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Sweet Potato Casserole With Pecans baked in a white dish
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Sweet Potato Casserole With Pecans

This sweet potato casserole combines a smooth, lightly spiced sweet potato filling with a crisp brown sugar pecan topping. It is cozy enough for a holiday table but simple enough to prepare ahead, which makes it especially useful for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Cooling before eggs 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes
Servings: 10 servings
Course: Side Dish
Calories: 340
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Ingredients
  • 3 pounds sweet potatoes peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter for filling
  • 0.333 cup light brown sugar for filling
  • 0.5 cup milk
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 0.25 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 0.5 teaspoon fine salt
  • 0.75 cup chopped pecans for topping
  • 0.5 cup light brown sugar for topping
  • 0.333 cup all-purpose flour for topping
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter melted, for topping
  • 1 pinch salt for topping

Equipment

  • 1 9-by-13-inch baking dish
  • 1 Food thermometer

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Grease a 9-by-13-inch dish. Cover sweet potato chunks with water, bring to a boil and simmer about 15–20 minutes until easily pierced. Drain thoroughly.
    Sweet Potato Casserole With Pecans: Cook the sweet potatoes
  2. Mash with filling butter, brown sugar, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Let cool for about 10 minutes until warm rather than piping hot. Beat the eggs separately and stir them in evenly.
    Sweet Potato Casserole With Pecans: Mash the filling
  3. Combine chopped pecans, topping brown sugar, flour, melted butter and pinch of salt until crumbly. Do not taste mixture containing raw flour.
    Sweet Potato Casserole With Pecans: Mix the pecan topping
  4. Spread filling in prepared dish and sprinkle topping evenly over it. Bake about 35–45 minutes until center is set and reaches at least 160°F (71°C), and the pecan topping is golden. The cook-time estimate includes 20 minutes for potatoes plus 40 minutes baking. Cover loosely with foil if nuts brown before center is done.
    Sweet Potato Casserole With Pecans: Assemble and bake

Notes

This recipe has not yet been kitchen-tested by Tastewiser. Images are AI-generated illustrations. Times are estimates: use the stated temperature and doneness checks, and adjust for your equipment. Nutrition is estimated per serving from the listed ingredients; brands and portions change the result.
Refrigerate perishable leftovers within 2 hours (within 1 hour above 90°F/32°C). Use shallow containers at 40°F/4°C or below. Reheat leftovers to 165°F/74°C. Optional additions are excluded from nutrition unless listed as part of the main recipe.