Southern sweet potato pie. Sweet potatoes are whipped until light and fluffy in this sweet treat. Serve it warm or cold with a dollop of whipped cream. This is a very unique sweet potato pie recipe, given to me by my mother.
You can have Southern sweet potato pie using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Southern sweet potato pie
- It’s 2 1/4 cup of sweet potato.
- You need 3/4 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of brown sugar.
- Prepare 2 of eggs.
- It’s 1 tbsp of cinnamon.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It’s 1/3 cup of softened butter.
- Prepare 4 tbsp of all-purpose flour.
- It’s 1 of frozen deep dish pie crust.
- You need 2/3 cup of evaporated milk.
Southern Sweet Potato Pie, Soul Food Style made completely from scratch! For my sweet potatoes, I use yams, which in the USA, are still sweet potatoes, but they have orange flesh. I think using yams makes a prettier sweet potato pie, because of the color. Brown Butter Sweet Potato Pie Recipe.
Southern sweet potato pie instructions
Boil sweet potato until fork goes through the center cool and peel.
Mash sweet potato using mixer and add all ingredients except eggs and flour.
Taste to see if it's sweet enough then add your flour and eggs blend on high for two minutes.
Pour in to pie crust just below the rim.
Bake at 350°F for 30-45 minutes until fork comes out ALMOST clean.
Let it cool off then enjoy.
Browning the butter with spices lends a deep, nutty flavor to this Southern classic. If your sweet potatoes are at all stringy—which can happen sometimes, especially with larger sweet potatoes—you will need to pass them through a food mill or sieve. This is a classic Southern sweet potato pie made with a rich sweet potato filling. It's a spectacular pie for a holiday dinner, especially when it's topped with a If desired, partially bake the pie shell. For a frozen or store-bought pie crust, see the package instructions.
