My mother in law makes a sweet potato casserole during the holidays that we call 'candy bar sweet potatoes'. It is the tastiest combination of mashed sweet potatoes and butter(the real stuff), topped with a coconut, brown sugar, cinnamon, and pecan crumble. BETTER than any pumpkin pie you could put in front of me! But sooooooooo bad on the calorie count. I will get the recipe and post it, pretty sure it involves one and a half sticks of butter and some heavy whipping cream.
In the meantime, I have concocted this recipe to satiate my taste buds.
Coconut Pumpkin Mash
1 can organic pumpkin(no spices added to the can)
1 tsp. cinnamon
4 T. brown sugar
1/2 c. coconut flakes.
1/4 c. broken walnuts or pecans
Get a large bowl and mix all the ingredients together. You may want to heat this up in the microwave for about 30 seconds. (sidenote: I've read that the micro kills the nutritional value of foods, so trying to avoid that these days)
Eat to your hearts content!
The can of pumpkin is only 100 calories for the WHOLE can. The added coconut and walnuts only add 250 or so more calories and only good fats.
The mixture is so filling I've only been able to eat half a recipe at a time.
Have attained the recipe from my mother in law for the calorically evil version.
Sweet Potato Casserole…
Author: www.whatscookingwithruthie.com
Recipe type: side
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Serves: 10
Ingredients
- 6 c. smashed sweet potatoes, you'll have to cook ahead of time
- 1 C brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ C whipping cream
- ½ C butter
- Topping:
- 3/4 C brown sugar
- 3/4 c. coconut flakes
- 1/3 C flour
- 1/2 C butter
- 1 C chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350 degrees.
- Mix first 7 ingredients and spread into a 9×13 casserole dish.
- In a large sauce pan over medium heat add topping ingredients and heat to boiling, stirring and pour over sweet potato mixture.
- Bake at 30 to 40 minutes. Enjoy!
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