Browned Butter Sweet Potato Casserole
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Sweet Potato Casserole – a classic fall recipe upgraded with rich browned butter!
Buttery mashed sweet potatoes are topped with crisp cornflakes and melty marshmallows and toasted. It must try side dish!
A Must Have Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe!
This sweet potato dish has the best of everything and just the right amount of contrast with it’s creamy sweet potatoes, gooey melty marshmallows and that finishing crisp you get from the cornflakes and crunchy pecans.
Simply put this casserole is heavenly!
Who know the word casserole and heavenly could ever go together in the same sentence but it just does with this one. Try it and see for yourself! It might just become a family favorite for your family too!
Can I Make This Ahead of Time?
For make ahead you can prepare the sweet potato portion the day before and refrigerate but wait until the following day to add the butter to the topping and wait to add the topping to the casserole until you’re just ready to bake and serve so it doesn’t go stale.
How to Make Browned Butter Sweet Potato Casserole
- Bake the sweet potatoes until tender and mash.
- Brown the butter in a saucepan.
- Add to sweet potatoes along with sugars and salt and mix.
- Blend in milk and eggs.
- Spread mixture into an even layer in a 13 by 9-inch baking dish.
- Mix cornflakes, pecans, and melted butter and brown sugar.
- Spread mixture into rows over sweet potatoes. Bake 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven, cool 5 minutes add marshmallows between cornflake rows and bake 5 – 10 minutes.
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Browned Butter Sweet Potato Casserole
Ingredients
Sweet Potatoes
- 5 lbs sweet potatoes
- 1/2 cup (113g) salted butter, diced into 1-inch pieces
- 1/2 cup (105g) granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup (55g) packed light-brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 large eggs
- 1/3 cup (80ml) milk (anything but skim)
Topping
- 2 cups (128g) crushed corn flakes*
- 1/2 cup (54g) chopped pecans
- 1/4 cup (55g) packed light-brown sugar
- 3 Tbsp (42g) salted butter, diced into 1-inch pieces
- 3 cups (148g) miniature marshmallows
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Pierce each sweet potato several times with a fork and transfer to a rimmed cookie sheet. Bake about 1 hour, or until very tender when pierced with a fork.
- Meanwhile melt 1/2 cup butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat and allow to brown, swirling pan occasionally.
- Remove potatoes from oven and reduce oven temperature to 350. Cut each in half and scoop out flesh into a large mixing bowl. Mash potatoes with a potato masher.
- Pour in 1/2 cup browned butter, using a rubber spatula to scrape excess butter from pan, add granulated sugar, 1/4 cup light-brown sugar and salt then using an electric hand mixer set on low speed, blend together until well combine.
- Add in eggs and mix until well blended, then pour in milk and mix until well blended. Pour mixture into a buttered 13 x 9 baking dish and spread into an even layer.
- Brown remaining 3 Tbsp butter in a saucepan. Pour crushed cornflakes into a mixing bowl, along with chopped pecans and 1/4 cup light-brown sugar and mix to combine. Pour browned butter over mixture and toss to evenly coat.
- Spread mixture into diagonal rows over mashed sweet potato mixture leaving about a 1 1/2-inch gap between rows. Bake in preheated oven (350 degrees) for 30 minutes (if it's browning too much near the end you can tent with foil if needed).
- Remove from oven and rest 5 minutes, then spread marshmallows between rows of corn flake topping. Return to oven and bake until marshmallows are melty and lightly golden if desired about 5 - 10 minutes. Serve warm.
Notes
- *Begin with about 4 1/2 cups cornflakes and crush to 2 cups.
- Note that if you are making this in advance to refrigerate then bake the following day, don't add the corn flake topping until baking or it will become stale. Also I'd recommend placing cold casserole in cool oven and let it preheat with oven.