Sweet Potatoes Au Gratin With a Kick!

Submitted by 2Bleu

"Here's something different to try. Enjoy."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 3 cups heavy cream
• 2 dried chipotle peppers
• 5 large sweet potatoes, peeled and very thinly sliced
• 3 cups gruyere cheese, grated
• 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a saucepan combine heavy cream and chipotle chile peppers. Bring to a boil, simmer for 5 minutes and remove from heat.
2. Allow to sit for 10 minutes and strain.
3. Stem and seed the chiles. In a blender puree the heavy cream with the chiles until smooth.
4. In a 13 by 9-inch baking dish, spread out one-third of the sweet potatoes.
5. Sprinkle 1 cup of the cheese over the potatoes and season with grated nutmeg, salt and pepper. Pour about 1 cup of the heavy cream over the potatoes and cheese.
6. Repeat procedure two more times ending with cheese on top, only using enough cream to just cover the potatoes. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until potatoes are tender and browned.

Reviews

[JOAN F.]

This is my favorite recipe for kicked up, spicy sweet potatoes. I made it for several get-togethers and it was always a hit. I have also used monterey jack chees in place of the gruyere cheese. The best!

 

[JillAZ]

Outstanding recipe! Very rich, flavorful and delicious! I used chipotle powder instead of dried chipotles. I heated the cream in the microwave and whisked in the powder. Then assembled and baked as directed. Fantastic holiday dish. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Nimz_]

This was good and very different. I skipped the boiling step and used jalapeno peppers since that was what I had. We liked the heat that they brought to the dish. Scaled this down for the two of us and used 1/2 and 1/2 to cut some of the calories. Thanks

 

[IngridH]

This was simply wonderful! I used a mandolin to cut the potatoes, so they were almost paper-thin, and the cream steeped with chipotle made huge splash of flavor. I just grated the nutmeg and cheese on instead of measuring, but I loved the flavors they brought to the dish. If my guests weren't so spice-scared, I'd serve this for Thanksgiving. Way better than the sickly sweet marshmallow coated stuff, but with the natural sweetness of the potato coming through to satisfy the sweet tooth.

 

[DIANA S.]

This is a terrific way to serve sweet potatoes. Even people who think they hate sweet potatoes love these. I've been serving them on Thanksgiving for years, now, and if I want to try something new the family votes me down. I have found over the years that 2 dried chipotles is only slightly spicy so I've upped the number to 3 or 4. What I'm trying to find out is what would happen if I substitute canned chipotles?