Mashed Sweet Potatoes are easy to make and a great side dish to all of your holiday meals! The recipe can easily be made vegan with coconut oil and unsweetened almond milk!
Ingredients:
- 4 pounds of sweet potatoes, peeled or unpeeled and washed, and cut into 2-inch pieces (or use yams)
- 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter (or coconut oil for vegan option)
- ½ cup whole milk (or unsweetened almond milk other milk substitute for vegan option)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- Pinch nutmeg
Instructions:
- Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Carefully add the sweet potatoes (or yams). Reduce heat to medium and cook, uncovered, for 15 minutes or until sweet potatoes are fork tender.
- Drain the sweet potatoes in a colander, shaking to remove all of the water.
- Place the sweet potatoes in a large bowl and add milk, butter, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.
- Use a potato masher or hand blender and mash the potatoes until desired smoothness. The hand blender will make the mash much smoother and might be good if you kept the skin on your potatoes. Add additional milk if necessary. Serve warm.