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Yukon Gold and Sweet Potato Mash
Now I know some people are convinced that no holiday table is complete without a concoction that includes sweet potatoes and marshmallows. Maybe someone can explain that one to me–I just never bought it. (Are you in the marshmallows on your yams camp? Please comment, try to convince me!)
I also never quite understood why so many a feast requires both mashed potatoes and a sweet potato dish. Although I often oblige, it seems so superfluous. So here’s a great idea: Combine the two by adding sweet potatoes to the mashed potatoes. This gives a nutrient boost and a punch of flavor to regular mashed potatoes, and will leave a little more room for pumpkin pie!
INGREDIENTS
1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 1/2-inch chunks
1 pound sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 1/2-inch chunks
1/2 cup low-fat milk
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1. Place potatoes and sweet potatoes in a large saucepan and add enough water to cover. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook until very tender when pierced with a fork, 20 to 25 minutes.
2. Drain the potatoes, then mash them in the pot to the desired consistency. Place milk and butter in a small bowl and microwave on High until the butter is mostly melted and the milk is warm, 30 to 40 seconds. (Alternatively, place in a small saucepan and heat over medium until the milk is warm.) Stir the milk mixture, sugar, salt and pepper into the mashed potatoes until combined.
Yields 6 servings, about 2/3 cup each.
Nutrition per serving: 151 calories; 4 g fat (3 g saturated fat, 0g mono unsaturated fat); 11 mg cholesterol; 26 g carbohydrates; 3 g protein; 3 g fiber; 321 mg sodium; 369 mg potassium
Nutrition bonus: Vitamin A (190% daily value), Vitamin C (20% dv).
Exchanges: 2 starch, 1 fat.
Carbohydrate servings: 2.
Interested in a vegan mashed potato recipe? See Vegan Pink Mashed Potatoes with Ginger and Cardamom.
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add your comment »Siddiq, I have trouble imagining that your rural clan has a handy supply of marshmallows! Sweet potatoes or yams are indigenous to Africa, I understand, so you must know a variety of recipes for cooking them. Please share them with us! If you really want to experiment with marshmallows (which are a kind of candy), email me your address and I'll send you some.
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sweet potatoe pie is the best part it is desert with dinner not after. mashed buttered yams in a gram cracker crust with walnuts and lots of brown sugar and ciniminim with a marshmallow toping baked till the marshmallows are borwn. It is not realy a side dish it is a desert that you can eat at the meal and is far better then all the main dishes.
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No marshmallows! My mother has a wonderful recipe with julienned sweet potatoes (6-8), with half a pound of melted butter mixed with half a cup orange juice, 2 cups sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, and juice of half a lemon poured over it, and baked for 2 hours at 350 deg. and basted occasionally, yum! (We obv only have it once or twice a year because of the butter!)
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Love! I am a huge fan of both, but I never did think about why we have TWO potato dishes on the Tday menu. I prefer mashed, so why not fit them all in one? Great idea! :)
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I've never understood America's obsession with marshmallows either...
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My mom and I are the only ones who like sweet potatoes with brown sugar and marshmallows. Not one of my four kids, husband, dad or sister do. My husbands family does make what they call Louisianna Yam Casserole, which is pureed sweet potatoes with egg, cream, brown sugar and vanilla mixed and topped with a nutty streusel topping; and my kids like that one. Go figure!
Unfortunately white potates have a hold on my family and mashed sweet potatoes in place of them would never fly. Especially on Thanksgiving. I will make the dish above, because I like sweet potates and know how healthy they are, it just won't be on Thanksgiving.
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Siddiq A. Omer
Sudan.
Can not find suitable words towards such a fantastic presentation, thanks for this appropiate sweet as most of the rural communities over here in Africa have the INGREDIENTS
around by someway or another.
Thank you again onbehalf of thousands of poor-rural people..
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Once when I was a child, we had T-day dinner at friends' house and I got my first taste of sweet potatoes with marshmallows. I fell in love -- it was the best thing since chocolate milk!
My mom refused to make it at home. The next time I encountered it, as an adult, I found it sickeningly sweet.
So now I serve plain roasted organic sweet potatoes with my turkey. A little gravy, or butter for the truly decadent, and sweet potatoes are a real treat. There are so many great flavors in the meal -- stuffing, cranberry sauce, vegetables, salad, pie and of course the turkey -- that marshmallows seem de trop.
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