Mashed Sweet Potatoes Three Ways

Billy Strynkowski is the executive chef,  recipe developer, and writer for Cooking Light Magazine.  In this video, he shows us 3 amazingly simple ways to prepare mashed sweet potatoes, a perfect Thanksgiving side dish recipe time saver.

Starting with the mashed sweet potatoes mixed with butter, salt, and pepper, his first method blends in mashed bananas for a Caribbean flavor.  The second method blends in light coconut milk.  In his third method he simply folds in orange juice concentrate.

We tried the mashed bananas version last night.  We steamed 2 cut and peeled sweet potatoes for 20 minutes, added 1 tbsp of butter, salt and pepper to taste, and added one mashed banana.  We  garnished it with a few dried cranberries, and it was delicious.

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Care to step it up a notch? Try one of the above techniques using homemade butter instead of store bought. Read this post to learn how simple it is to make in less than 15 minutes –> How to make butter.