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Fresh Sweet Potato Casserole

Published: Nov 21, 2018 · Modified: Sep 7, 2024 by Louisiana Woman · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

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Nothing goes better in Fresh Sweet Potato Casserole than the flavors of butter, vanilla, and a brown sugar nut topping. This naturally sweet vegetable serves well alongside any main dish or as a dessert to end a delicious meal.  

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Traditionally, sweet potatoes are served at Thanksgiving and are always welcome in this casserole dish at our annual feasting table.

This recipe is from my mother-in-law. Soon after I married her son, I had to learn to cook. It was a must for survival. My sister-in-law was shocked one day to see my hands with multiple cuts on them. When she asked what happened, I said, "I'm learning how to cut up a chicken."

I questioned my mama why she didn't teach me how to cook, and she told me no one taught her either. We must have inherited the"sink or swim" tradition. Maybe it's because we took good food for granted until we had to learn for ourselves.

For more recipes to go with these sweet potatoes all year round, check out 20 Cajun Thanksgiving Recipes For Your Holiday Menu.  From appetizers to desserts, they may steer you away from your traditional Thanksgiving meal, but they won't disappoint!

The Louisiana Sweet Potatoes

Every Christmas, we get a box of Louisiana sweet potatoes from friends in South Louisiana. They call it their candy, and they are right in doing so. This year we got them a little early with instructions not to eat them until after the 17th day of November. Someone had calculated their peak of flavor to the day, just in time for Thanksgiving. 

Ingredients of sweet potatoes, milk, butter, sugar, vanilla for Fresh Sweet Potato Casserole.

Assembling The Casserole

The casserole is made with mashed sweet potatoes, so you can bake or boil them until they are cooked tender. 

Cubed sweet potatoes in a pot of water to boil for Fresh Sweet Potato Casserole.

The butter, sugar, and vanilla blend well with the sweet potatoes. That's what makes them so irresistibly delicious. The eggs and milk help to bind and moisten the casserole dish.

Milk poured into a bowl of mashed sweet potatoes for Fresh Sweet Potato casserole.

The crunchy topping of brown sugar, butter, and pecans adds texture and flavor that complete this masterpiece. This makes me hungry!

Brown sugar nut topping being put on top of Fresh Sweet Potato Casserole.

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Serve this Sweet Potato Casserole with its brown sugar and nut topping as a side dish or dessert.

  • Total Time: 45 minutes
  • Yield: 10 1x

Ingredients

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Sweet Potatoes

  • 3 cups sweet potatoes, cooked and mashed
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 2 large eggs
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup milk
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla

Nut Topping

  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ⅓ cup butter, melted
  • ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup pecans, chopped
  • ¼ cup pecans, chopped for garnish

Instructions

Sweet Potatoes

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and butter a 9 x 13 x 2-inch casserole dish.
  2. Mix the potatoes, butter, eggs, sugar, milk, salt, and vanilla in a large bowl and pour into the prepared dish.

Nut Topping

  1. Mix the nut topping ingredients and sprinkle on top of the potatoes. 
  2. Garnish with the rest of the pecans.
  3. Bake for 30 minutes.
  4. Serve warm.

Notes

Peel and cube sweet potatoes to boil in water until they are tender, or bake them whole in the oven until fork-tender and scoop them out of the skins and into a bowl with the rest of the ingredients.

The hot potatoes with melt the butter when mixing the ingredients together.

  • Author: Louisiana Woman
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Category: side dish / sweets
  • Method: baking
  • Cuisine: American

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Thanksgiving And Sweet Potatoes

The tradition of sweet potatoes served at Thanksgiving has traveled long since the first feast with the new settlers and Native Americans. It was November 1621, to be exact. So while continuing this feasting with thankfulness, we don't forget the sweet potato and its health benefits. It's loaded with fiber, vitamins C, and beta-carotene. If you're interested in learning more about the root vegetable, click here for Sweet Potato Facts & Tips from the Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission. 

You may be thinking, "This sweet potato casserole sure adds a lot of fluff camouflaging those healthy qualities." But I say, "You can eat a plain sweet potato any day of the year, but an occasional festive indulgence doesn't hurt." It's so worth it!

A sweet potato casserole dish with a  serving in a smalll white bowl next to it.

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  1. Annie says

    November 21, 2018 at 10:20 am

    I am trying this tomorrow,Thanks

    Reply
    • Louisiana Woman says

      November 21, 2018 at 10:51 am

      You are so welcome! Have a happy blessed Thanksgiving!

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