Sweet Potato Pie
From pointsevenout 16 years ago
- 80 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Inspired by other recipes, the potato meat is sautéed then simmered to prepare it for this pie.
Ingredients
- 4 c peeled 2” cubed sweet potato shopping list
- 4 T butter shopping list
- 1T vegetable oil shopping list
- ½ c water shopping list
- 1 ½ c sugar, divided shopping list
- ½ c molasses shopping list
- 2 eggs, separated shopping list
- ¼ c evaporated milk shopping list
- ¼ t salt shopping list
- ½ t cinnamon shopping list
- ½ t ginger shopping list
- ½ t nutmeg shopping list
How to make it
- Prepare a single crust 9” pie plate. Prep time does not include crust.
- Prepare sweet potatoes.
- Melt butter and oil in a sauté pan over medium heat; add sweet potato, sauté ‘till fragrent.
- Mix water, ½ c sugar, and molasses; add to sweet potato. Reduce heat to simmer; cover and simmer for 25 minutes and potato is fork tender.
- Beat egg yolks and milk together.
- Mix spices together.
- Remove sweet potato from syrup and process with a potato ricer. The potatoes cook down to 2 cups riced.
- Take up the syrup from the sauté pan; cool, refrigerate, for use on pancakes or the like.
- Stir potatoes and let cool for 5 minutes.
- Locate rack to bottom of oven. Preheat oven to 425*f.
- Add spice mix; stir to mix.
- Add egg mix; stir to mix.
- Beat egg whites until foamy; add 1 cup sugar slowly, beat until stiff peaks form.
- Fold egg white into potato mix.
- Pour into crust and bake on bottom rack of oven for 45 minutes. Put a pie ring on the crust edge if it tries to brown too much.
- Cool and serve.
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