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Savory Sweet Potato Casserole is afloat of onion, rosemary, and thyme and topped with crispy bacon and crunchy pecans. It besides is flavored with gruyere food and cayenne pepper. If you find accepted saccharine murphy casserole to beryllium excessively sweet, springiness this savory mentation a try. I deliberation you’ll similar it!
Savory Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Sweet potatoes are genuinely 1 of my favourite foods and I mostly similar them prepared successful a savory way. The emblematic saccharine murphy casserole,the 1 laden with brownish sweetener and topped with marshmallows that’s truthful fashionable for Thanksgiving, doesn’t truly entreaty to me. But I emotion for saccharine potatoes to beryllium a portion of our Thanksgiving meal. So alternatively I thought I’d effort a savory saccharine murphy casserole. Fresh herbs, bacon, and onions springiness this casserole tons of fantastic flavor. It’s a fantastic summation to a vacation table.
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How To Make
First I baked 4 ample saccharine potatoes successful the oven until precise soft, fto them chill slightly, peeled disconnected the skin, and mashed the pulp with a fork. I measured retired 4 packed cups into my mixing vessel on with 2 tablespoons butter, 1/3 cupful dense cream, an egg, astir 1/4 spoon cayenne pepper, and immoderate brackish and achromatic pepper. I bushed everything conscionable agelong capable to get it each smooth.
While the saccharine potatoes were baking, I cooked immoderate bacon, crumbled it, and acceptable it aside. I utilized the bacon grease to navigator a chopped onion. Is determination thing amended than the odor of bulb cooking successful bacon grease? Just earlier removing the bulb from the heat, I added immoderate caller thyme and rosemary and instantly my room smelled heavenly.
I stirred the bulb into the saccharine murphy substance on with fractional the bacon and 1/2 cupful shredded gruyere cheese. Into a casserole crockery it went. I past added a small much shredded Gruyere connected apical on with immoderate Panko crumbs and chopped pecans mixed with melted butter.
Thirty minutes successful the oven and a speedy broil to brownish the Panko crumbs and it was acceptable to beryllium served. I sprinkled the remaining bacon connected conscionable earlier serving. You tin ne'er person capable bacon. 
Wonderfully smooth, creamy, savory and conscionable a small spicy, service Savory Sweet Potato Casserole for Thanksgiving broadside crockery and prevention your saccharine bony for dessert!
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Savory Sweet Potato Casserole
Ingredients
- 5 medium saccharine potatoes or 4 large
- 5 slices bacon
- 1 medium saccharine oregon yellowish onion chopped
- 1 teaspoon chopped caller rosemary
- 1 teaspoon chopped caller thyme
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 cup shredded Gruyere cheese divided
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/4 cup Panko crumbs
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Bake saccharine potatoes until precise soft. Let chill somewhat and region and discard skin. Mash pulp with a fork and measurement retired 5 cups. Place successful a mixing bowl.
- While saccharine potatoes are baking, navigator bacon successful a nonstick skillet. Remove bacon, crumble, and acceptable aside.
- Pour disconnected each but 1 1/2 tablespoons bacon grease.
- Cook bulb successful bacon grease until soft, astir 10 minutes. Just earlier removing from heat, adhd rosemary and thyme.
- To mixing vessel with saccharine potatoes adhd 2 tablespoons butter, cream, egg, salt, pepper, and cayenne. Beat until smooth.
- Stir successful bulb mixture, 3/4 cupful shredded Gruyere cheese, and fractional the crumbled bacon.
- Transfer substance to a lightly greased casserole dish.
- Toss unneurotic melted butter, Panko crumbs and pecans.
- Top casserole with remaining gruyere and Panko crumb mixture. Bake astatine 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Broil conscionable agelong capable to brownish the Panko crumbs.
- Before serving apical with remaining bacon.
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Originally posted November 3, 2015. Updated with caller content.
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