Southern

Sweet Potato Casserole

Name: Sweet Potato Casserole
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 3 lb sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed; 6 tbsp butter; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 2 large eggs; 1/4 cup milk; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 cup pecans, chopped

Tamika @tamika_clt

Sweet Potato Casserole is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

55 min Medium Eggetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 lb sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
6 tbsp butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup pecans, chopped

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 350F and butter a baking dish.
Boil the sweet potatoes in salted water until fork-tender, about 15 minutes, then drain and mash.
Beat in 4 tbsp of the butter, 1/4 cup of the brown sugar, the eggs, milk, vanilla, and salt until smooth.
Spread into the baking dish.
Mix the remaining brown sugar and pecans with the remaining melted butter and scatter over the top.
Bake until set and the topping is toasted, about 30 minutes.

Watch how to cook Sweet Potato Casserole

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sweet Potato Casserole, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sweet Potato Casserole carries tree nuts, dairy, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Sweet Potato Casserole
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	Yes	Buttermilk Biscuits
Dairy	Yes	Vegetarian Baked Beans
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Buttermilk Biscuits
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 400 kcal
Protein: 5 g
Carbs: 53 g
Fat: 19 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 28 g
Sodium: 170 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Sweet Potato Casserole takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.