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Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe

No Thanksgiving is complete in my family without some overly sweet dessert-like sweet potatoes! This recipe is sure to delight everyone from the youngest to the oldest. The combination of brown sugar, butter, cloves, and ginger gives the sweet potatoes an almost nike ja 1 scratch decadent flavor. Tasting Guidelines: Taste is very sweet. Weight is medium. Texture is soft. Good for people with low to moderate treatment side effects. Emotional response of a delicious holiday dessert. Best categorized as traditional American.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Cuisine: American
Keyword: marshmellows, recipes, sweet potato casserole, sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving
Servings: 6 people
Cost: $10

Equipment

Ingredients

Ingredients:

  • 3 lbs. sweet potatoes peeled and cut evenly into quarters
  • ½ c. butter or margarine
  • 1 package marshmallows small marshmallows

Flavor Balancers:

  • Kosher salt
  • brown sugar

Aromatics:

  • ½ tsp. ginger ground
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • ½ tsp. cloves

Instructions

Notes

Roasting the sweet potatoes as opposed to boiling them adds a wonderful roasted quality to the dish that you can only get by roasting the sweet potatoes. The key here is to keep tossing the sweet potatoes in the butter until they are fork tender and thoroughly browned.