Holiday Sweet Potatoes
Recipe: #26115
May 24, 2017
Categories: Side Dishes, Sweet Potato/Yam, Southern, Christmas, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Oven Bake, Gluten-Free High Fiber, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Alcohol, Wine, Kosher Dairy, more
"Not just for holidays, these sweet potatoes are flavorful. The sherry makes them special."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (280.3 g)
- Calories 380.2
- Total Fat - 12.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.8 g
- Cholesterol - 7.6 mg
- Sodium - 49.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 63.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 7 g
- Sugars - 31.4 g
- Protein - 8.4 g
- Calcium - 88.6 mg
- Iron - 8 mg
- Vitamin C - 26.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Scrub sweet potatoes and grease skins. Spear with a fork before baking.
Step 2
Lay them on a small sheet of aluminum foil and bake at 350' for 1 hour or more, till tender to the fork.
Step 3
Cut each potato in half and scoop potato from shells.
Step 4
Mash potatoes enough to remove any lumps.
Step 5
Stir in sherry, a small amount of butter, salt to taste, and chopped nuts.
Step 6
Raisins can be added if desired.
Step 7
Return the mixture to the shells and top with brown sugar.
Step 8
Dot tops of potatoes with butter.
Step 9
Heat in warm oven just long enough to melt the butter and the brown sugar.
Tips
No special items needed.