Cordeles Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Souffle Casseroles Food

CORDELE'S THANKSGIVING SWEET POTATO SOUFFLE CASSEROLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Have ready two 1 1/2 quart round deep casseroles/souffle dishes.
• Cover potatoes with enough cold water to over them by 1" in a large pot.
• Bring to a boil and boil potatoes for 30-45 minutes or until tender, adjusting heat as needed.
• Drain, peel, and then place into a mixing bowl and using a mixed, beat them just until they are smooth (without overbeating or they will get gluey).
• Beat in the butter, sugar, eggs 1 at a time, flour, salt, and extracts until well combined.
• Put half of the mixture into each of the two souffle dishes.
• Mix together nuts,the brown sugar,and the cinnamon and sprinkle on top of each evenly.
• Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour.

SWEET POTATO SOUFFLE

Steps:

• For the souffle: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 2 1/2-quart baking dish with butter.
• Poke the sweet potatoes with a fork and bake on a foil-covered baking sheet until they are soft, 1 hour. When cool enough to handle, peel the potatoes, place the flesh in a large mixing bowl and mash until very smooth. Add the eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, milk and salt. Combine well with an electric mixer or hand mixer. Turn the mixture into the baking dish.
• For the topping: In a medium bowl, stir together the pecans, brown sugar, flour and butter until thoroughly combined. Spoon the mixture over the sweet potatoes, making an even layer. Bake the casserole until slightly browned, 40 minutes. Let the casserole sit for 5 minutes before serving.

SWEET POTATO SOUFFLE

Steps:

• Bake sweet potatoes in oven until soft 1 to 1 1/2 hours at 350°F Pierce with fork to test.
• Peel then mash with egg beater.
• Mix in each ingredient separately except for eggs and beat after each addition until light and fluffy.
• Separate the egg whites and yolks; throw away the yolks.
• In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites until they have medium peaks (the peaks should lean at about 45 degrees.).
• Pour the egg whites into the heavier base custard.
• Mix by lightly pushing down and pulling the custard up and over the egg whites using a sweeping "S" motion as you work.
• Pour into 15x10-inch Pyrex pan or two 9x13-inch.
• Mix topping ingredients together and sprinkle over sweet potatoes.
• Bake at 325°F for 25 minutes.
• This will puff up so don't have the pans too full.
• This freezes very well. If you use yams it is much dryer than using sweet potatoes.
• Full recipe serves 15.