Sweet Potato Souffles for Two
- Ready In:
- 1hr 8mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
2
ingredients
- 4 teaspoons sugar, divided
- 1 (12 ounce) sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1⁄2 - 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
- 4 teaspoons flour
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 2 eggs, separated
- 1⁄4 cup miniature marshmallow
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Grease two 2-cup souffle dishes or custard cups and sprinkle each with 1/2 a teaspoon of sugar; set aside.
- Place the sweet potato in a saucepan; cover with water.
- Cover and cook until tender, about 10-15 minutes; drain well.
- Mash lemon juice, salt, and nutmeg into the sweet potatoes. You should have about 1 cup.
- Set aside to cool.
- In another saucepan, melt butter; stir in flour and 3 teaspoons sugar until smooth.
- Gradually add milk; cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.
- Remove from the heat.
- In a small bowl, beat egg yolks; stir in mashed potato and milk/butter mixture.
- In another bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; gently fold into potato mixture.
- Divide and spoon into prepared dishes; top with marshmallows.
- Bake, uncovered for 35-38 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Serve immediately.
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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