Best Smashed Sweet Potatoes Recipes

SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Scrub the potatoes, prick them several times with a knife or fork, and bake them for 1 hour or until very soft when pierced with a knife. Remove from the oven and scoop out the insides as soon as they are cool enough to handle. Place the sweet potato meat into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and add the orange juice, cream, butter, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, and pepper. Mix together until combined but not smooth and transfer to a baking dish.
• Bake the potatoes for 20 to 30 minutes, until heated through.

BOURBON PECAN SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Add sweet potatoes and cook 12 to 15 minutes until very tender. Drain sweet potatoes in a colander. Return pan to medium heat. Add butter to the pan. When butter melts, add nuts and toast for 2 minutes. Add sugar and let it bubble. Add bourbon and cook out alcohol, 1 minute. Add orange juice and the cooked sweet potatoes. Smash with a masher and season the sweet potatoes with nutmeg, salt and pepper.

SMASHED SWEET POTATOES WITH CARAMELIZED APPLES

Steps:

• Place a steamer insert into a saucepan and fill with water to just below the bottom of the steamer. Bring water to a boil. Add sweet potato, cover, and steam until soft, about 1 hour. Scoop the meat from the skin, transfer to a bowl, and smash using an electric mixer or wooden peg.
• Stir 1/4 cup brown sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon into smashed sweet potatoes; allow to cool.
• Stir cream, orange juice, 1/4 cup unsalted butter, salt, and pepper into smashed sweet potatoes; transfer to a baking dish.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Melt 3 tablespoons unsalted butter in a skillet over medium-high heat; cook and stir apples and 3 tablespoons brown sugar in the melted butter until lightly browned on both sides, 5 to 10 minutes. Spoon caramelized apples over smashed sweet potatoes.
• Bake in the preheated oven until heated through, about 20 minutes.

CHIPOTLE SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Place sweet potato in a small saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until tender. , Drain and return to the pan. Add milk, butter, chipotle pepper, salt and pepper; coarsely mash.

SMASHED SWEET POTATOES AND APPLES

Steps:

• Place potatoes and apples in a 6-qt. slow cooker. Add apple juice and beer. Cook, covered, on low 5-6 hours or until potatoes are tender., Drain; return to slow cooker. Add brown sugar, sour cream and butter. Mash potato mixture to reach desired consistency. If desired, top with minced chives.

FIERY HOT TEXAS T-BONES WITH CHIPOTLE SMASHED POTATOES AND HOT AND SWEET PEPPER SAUTE

Steps:

• Seed and slice the hot and sweet fresh peppers and reserve.
• Cover potatoes with water and bring to a boil. Add salt to boiling water. Cook potatoes until tender, 10-12 minutes. Chop and brown bacon in a small skillet and add a tablespoon of chipotle powder and onions. Cook 5 minutes over medium heat until onions are tender. When potatoes are tender, drain and return to hot pot. Add bacon mixture and sour cream to the potatoes. Smash potatoes and season with salt, to taste.
• While potatoes are working, combine dry spice rub: chili powder, remaining chipotle powder, cumin and grill seasoning. Rub steaks liberally on both sides with the mixture. Heat a 12 to14-inch skillet screaming hot. Add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 2 turns of the pan. It will smoke. Add steaks and do not turn for 6 minutes. Flip and cook another 6 minutes for medium rare, up to 10 minutes for well done. Remove skillet from flame and add bourbon. Return steaks to stove and flame the pan. When the fire goes out, transfer the meat to a large serving platter and pour pan juices over the top. Let meat rest for juices to redistribute. Return pan to heat and add remaining tablespoon vegetable oil to the skillet. Add hot and sweet peppers to the pan and saute them for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pile peppers alongside steaks.
• Remove meat from the T bones and cut into 4 portions. Top with some peppers and pile some chipotle smashers along side. Spoon drippings and juices over meat and serve.

GARLIC BUTTER SMASHED SWEET POTATOES WITH PARMESAN CHEESE

Steps:

• Pre-heat your oven to broil (or grill) settings to high heat. Trim off the ends of the sweet potatoes. Cut each sweet potato into quarters (or 1 1/2 - inch pieces).
• Boil Method: Place sweet potatoes in a large pot of salted water. Bring to the boil; cook, covered for 20 -25 minutes or until just fork-tender. Drain well.
• Roast Method: Bake sweet potato pieces for 25-30 minutes, or until they are fork tender. Allow to cool for about 5 minted, or until you can handle them without burning your hands
• Lightly grease a large baking sheet or tray with cooking oil spray. Arrange sweet potatoes onto the sheet and use a fork to LIGHTLY flatten each piece (they will be soft, so try not to press too hard or they will end up breaking and mashed).
• Mix together the butter, garlic and parsley. Pour the mixture over each sweet potato. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and lightly spray with olive oil spray.
• Broil (or grill) until they are golden and crispy (about 15 minutes). Remove from oven, sprinkle over the parmesan cheese and return to the oven until the cheese is melted.
• Season with a little extra salt and parsley, and serve immediately.

SMASHED SWEET POTATOES WITH APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°.
• Scrub potatoes, then prick several times with a knife or fork.
• Bake 1 hour, or until very soft when pierced with a knife.
• Combine orange juice, cream, butter, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, and pepper.
• Remove potatoes from oven.
• Once cooled, scoop out the insides with a spoon.
• Place 1/2 of sweet potato meat into the bowl of an electric mixer.
• Add 1/2 of juice-and-cream mixture, blend until combined but not smooth, and pour into a large baking dish.
• Repeat with remaining potatoes and juice-and-cream mixture, and add to baking dish.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add apple wedges and brown sugar; cook about 10 minutes, turning apples occasionally, until lightly browned on both sides.
• Place on top of sweet potatoes and bake 30 minutes, until heated through.
• (Note: If refrigerating before baking, cook 45 minutes, or until heated through.).

BOURBON PECAN SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Bring a medium pot of water to a boil.
• Add sweet potatoes and cook 12 to 15 minutes until very tender.
• Drain sweet potatoes in a colander. Return pan to medium heat.
• Add butter to the pan. When butter melts, add nuts and toast for 2 minutes.
• Add sugar and let it bubble.
• Add bourbon and cook out alcohol, about 1 minute.
• Add orange juice and the cooked sweet potatoes. Smash with a masher and season the sweet potatoes with nutmeg, salt and pepper.

CHIPOTLE SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• In 4-quart Dutch oven, place sweet potatoes and enough water to cover; add 1 teaspoon salt. Heat to boiling over high heat; reduce heat to medium. Cook 10 to 15 minutes or until tender. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup water.
• Return potatoes to Dutch oven. Add butter, chipotle peppers and whipping cream; mash with potato masher, adding reserved water, a little at a time, until potatoes are desired consistency. Season with salt.

ALTON BROWN'S CHIPOTLE SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Put cubed potatoes into steamer basket and place steamer into a large pot of simmering water.
• Steam potatoes for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are fork tender.
• Add butter to potatoes and mash with potato masher.
• Add peppers, sauce, and salt and continue mashing to combine.
• Serve immediately.

SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Boil sweet potatoes until tender.
• Peel and mash until more or less lumpless. Add brown sugar, orange juice and zest, bourbon, butter or margarine, and pumpkin pie spice. Mix well. Spread in shallow dish (10 inch deep dish pie plate works well).
• Bake 30 minutes in a 350 degree F (175 degrees C) oven. Top with marshmallows and broil very briefly.

CHIPOTLE SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Put the sweet potatoes in a steamer basket and put the steamer in a large pot of simmering water that is 1 inch from the bottom of the basket. Cover and steam over medium-high heat for 20 minutes, or until the sweet potatoes are fork-tender.
• Remove the steamer basket, pour the water out of the pot and dump the sweet potatoes into the pot. Add the butter and salt and mash with a potato masher. Add the chile and sauce and continue mashing to combine. Serve immediately.

BOURBON PECAN SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Bring a medium pot of water to boil. Add sweet potatoes and cook 12 to 15 minutes until tender. Drain in a colander.
• Return pan to medium heat. Add butter to pan.
• When butter melts, add nuts and toast for 2 minutes.
• Add sugar and let it bubble.
• Add bourbon and cook out alcohol, 1 minute.
• Add orange juice and the cooked sweet potatoes.
• Smash with a masher and season the sweet potatoes with nutmeg, salt and pepper.

FOODCHICKIE'S CHIPOTLE SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• 1. Cut washed and peeled sweet potatoes into 1 1/2 to 2 inch pieces.
• 2. Place sweet potatoes in a steamer basket and put in stock pot with water 1 inch below steamer basket. Cover and Steam over medium-high heat for 20 minutes or until fork tender.
• 3. Take steamer basket with sweet potatoes out of stock pot and empty water.
• 4. Turn heat to low and dump sweet potatoes into stock pot and add butter.
• 5. Smash with potato masher slightly* then add chipotle pepper and adobo sauce and mix thoroughly with a spatula or wooden spoon. *Potatoes will be slightly lumpy, you don't want them smooth (unless you like your sweet potatoes that way). Be sure the chipotle is mixed in well as you don't want a mouthful of this pepper.

CHIPOTLE SMASHED SWEET POTATOES RECIPE - (4.6/5)

Steps:

• Put the sweet potatoes in a steamer basket and put the steamer in a large pot of simmering water that is 1 inch from the bottom of the basket. Cover and steam over medium-high heat for 20 minutes, or until the sweet potatoes are fork-tender. Remove the steamer basket, pour the water out of the pot and dump the sweet potatoes into the pot. Add the butter and salt and mash with a potato masher. Add the chile and sauce and continue mashing to combine. Serve immediately. Photographs by Yunhee Kim

CHIPOTLE SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• 1. Boil cubed potatoes until fork tender.
• 2. Add butter and mash just short of desired consistency.
• 3. Add chopped peppers, adobo sauce and salt and continue mashing to desired consistency.

SMASHED SALT-AND-VINEGAR SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Fill a large pot fitted with a steamer basket with enough water to come just below basket; bring to a boil. Add potatoes; reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook until fork-tender, about 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Divide potatoes between 2 rimmed baking sheets; lightly mash using a metal spatula. Drizzle with oil. Season with 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt, pepper to taste, and thyme. Slide potatoes around on sheet to coat bottoms with oil.
• Roast, rotating sheets once, until skins are golden and crisp, about 25 minutes. Transfer to a platter. Drizzle with vinegar, sprinkle with flaky salt, and serve.

CHIPOTLE SMASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• (1) Bring sweet potatoes and salted water to cover to a boil in a Dutch oven over high heat. Reduce heat to medium, and simmer 10 to 15 minutes or until tender. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup water. (2) Return potatoes to Dutch oven. Add butter, minced peppers, and cream; mash with a potato masher, adding reserved water, a little at a time, for desired consistency. Season with salt to taste. Trafer to a serving bowl.

SMASHED SWEET POTATOES WITH APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375. Scrub, prick, and bake potatoes until very soft, about 1 hr. Scoop out the insides and mix with next 8 ingredients. Pour into baking dish. Melt butter over med-high heat. Add apples and brown sugar and cook 5-10 minutes, until lightly browned. Place on top of potatoes. Bake 20-30 minutes, until heated through.