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

  1. Fire pit or preheat oven to 325*

  2. Peel and cube #1 Sweet Potatoes to 1/2 in

  3. Place Sweet Potatoes in a pot and submerge in water on high heat reduce to a simmer once water begins to boil.

  4. Remove once you can easily poke it with a fork or toothpick. Drain and begin to mash it down.

  5. 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.

  6. Put contents in a baking pan or dish (9'“ X 13”) and cook for 15-20 minutes.

  7. Take another bowl and create the toppings with ingredients #8 - #10, Brown Sugar, Flour, Butter.

  8. Remove the casserole when you’re ready to apply the toppings.

  9. Spread toppings over the pan. Be sure to apply evenly.

  10. Spread #11 Pecans and dust with a little more Brown Sugar (1 Tbsp).

  11. Drop it back in the pit/oven and cook for another 15-20 min.

  12. Pull when you do the tooth pick test (i.e. insert toothpick and pull when it comes out clean)

  13. Cool, then serve it up.

Let us know how it turned out in the comments below.

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