Apple-topped mashed sweet potatoes
5
Points®
Total Time
1 hr 50 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
1 hr 30 min
Serves
10
Difficulty
Moderate
This delicious combination of apples and sweet potatoes is a side dish certain to impress your holiday guests or for any dinner party celebration. The recipe also features unsweetened orange juice, ground nutmeg, and ground cinnamon. Just be sure to use Golden Delicious apples because they hold their shape well while cooking. Feel free to make any kind of pretty apple pattern you want on top of the potatoes. And for even more added convenience, you can assemble this dish up to 4 hours in advance (up to the point of baking it). Keep it refrigerated but let it come to room temperature before baking.
Ingredients
Uncooked sweet potato
5 pound(s), medium-size, scrubbed, pierced with a fork
Salted butter
1 Tbsp
Apple
2 medium, Golden Delicious, peeled, cored and sliced 1/4-inch thick
Unsweetened orange juice
½ cup(s)
Table salt
½ tsp
Ground nutmeg
½ tsp
Ground cinnamon
¼ tsp, plus extra for sprinkling on final product
Black pepper
¼ tsp, freshly ground
Cooking spray
1 spray(s)