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penny's sweet potato casserole

(1 rating)
Recipe by
Penny Burdge
Lenexa, KS

After using the same sweet potato recipe for 30+ years, this Thanksgiving (2012) I decided to try something different. My usual recipe uses quartered small sweet potatoes,a spicy/slighty sweet sauce of brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, butter and both lemons and orange juice. I looked through all the sweet potato casserole recipes on this site (and allrecipes.com) - but I just couldn't find one that seemed to "fit" my family. Couldn't be too sweet and had to have a zing of citrus. So this is what I devised from multiple recipes. We loved it, especially the zip from the citrus zests.

(1 rating)
yield 10 -12
prep time 1 Hr
cook time 35 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For penny's sweet potato casserole

  • 8 md
    sweet potatoes
  • 1/4 c
    dark brown sugar
  • 2 lg
    eggs, slight beaten
  • 1/4 c
    evaporated milk or half and half
  • 1/4 c
    fresh orange juice
  • 1 tsp
    pure vanilla extract
  • 6 Tbsp
    very soft butter
  • 1/4 tsp
    freshly grated nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp
    cinnamon
  • zest from a medium-large orange
  • TOPPING
  • 1/4 c
    all-purpose flour
  • 4 Tbsp
    very cold butter
  • 6 Tbsp
    dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 c
    chopped pecans
  • 1/2 tsp
    ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp
    freshly grated nutmeg
  • zest from a medium large lemon

How To Make penny's sweet potato casserole

  • 1
    Clean and wrap the sweet potatoes in aluminum foil. Bake in a 350 degree oven until soft, about 40-45 minutes. Remove from oven, remove foil and allow to cool until they cool enough to handle, but are still warm. Remove the skins.
  • 2
    In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, vanilla, orange juice.
  • 3
    Put the sweet potatoes in a large bowl and hand mash with the soft butter, spices and brown sugar. Blend in the egg mixture. Stir in the orange zest. Place the sweet potato mixture in a 9" x 13" buttered casserole.
  • 4
    Make the topping by cutting the butter into the flour in a small bowl until you have pea-sized pieces. add the spices and pecans. Stir in the lemon zest.
  • 5
    Sprinkle the topping evenly over the sweet potatoes and bake for about 30 minutes until the topping is browned and crunchy.
  • 6
    *Note - if you like very smooth potatoes, in step 3 you can use a hand mixer to whip up the sweet potato mixture. We tend to like more texture to our food, so I just hand mash.

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