The Big Bib: Sweet Potato Casserole
The Big Bib: Sweet Potato Casserole
Sweet potato casserole isn’t a menu item you often think of making for a barbecue, but when a BBQ joint does it right, It’s what sweet potato lovers clamor for. This recipe will serve a dozen folks, but it you’re like me, and you often go for a heaping spoonful, it’s probably more like 8 servings.
I think this recipe is a great starter if you’re like me and have loved Sweet Potato Casserole for a long time, but have never attempted to make it. A couple of things I’ll try differently, is to use a gluten free flour substitute and I may try it without the pecans. There’s a lot of sugar in this recipe, so I may try to reduce or find a substitute, but none of that Stevia crap.
Full recipe available at Express News
Ingredients:
1) 2-3 medium size sweet potatoes
2) 1 1/2 Sticks or 3/4 C softened Butter
3) 1/2 C White Sugar
4) 2 Large Eggs (Beaten)
5) 1/2 tsp Salt
6) 1/2 C Whole Milk or Whipping Cream
7) 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
8) 1/2 C Brown Sugar
9) 1/3 C Flour
10) 4 tsp softened Butter
11) 1/2 C chopped pecans
Directions
Fire pit or preheat oven to 325*
Peel and cube #1 Sweet Potatoes to 1/2 in
Place Sweet Potatoes in a pot and submerge in water on high heat reduce to a simmer once water begins to boil.
Remove once you can easily poke it with a fork or toothpick. Drain and begin to mash it down.
Take a large bowl and mix in the mashed Sweet Potatoes from step 4 and add in ingredients #2 - #7, Butter, White Sugar, Eggs, Salt, Milk/Cream, Vanilla Extract.
Put contents in a baking pan or dish (9'“ X 13”) and cook for 15-20 minutes.
Take another bowl and create the toppings with ingredients #8 - #10, Brown Sugar, Flour, Butter.
Remove the casserole when you’re ready to apply the toppings.
Spread toppings over the pan. Be sure to apply evenly.
Spread #11 Pecans and dust with a little more Brown Sugar (1 Tbsp).
Drop it back in the pit/oven and cook for another 15-20 min.
Pull when you do the tooth pick test (i.e. insert toothpick and pull when it comes out clean)
Cool, then serve it up.