Best 20 Sweet Potato Mash Recipes

SWEET POTATO AND PARSNIP MASH

Steps:

• Peel the sweet potatoes and parsnips, and cut into 1/4-inch thick slices.
• Combine the sweet potato and parsnip slices, cream, butter, salt and half of the horseradish in a 3- or 4-quart saucepan with a tight-fitting lid. Heat over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables have softened. This will take about 40 to 50 minutes.
• Remove from heat and mash with a potato masher to desired texture. Stir in half of remaining horseradish, making sure to incorporate well. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt, additional horseradish and/or sweetener if needed. Serve hot.

CARROT-SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• Place carrots and potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and allow to steam dry for a minute or two.
• Meanwhile, melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, then stir in the applesauce and brown sugar until dissolved. When the potatoes are ready, transfer to a serving bowl and mash until smooth. Then fold in the applesauce mixture and raisins.

RUTABAGA-SWEET POTATO MASH WITH GARLIC AND SAGE

Steps:

• In a pot, combine rutabaga and sweet potatoes; cover with water by a few inches and season generously with salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and cook until easily pierced with the tip of a knife, about 15 minutes. Drain.
• Return pot to medium heat; add butter. When it melts, add garlic and sage; cook 1 minute. Add cream; bring to a simmer, then remove from heat. Return rutabaga and sweet potatoes to pot; mash to desired consistency and season with salt and pepper. Serve.

SUNNY'S EASY BBQ BRAISED BRISKET WITH SWEET POTATO AND CARROT MASH

Steps:

• Coat the brisket on all sides with the rub and actually rub it in. Pull out a length of plastic wrap for the brisket and drizzle some oil where you plan to place the brisket. Place the brisket on top and drizzle the top with oil. Wrap tightly and rest at room temperature for 2 hours. If you are making this ahead of time, you can refrigerate, then rest on the counter for 2 hours before braising.
• Add 2 tablespoons of oil to a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. When the oil begins to swirl, add the brisket and sear on all sides until browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Remove to a plate.
• Add the onions, carrots and potatoes to the pot and cook for a few minutes to coat them in the fat and get a bit of color. Make the contents of the pot as level as possible, toss in the garlic, then place the seared brisket on top of the vegetables.
• Stir together the BBQ sauce and stock in a medium bowl. Add to the pot around the brisket, being careful to only fill halfway up the brisket, leaving a bit of the seared meat above the liquid line (you may not use all the liquid). Raise to a boil and lower to a low simmer. Cook, covered, for 2 to 3 hours without peeking, until the brisket is tender!
• Remove the brisket from the pot to a plate and cover gently with aluminum foil. Remove the vegetables from the pot with a slotted spoon and place in a food processor. Blitz until smooth, adding liquid from the pot if needed for texture. Use the remaining liquid as a sauce for the brisket, if desired. Transfer the mash to a bowl and fold in the parsley. Serve with the sliced brisket and additional sauce.

SWEET-POTATO-AND-CAULIFLOWER MASH

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add sweet potatoes and return to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 8 minutes. Add cauliflower; return to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until potatoes and cauliflower are very tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Drain and return vegetables to pot. Place over medium heat and cook, stirring, until a film forms on bottom of pot, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Combine milk, butter, nutmeg, and cayenne in a small pot. Bring just to a simmer. Add to cauliflower-potato mixture and mash. Season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately, or keep warm in a heatproof bowl set over a pot of simmering water up to 1 hour. Mash can be rewarmed by adding about 1/4 cup milk and stirring over low heat.

SPICED SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• Place sweet potatoes in a large saucepan; cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 15-20 minutes or until tender. Drain., In a large bowl, mash potatoes. Add the cream cheese, milk, brown sugar and seasonings; beat until smooth. Top with pecans.

BROWN SUGAR SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• wash sweet potatoes.
• poke with a fork.
• bake in 400 degree oven for 1 1/2 hours until middle is soft.
• peel off skins.
• put hot potatoes in mixing bowl. Add butter and mash with mashed.
• Add brown sugar and half & half and mash until completely mixed.

CURRIED SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• Heat butter and olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; stir in onion and garlic. Reduce heat to low and saute until onions are soft and clear but not toasted, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Pierce potatoes with a fork. Microwave 3 at a time on high power until tender, but not overdone, 5 to 6 minutes.
• Mash and mix sweet potatoes with onion-garlic mixture, ginger, creme fraiche, curry powder, turmeric, and pepper until well combined.

BOURBON-WALNUT SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Roast potatoes on rimmed baking sheet until tender, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Cool slightly. Scoop flesh into large bowl; discard skins. Mash hot potatoes until coarse puree forms.
• Heat cream and butter in heavy small saucepan over low heat until butter melts, stirring occasionally. Gradually stir hot cream mixture into hot potatoes. Stir in syrup, bourbon, and all spices. Season with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD: Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm in microwave. Sprinkle nuts over and serve.

CURRIED SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• Make Sweet Potato Mash; puree with 1 tablespoon curry powder and 3 tablespoons each plain Greek yogurt and mango chutney. Top with toasted coconut.
• Sweet Potato Mashed Potatoes Roast 2 pounds sweet potatoes at 400 degrees until tender, 1 hour. Halve, then scoop out flesh. Puree with 4 tablespoons butter; add salt.
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EMERIL'S SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• In a large pot over high heat, bring the sweet potatoes and water to a boil. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are tender.
• Drain well and return to the pot.
• Add butter, salt and pepper to taste, cinnamon and honey and mash until all ingredients are combined.
• Serve immediately.

SWEET POTATO & BANANA MASH

Steps:

• Wash sweet potatoes and roast in a in a 375°F preheated oven for 75-90 minutes, or until soft and starting to release some juice.
• Add bananas during the last 15 minutes of cooking.
• While the potatoes are cooking melt the 2 tablespoons of butter in a skillet and toast the pecans over a medium heat, tossing often.
• All the butter will be absorbed and the nuts will be slightly fragrant.
• Add a bit of salt and toss again.
• After roasting let the potatoes cool enough to just handle them, peel and mash with bananas, melted butter, granulated sugar and honey.
• Season to taste and add more sugar if desired (it will depend on your taste and how sweet the veggies are to begin with) In a small bowl mix the 2 tablespoons of cold butter into the brown sugar with your fingers, it'll be lumpy, but that's OK.
• Spread the mashed mixture in a buttered baking dish, cover with pecans and sprinkle with brown sugar/butter combination. Bake at 350°F for 20-30 minutes until the topping is partially melted.

NEW ZEALAND RACK OF LAMB WITH SWEET POTATO MASH AND THREE BEAN RAGOUT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Drain and rinse all liquid off beans. Combine beans in a bowl and set aside. Begin cooking bacon in a saute pan. Begin roasting yams in preheated oven until soft, and remove to let cool enough to handle.
• Heat olive oil in another large saute pan for the lamb. Season the rack of lamb with salt and pepper. Place lamb into hot pan and sear meat all around.
• Remove bacon to drain on paper toweling. In same pan lightly saute onion and garlic in bacon fat until translucent. Add red wine and reduce by half.
• Place the lamb in a roasting pan and roast in the oven until done to your liking, about 15 to 20 minutes for medium rare, an internal temperature of 125 degrees F (this means that because of the 5 to 8 minutes of carryover cooking while it rests, you pull it out at 120 degrees F so it will end up at 125 degrees F for medium rare).
• When yams are cool enough to handle, peel off skin and add butter and cream and mash. Season with salt and pepper, as needed.
• Remove the lamb to a utility platter and let rest before slicing.
• Add demi-glace and tomato paste to the pan with the onion, garlic, and bacon fat, then incorporate all beans with mixture. Lower heat and simmer. Add rosemary and chives. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Place sweet potatoes in the middle of a serving platter. Surround potatoes with bean ragout. Slice rack of lamb in between bones and lay over potatoes. Spoon demi-glace sauce over and serve.

SWEET POTATO & CARROT MASH

Steps:

• Put the carrot, sweet potato, apple and stock in a saucepan over a high heat; add 2 cups of water and bring to the boil; reduce the heat and simmer for 20-25 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender when pierced with a fork and the liquid has reduced; cover with a lid and set aside for 10 minutes.
• Heat the margarine (or butter) in a medium-sized non-stick pan over a medium heat and pan-fry the leek for about 3 minutes or until it softens, then add the onion, garlic and ginger, stirring to make sure that the ginger is mixed through the other ingredients, cook for 2-3 minutes; remove the pan from the heat and transfer the contents of the pan together with the carrot and sweet potato mixture into a food processor and process together until smooth.
• Transfer to a serving bowl, stir through the coriander leaves (and sunflower seeds if including) and serve.

KUMARA (SWEET POTATO) AND GINGER MASH

Steps:

• Boil the kumara in salted water until tender, then drain well.
• Mash with the ginger, brown sugar and butter.
• Season with salt and pepper and serve immediately, or keep warm until serving.

SUNNYS'S EASY BBQ BRAISED BRISKET SWEET POTATO CARROT MASH

Steps:

• Coat brisket with rub. rest at room temp for 2 hours if desired.
• Brown brisket in olive oil in large dutch oven. remove.
• add onions, carrots, potatoes to pot and cook and stir to coat with oil for a few minutes. toss in garlic. Place seared brisket on top.
• Stir together BBQ sauce and beef stock in medium bowl. Add to pot. not too high for good braising. rasie to boil, then cover and simmer, or in a 300 degree oven for 2.5-3 hours.
• Remove brisket and cover with foil. remove veggies into cuisinart. Blitz until smooth with a little liquid if needed. Use remaining liquid as sauce for meat.

SWEET POTATO MASH WITH CARAMELISED ONIONS

Steps:

• Peel onions, cut in half and finely slice so you have half moon shaped circles.
• Put into a medium frypan and drizzle with oil and massage the oil in to break up the half rings.
• Cover frypan and cook over a low to moderate heat giving a stir occasionally until a nice golden colour (about 30 to 40 minutes), the longer you take the sweeter the onion will be.
• Put sweet potatoes in a pot of cold water and season with a little salt and bring to the boil and cook till tender.
• When potatoes are cook, drain and give a good shake, put in butter and mash (I used a potato masher) till you get the consistency you like (I like a slightly lumpy texture).
• Add your caramelised onions and mix in well (I just used a fork) and season with salt and pepper to taste.

SWEET POTATO AND CORIANDER MASH

Steps:

• Bring a large pan of lightly salted water to the boil.
• Peel and cube the potatoes and add to the pan with the garlic.
• Return to the boil and simmer for 15-20 minutes until tender.
• Add the coriander and cook for 10 seconds; drain well, then return to the pan.
• Set the pan over a gentle flame and stir with a wooden spoon for 1-2 minutes to evaporate any excess water, but be careful not to let the potatoes catch and burn on the bottom of the pan.
• Turn off the heat and mash well.
• Add the creme fraiche and some salt and pepper and mash together until smooth and creamy.
• Serve warm.

NEW ZEALAND RACK OF LAMB WITH SWEET POTATO MASH AND THREE BEAN R

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Drain and rinse all liquid off beans. Combine beans in a bowl and set aside. Begin cooking bacon in a saute pan. Begin roasting yams in preheated oven until soft, and remove to let cool enough to handle.
• Heat olive oil in another large saute pan for the lamb. Season the rack of lamb with salt and pepper. Place lamb into hot pan and sear meat all around.
• Remove bacon to drain on paper toweling. In same pan lightly saute onion and garlic in bacon fat until translucent. Add red wine and reduce by half.
• Place the lamb in a roasting pan and roast in the oven until done to your liking, about 15 to 20 minutes for medium rare, an internal temperature of 125 degrees F (this means that because of the 5 to 8 minutes of carryover cooking while it rests, you pull it out at 120 degrees F so it will end up at 125 degrees F for medium rare).
• When yams are cool enough to handle, peel off skin and add butter and cream and mash. Season with salt and pepper, as needed.
• Remove the lamb to a utility platter and let rest before slicing.
• Add demi-glace and tomato paste to the pan with the onion, garlic, and bacon fat, then incorporate all beans with mixture. Lower heat and simmer. Add rosemary and chives. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Place sweet potatoes in the middle of a serving platter. Surround potatoes with bean ragout. Slice rack of lamb in between bones and lay over potatoes. Spoon demi-glace sauce over and serve.

SUPER SIMPLE SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• Overcook the sweet potatoes. Either bake them in foil, steam, roast (I'm sure roasting would give them an even nicer flavour) or bbq. Get them overcooked so they are really soft and you can mash them with a fork.
• Add applesauce (we used an Organics Applesauce snack cup. I think it might have been sweetened, so you may need to add some sugar to tast if you use unsweetened).
• Add Cinnamon.
• Mash it all together with a fork, or use a blender for a smoother texture and serve.