Bourbon Mashed Sweet Potatoes

I’m not always a huge fan of mashed sweet potatoes. But throw some bourbon into the mix, and now you’re talking! Bourbon Mashed Sweet Potatoes are wonderfully creamy and flavorful.

Many mashed sweet potato recipes include the addition of brown sugar, but I think they’re already sweet enough without adding any sugar.

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How To Serve Bourbon Mashed Sweet Potatoes

These sweet potatoes are perfect for holiday meals or a fall dinner.

I love to serve mashed sweet potatoes with something spicy. They would go perfectly with this Spice Rubbed Slow Cooker Chicken. It also goes well with Root Beer Glazed Chicken.

Recipe Tips

When choosing sweet potatoes, don’t buy potatoes that are too large. They tend to be fibrous. When I bake them, I always place them on a baking sheet because they tend to ooze and they’ll make a mess of the bottom of your oven if you’re not careful.

If you want to makes these sweet potatoes non-alcoholic, try using apple cider or orange juice instead of bourbon.

More Ways To Cook with Bourbon

If you have an affinity for cooking with bourbon, you may want to try Double Frosted Bourbon Brownies, Bourbon Apple Pork Chops, Bourbon Balls, or Bourbon Beef Stew. They are all heavenly.

Bourbon Mashed Sweet Potatoes

5 from 1 vote

Prep: 15 minutes mins

Cook: 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Total: 1 hour hr 30 minutes mins

Servings: 6

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Bourbon Mashed Sweet Potatoes are creamy, sweet, and have a little spice from some cayenne pepper. They perfectly complement almost any meat dish, especially a holiday ham.

Equipment

• Hand-held electric mixer

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Ingredients

• ▢ 2 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes
• ▢ 1/4 cup half and half
• ▢ 2 tablespoons butter
• ▢ 2 tablespoons bourbon
• ▢ pinch of cayenne
• ▢ salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Instructions 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake sweet potatoes until very soft and starting to ooze, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Let sweet potatoes cool a touch and then remove and discard skins and place pulp in the bowl of an electric mixer.
• Add half and half, butter, and bourbon and beat until smooth. Season to taste with cayenne, salt and black pepper.

Nutrition

Calories: 221kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 140mg | Potassium: 651mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 26965IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 69mg | Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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