Savory Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Name: Savory Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 , medium sweet potatoes, washed, dried, and lightly pricked with a fork in 3 places; 2 tablespoons, olive oil or vegetable oil; , Salt and ground black pepper; 5 tablespoons, unsalted butter

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1996

Side Dishes

Potatoes

Vegetarian

For moist flesh and soft, lightly caramelized skin, oil the potatoes before baking, place them on the middle rack in a 400-degree oven, and never turn them during baking.

SERVES4

TIME1¼ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted to find the perfect savory mashed sweet potato recipe, moist and flavorful. We pierced the potatoes’ skins with a fork and rubbed the potatoes with oil, then baked them on a foil-lined baking sheet set on the middle rack of a 400-...

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