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Browned Butter Savoury Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Candy Potato Casserole in contrast to any you’ve seen earlier than! Creamy savoury mashed candy potato with pockets of browned butter, a crunchy parmesan-breadcrumb-sage topping sprinkled with crumbled bacon. Sinfully decadent and unapologetically wealthy, no marshmallows in sight!!!
Mashed potato bake is a facet dish made for vacation gatherings like Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter, and Sunday Suppers with household and buddies. Make forward and feeds hundreds!
Candy Potato Casserole
I’m past excited to share with you this candy potato casserole!! I imply, plain mashed candy potatoes have a spot on this world – for on a regular basis midweek meals.
However think about the probabilities while you mash up candy potato with parmesan, bitter cream and butter, swirl it right into a baking dish with drizzles of browned butter, prime it with a crunchy parmesan breadcrumb topping suffering from crunchy bits of sage THEN end it with crumbled bacon…….
The scent when it’s baking within the oven, that insane golden crunchy topping calling so that you can crack via it and reveal that sinfully creamy, butter mashed candy potato beneath…
Right here she is. Calling your title!!
In the event you’re new to mashed potato bakes, welcome to your new obsession. It’s not simply sensible – reheats 100% completely, simply nearly as good made forward as it’s contemporary on the day.
And it’s additionally outrageously scrumptious. I’m speaking OMG-I-feel-sick-but-I-can’t-stop-eating-it good (and that’s a direct quote from a pal).
What you want for candy potato casserole
Right here’s what you want. Nothing nothing uncommon right here. Don’t have sage? Skip it, use one other herb or dried herbs as a substitute (choices within the recipe).
Tips on how to make it
Roast it, mash it, swirl it, drizzle it, sprinkle it, bake it.
Psst. Scoring a mouthful of candy potato with a totally sealed pocket of browned butter inside appears like profitable the lottery. It’s a swoon worthy second that you simply simply have to hope for. You can not sport the system.
Crunchy on the highest, creamy beneath, the contrasting textures is among the issues that makes this SO GOOD!!!
What to serve with mashed candy potato bake
It is a dish that’s designed for making forward and sharing with household and buddies. I’ve special day meals in thoughts as a result of it’s slightly….ummm (she subtly coughs)….let’s assume indulgent than your on a regular basis potato sides? Only a wee bit extra butter than your on a regular basis mash? 😇
I see it alongside a grand roast turkey, a golden turkey breast dripping with herb & garlic butter. Alongside essentially the most excellent Standing Rib Roast (Prime Rib), a Pork Roast with essentially the most unimaginable juicy flesh and impossibly crispy crackling. A collapse sluggish roasted lamb shoulder, or a wonderfully cooked lamb leg that’s blushing pink on the within.
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Get pleasure from! – Johnsat x
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Ingredients
- 1.75kg / 3.5lb sweet potato (3 large or 6 smaller ones)
- 1/2 cup (115g) sour cream
- 1/2 cup (50g) parmesan , freshly grated
- 2 garlic cloves , finely minced
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 250g / 8oz butter , salted, cut into 2cm/1″ cubes
- 15 sage leaves (Note 1)
- 3/4 cup panko breadcrumbs (Note 2)
- 1/2 cup (50g) parmesan , finely grated
- 1/4 tsp each salt and pepper
- 150g / 5oz bacon , streaky, cooked until golden then finely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F.
- Place potatoes on a foil lined tray. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes (small) to 1 hour 40 minutes (large) until knife can be easily inserted into the centre.
- Cool potatoes until they can be handled (but still piping hot inside!) or use tea towel to handle.
- Meanwhile, place butter in a large silver saucepan over medium heat.
- Once melted and starts to foam, add sage leaves. Cook 1 minute or until golden brown, then fish through the foam to find the leaves and drain on paper towels (will crisp when cool).
- Continue to leave butter on stove until foam dies down and you see black bits on the bottom of the pan (it will smell nutty).
- Strain through paper towel lined sieve – should have 180ml or so.
- Crumble sage leaves in your hand (chop if not fully crisp) and place in bowl.
- Add 1/4 cup Browned Butter, panko, parmesan, garlic, salt and pepper, mix.
- Cut slits down the middle of the potatoes then scoop flesh out into a bowl.
- Add 1/4 cup Browned Butter (below), sour cream, parmesan, salt and pepper. Mash or use electric beater to mash until smooth (if using food processor, be careful not to overdo as it will make potato gluey).
- Place half the potato in a baking dish (2 litre / 2 quarts). Make swirls across surface with spoon (as catchment for butter!), then drizzle over 1/4 cup Browned Butter. Cover the butter pools with remaining potato – the less you disturb the butter, the better!
- Sprinkle over Topping. Bake 25 minutes until top is golden brown and edges are bubbling.
- Sprinkle with crumbled bacon, then bake a further 5 minutes. If you've got any leftover butter, drizzle it on then serve!
Notes
1. Sage – sage and browned butter is a classic flavour combo. If you don’t have fresh, feel free to add about 1/2 tsp mixed dried herbs into the topping. Or just skip the herbs – there’s certainly plenty of flavour in this dish as it is!
2. Panko breadcrumbs – larger pieces than normal breadcrumbs which creates a really nice extra crunchy topping. Pretty common nowadays, found in the Asian section of supermarkets here in Australia. Can sub with normal breadcrumbs.
3. Baking dish size – 20x28cm / 8 x 11″, 2 litres / 2 quarts, or thereabouts.
Make ahead – assemble all except bacon. Fridge 2 to 3 days, then bake, sprinkle with bacon, bake again! Can also bake to make it golden then while still warm on the inside, just pop it back in for a few minutes at end to reheat the topping 🙂
4. Nutrition per serving. Thought the calculator would explode from all the butter in this! But actually, this is higher cals than reality because you lose a lot of butter in the sage cooking/draining and straining process. 250g/8oz butter yields 180g/6oz browned butter (minor liquid evaporation is very minor)
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