Recipe courtesy of Dave Herschkopf

Sugar and Spice Chipotle Whipped Sweet Potatoes

  • Level: Intermediate
  • Yield: 6 servings
  • Total: 2 hr 40 min
  • Prep: 15 min
  • Inactive: 30 min
  • Cook: 1 hr 55 min
Advertisement

Ingredients

5 pounds sweet potatoes (about 8 large),scrubbed

1 1/2 to 2 canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce*, minced and mashed to a paste (about 1 tablespoon)

3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened

1 teaspoon maple sugar

Salt

Freshly ground black pepper

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F and line a baking sheet with foil. Prick potatoes with a fork and bake in middle of oven 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until very soft. Cool potatoes until they can be handled and scoop flesh into a bowl. With an electric mixer beat potatoes with chili paste, butter, sugar, and salt and pepper, to taste, just until smooth and spread in a buttered 2-quart shallow baking dish. Potatoes may be prepared up to this point 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring potatoes to room temperature before proceeding. 
  2. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake potatoes in middle of oven until hot, 20 to 25 minutes.

Cook’s Note

*available at some supermarkets and specialty foods shops. Maple sugar is about twice as sweet as regular sugar. When making maple syrup, boil down the maple sap 20 to 50 percent, until it is thick. If you keep boiling down the syrup until the liquid is gone, then you have maple sugar.

Let's Get Cooking!

Sign up for the Recipe of the Day newsletter to receive editor-picked recipes,tips and videos delivered to your inbox daily. Privacy Policy

Thanks for subscribing to the Recipe of the Day newsletter. Check out all our other great newsletters from Easy Recipes, Healthy Eating Ideas and Chef Recipe Videos.

We're sorry, there was an error signing you up. Please try again later.

Advertisement

Stacy D.

I made these for a Thanksgiving potluck last year and was just requested to make them again.

See All Reviews