Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Jalapeño, Garlic, and Scallions

Name: Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Jalapeño, Garlic, and Scallions
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 pounds, sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced ¼ inch thick; 6 tablespoons, water; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces; 1 , jalapeño chile, stemmed, seeded, and minced; 2 , garlic cloves, minced; 1 teaspoons, sugar; , Salt and pepper; 2 , scallions, sliced thin

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2018

Side Dishes

American

Vegetables

We didn't want to mask the unique, earthy flavor of sweet potato. We wanted to highlight it.

SERVES4

TIME45 minutes

Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Jalapeño, Garlic, and Scallions

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted mashed sweet potatoes that actually tasted like sweet potatoes, which meant that we needed to maximize their flavor. To do this, we steamed the potatoes in just 6 tablespoons of water (rather than boiling them in a large volume of...

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