Does anyone have a great recipe for mashed sweet potatoes with toasted mini marshmallows on top?
My sister used to bring them every Thanksgiving and she would bake the sweet potatoes first and peel them before she mashed them. They were absolutely delicious!
I never learned her recipe before she died in February 2017. :0(
There’s no real recipe to it, just cook the sweet potatoes [they’re best if oven roasted but you can also microwave them in a covered bowl until soft.]
Slice them up to even sizes and pour melted butter mixed with just a little lemon juice on top, sprinkle with brown sugar or maple syrup, depending on how much a sweet tooth you have, then add the marshmallows, and bake until the marshmallows are toasty.
Some people might add cinnamon but we never did. If you like the vanilla from the marshmallows you can add a bit of vanilla to the butter and sugar mixture.
A lot of people mash the sweet potatoes but that always turned me off, my mom pretty much just very coarsely cut them up into big chunks mainly just so they would form an even layer so the marshmallows wouldn’t toast unevenly. It’s real simple.
Probably the easiest and most flavorful version would be go rustic and oven or fire roast the sweet potatoes until very soft, slit the tops and mash the insides with a fork, then add the butter/sugar/lemonjuice mixture and mash a little more. Arrange in a baking pan and spread them open a bit and top each with marshmallows and toast. Oven roasting in the skins always tastes better than peeling them first, and if you want you can discard the skins after the first bake and just mash them all together.