Take your mashed potatoes up a notch or two by using flavorful sweet potatoes and spiking them with a dash of smokey, spicy chipotle peppers.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time25 minutesmins
Course: Dinner, Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Total Cost: $2.12 recipe / $0.35 serving
Servings: 6
Ingredients
2 lbssweet potatoes about 2 medium, $1.69
2Tbspmilk $0.04
2Tbspbutter $0.10
2Tbspbrown sugar $0.04
2peppers chipotle peppers in adobo $0.20
to taste salt and pepper $0.05
Instructions
Peel and cut the sweet potatoes into one inch cubes. Place them in a medium pot and cover with water.
Bring the pot up to a boil. Continue to boil the potatoes until a fork inserts easily into the potatoes (about 7-10 minutes). Drain the potatoes in a colander and return them to the pot (turn off heat). While the potatoes are boiling, roughly chop two chipotle peppers.
Add the milk, butter, brown sugar and chipotle peppers to the potatoes. Mash and mix the ingredients until smooth. Taste and add salt and pepper to your liking.