This gluten free sweet potato recipe was made from an error. My husband went grocery shopping. Big mistake! Huge! I asked him to pick up some sweet potatoes for my mashed sweet potato recipe and neglected to tell him I wanted the red ones. He came back with yellow sweet potatoes, a cross between a regular potato and red sweet potatoes or yams. The yellow ones are not as sweet and I could not use them in the recipe I had in mind. I had to find a use for them. Oh well, yet another challenge for a new recipe, gluten-free, of course!
You can mash sweet potatoes, fry them, make au gratin potatoes or any other regular potato recipe of your choosing, though it will be just a tad sweet. You can follow any yam recipe, as well. I elected to mash them, but to dress them up a bit. I hope you like this recipe. I served it with a nice beef roast.
Gluten-Free Yellow Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Gluten Free Sweet Potato Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 lbs. yellow sweet potatoes
- water for boiling
- 1/2 + cup yellow onion, chopped finely
- olive oiling for sauteing
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese, loosely packed
- 4 Tablespoons butter
- 1/8 cup milk
- white pepper (black will do), to taste
- salt, to taste (I did not use any because the cheese contains enough salt.)
Instructions
- Cut ends off sweet potatoes; peel; and cut into 1″ cubes (as evenly as possible).
- Add potatoes and enough water to cover them; bring to a boil; low to simmer and cook until tender, about 40 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking, saute onion in a pre-oiled, preheated skillet until translucent; add garlic powder and nutmeg on top of onions; stir and saute for another 30 – 60 seconds; set aside.
- Add cooked potatoes to food processor; add cheese, butter, milk, onion, and pepper on top. Pulsate until creamy and no remaining chunks are left. Taste; add salt and more pepper, if needed.
