These Savory Mashed Sweet Potatoes are so rich and creamy that they'll melt right in your mouth. Seasoned with butter, fresh herbs, and a little spice, they'll be the perfect addition to your holiday meal. Just make sure you get some before they run out!
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About these potatoes
Regular mashed potatoes are delicious, but something about mashed sweet potatoes just gets my holiday spirit going! While I love sweet potato casserole—and marshmallows, DUH—I wanted to give you a recipe that could be made in under an hour right on the stovetop!
These Savory Mashed Sweet Potatoes are so rich and creamy. Made with butter and half and half, they're smooth, silky, and will melt right in your mouth. They're also seasoned them with plenty of fresh herbs and seasonings to take them up a notch.
These delicious mashed sweet potatoes will taste amazing with whatever protein and veggies will be on your table! And if you LOVE sweet potatoes, also try this Baked Greek Sweet Potato recipe, this Creamy Sweet Potato Pasta, or this Turkey Sweet Potato Chili.
Recipe Ingredients
- Sweet Potatoes: I think the flavor in sweet potatoes goes so well with the flavors in other traditional holiday dishes.
- Butter: This will help add richness and creamy texture to our mashed potatoes.
- Hot Sauce: I added this for a little kick. I think it complements the flavor of the sweet potatoes so well. However, you can omit it if you don't like spice.
- Elote Seasoning: This is an incredibly delicious blend of chile pepper, parmesan cheese, chipotle powder, cumin, cilantro, and sea salt. I picked it up at Trader Joe's!
- Half and Half: Really makes our potatoes creamy. You can also use coconut cream or whole milk here. Keep in mind that if you substitute with a dairy free alternative, you'll need to add about 3-4x the amount. This is because it will absorb faster into the potatoes.
- Gouda Cheese: Technically, you could use whatever cheese you wanted here. But I love the almost butterscotch-like taste!
- Fresh Herbs: This recipe calls for both parsley and thyme.
See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
How to Make This Recipe
1. Pour water into a pot and heat to high heat. Let it come to a boil. Using a vegetable peeler, remove all of the skin from the sweet potatoes.
2. hen, cut your peeled potatoes into ¼” slices and then again into quarters. We want them to be bite-sized!
3. Place the sweet potato chunks into the boiling water. Boil for 20 minutes or until all potatoes are tender. You should be able to pierce them with a fork.
4. Drain the water and turn the heat down to medium-low. Before adding the potatoes back to the pot, add the butter and let it soften. Add the potatoes back in. Then, add salt, hot sauce, elote seasoning, half and half, shaved gouda cheese, fresh thyme, and parsley.
5. Mash the potatoes with a potato masher until you receive your desired mashed potato consistency. Stir constantly to keep them getting too thick. Garnish with fresh thyme, slice of butter or two, and enjoy!
Recipe FAQs
I recommend serving these as soon as they're ready. However, if you do find yourself with some leftovers, you can store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat in the microwave in 30 second intervals until warmed throughout.
First, I'm sorry to hear you can't find the seasoning. It's so delicious! I recommend ordering Elote Seasoning from Amazon! But if you don't have it on hand, you can absolutely season these mashed potatoes with something else. I recommend using fresh rosemary, oregano, or garlic.
You don’t HAVE to, but peeling them will help create a smoother texture. Because this is a savory recipe, the skins would actually help incorporate some earthy flavor.
A potato masher, blender, food processor, or stand mixer will all work!
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Recipe
Savory Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Equipment
- 5-qt or larger stove pot
- Vegetable peeler
- Potato masher
- Cutting Board
- Knife
- Measuring cups and spoons
- strainer
Ingredients
- 5 cups water
- 5 sweet potatoes
- 6 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp hot sauce
- 4 tbsp elote seasoning
- ¼ cup half and half
- ½ cup gouda cheese, shaved
- 8 stalks fresh thyme
- 2 tbsp parsley
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Pour water into a pot and heat to high heat. Let it come to a boil.
- Using a vegetable peeler, remove all of the skin from the sweet potatoes. Then, cut your peeled potatoes into ¼” slices and then again into quarters. We want them to be bite-sized!
- Place the sweet potato chunks into the boiling water. Boil for 20 minutes or until all potatoes are tender. You should be able to pierce them with a fork.
- Drain the water and turn the heat down to medium-low. Before adding the potatoes back to the pot, add the butter and let it soften.
- Add the potatoes back in. Then, add salt, hot sauce, elote seasoning, half and half, shaved gouda cheese, fresh thyme, and parsley.
- Mash the potatoes with a potato masher until you receive your desired mashed potato consistency.
- Garnish with fresh thyme, slice of butter or two, and enjoy!
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Megan McClellan says
These were such a fun alternative to sweet potato casserole that the fam usually makes! So creamy and YUM!
Courtney Paige says
Thank you for trying them out! I love the creaminess of them 🙂
Nicole Cavanaugh says
Amazing!
Sydney Van Acker says
leave the marshmallows behind! these are the only sweet potatoes you need in your life!
Courtney Paige says
I add some roasted jalapeno peppers into this recipe and it brings the perfect amount of heat!