Pie, and More!
Sweet Potato Fries, Casseroles, Pie, and More!
December 14, 2018
Here are some delicious sweet potato recipes, including sweet potato fries, biscuits, casseroles, and desserts. Sweet potatoes are versatile, nutritious, and low in calories, making for the perfect addition to any meal.
While cooking sweet potatoes, keep in mind: Sweet potatoes have a few varieties that are interchangeable in cooking, and they will retain their color if you cook them with a slice of lemon. Enjoy the recipes, and happy eating!
Best Sweet Potato Recipes
Sweet Potato Oven Fries with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
These guilt-free sweet potato fries are the perfect snack and taste like a restaurant-quality appetizer.
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Chai-Spiced Baked Sweet Potatoes
Classic glazed sweet potatoes have a new spin with chai spice, and they add new flavor to your traditional Thanksgiving meal. Other unique baked sweet potato recipes include orange-glazed sweet potatoes, baked sweet potatoes with apples, and apricot-glazed sweet potatoes.
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Sweet Potato Lentil Coconut Curry
This dish is hearty, warming, colorful, and so good! The recipe won second prize in The 2017 Old Farmer’s Almanac Recipe Contest.
Photo Credit: Becky Luigart-Stayner
Nothing can beat mashed sweet potatoes as a side dish, especially with the added garlic flavor. Take the extra step to turn these mashed sweet potatoes into sweet potato cakes if you’d like to change things up.
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Make a big batch of this souffle ahead of time and reheat it when you’re ready to eat. It will retain its delicious quality, and it makes for an easy vegetable in your dinner.
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If you love sweet potatoes and are always the first to grab a biscuit, you’ll be eating these sweet potato biscuits by the dozen!
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Sweet Potato Casseroles
Pecan-Crusted Sweet Potato Casserole
This dish is perfect for those who wish they could have dessert first, but still packs in all the great health benefits of sweet potatoes.
Photo Credit: Becky Luigart-Stayner
Sweet Potato and Sausage Casserole
A combination of sweet potatoes, sausage, apples, and cheese has never tasted so good. Skip the cheese and sausage pizza for this delicious sweet potato casserole.
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Sweet Potato and Pineapple Casserole
It might seem odd to put sweet potatoes and pineapples together in one recipe, but it’s perfect to satisfy your sweet tooth.
Photo Credit: Becky Luigart-Stayner
You can check out even more delicious casserole recipes here in case you’re not quite in the mood for sweet potatoes.
Sweet Potato Pie and Cake Recipes
This sweet potato pie recipe will help you to easily put together an old classic. Be sure to load up with whipped cream!
Pecan-Crust Sweet Potato Pound Cake
This tender and faintly spicy sweet potato cake from The Old Farmer’s Almanac Everyday Baking Cookbook is sure to please everyone at your dinner party, and we bet your kids won’t even guess that it’s a vegetable cake!
Photo Credit: Becky Luigart-Stayner
Which of these is your favorite sweet potato recipe? Tell us below!
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Yum Sweet Potatoes
My favorite sweet potato isn't even a recipe. Wrap in heavy foil and bake on a campfire.
Eating by the campfire with a little butter and cinnamon just enhances the flavor!
Thank you for the recipes above though. They will sure come in handy if the campfire gets rained out!
Sweet potato (aka Yam) pancakes!
Just found it on Paleo Hacks, can't wait to have it for suppers. Carameliziang the onions right now...
Sweet Potatoe recipes
Fried sweet potatoes in butter with sauteed onions. First bake, then peel and add to pan with sauteed onions and butter. Season with salt!! Yum. The cake the casserole and the biscuits here look like winners to!! The!!
Favourite Sweet Potato recipe
The recipe I love is not there - Gluten Free Pancakes made with Sweet Potatoes. Found it on the net somewhere, very fluffy.
Sweet Potato Pancakes
Those sound delicious! We do have a Sweet Potato and Celery Root Pancake recipe, but it’s not gluten free. Try experimenting with different types of flour, and maybe you can make a yummy gluten free version!