Bourbon Sweet Mash
The Nitty Gritty:
A crowd-pleasing winter side- Level: 1
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Yields: 6 servings
- Tags: potato side dish vegetarian
I’ve made this recipe for friends and clients, and it’s been well-received by all. The bourbon adds a kick and complements the maple syrup and natural sweetness of the potatoes.
Fun fact: most of the “yams” marketed as such in the US are actually sweet potatoes. Real yams are hard to come by, but are sometimes found at Latin American grocers. Read all about sweet potatoes and yams here.
Ingredients:
- 6 medium sweet potatoes
- ½ cup pure maple syrup
- ½ cup bourbon
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
Instructions:
- Peel sweet potatoes and chop into 1.5-inch pieces.
- Place potatoes in a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook until potatoes are knife-tender (meaning you can insert a knife into a piece with ease), about 10-12 minutes.
- Drain potatoes and add butter pieces, syrup, bourbon, and salt.
- Mash to desired consistency with either a potato masher or hand mixer. Taste and adjust salt if necessary.
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By Julia Swenson
Julia B. Swenson is outsourcing her culinary talents from Santa Monica, Calif., where she is the owner and catering chef of Julia’s Kitchen, a catering company serving Los Angeles and Orange Counties. When not working, she enjoys making delectable treats for family and friends. Trained at the Le Cordon Bleu school in Pasadena, she believes whole-heartedly in the motto: Make every meal good to the last bite!
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Jackson
December 9 4:49 p.m. 1Good call on the bourbon, but thanks even more for the link about the difference. Asking my parents to have a couple sweet potatoes ready for me to work with on Thanksgiving turned out to be cough cough less than fruitful. It looks like they must have been "hard" sweet potatoes, and they had a firm white flesh inside.