Papa Charles' Sweet Potato Pie
photo by loof751
- Ready In:
- 1hr 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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1-2 pies
- Serves:
- 8-12
ingredients
- 1 unbaked deep dish 9-inch pie shell (store bought or home made..you decide)
- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt salt
- 1 dash salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup evaporated milk
- 3 -4 medium sweet potatoes (I use red yams for the beautiful color)
directions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Peel, pare and then boil potatoes in a covered pot with a dash of salt in the water for about 15 minutes or until soft.
- Mash and blend with and electric mixer. (Remove "strings" by repeatedly rinsing the blades of your mixer under water until a smooth texture is achieved -- this may take several times).
- Combine both sugars, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves, and vanilla with sweet potatoes, mix until smooth.
- Taste and adjust seasonings per your taste.
- After sweet potatoes have cooled, beat eggs in seperate bowl and add to sweet potato mix.
- Add evaporated milk.
- Pour into pie shell. (depending on size of sweet potatoes, you may have enough filling for 2 pies!).
- Bake at 425 for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350 and bake for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Allow to cool to room temperature, or chill before serving. Enjoy topped with whipped cream.
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Reviews
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This pie is wonderful! Sweet and rich and spicy. Your method of removing the "strings" from the sweet potatoes worked very well and my filling was smooth and creamy. I made 3 small mini pies and had just the right amount of filling for that. Thanks for sharing a great recipe! Made for Spring Pick-A-Chef 2011
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As much as I love pumpkin pie, I like those dark colored sweet potatoes even more, & in a pie, they're outstanding! Your recipe is just wonderful, & the 2 of us thoroughly enjoyed eating the whole thing (though not at one sitting, of course)! Even had a piece of it with some ice cream (thank you for the tip)! I'll be making this one again & again! Thanks for sharing it!Made this especially for my vegetarian son & DIL & it was a big hit with all of us!