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Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Cooking for Jeffrey (p.154)
Ingredients
- Sweet potatoes 4 lbs
- Whole milk 1 cup
- Heavy cream 1 cup
- Unsalted butter 4 tbl
- Chipotle chiles in adobo sauce 1 tbl
- Adobo sauce from can 1 tbl
- Maple syrup 1/2 cup
Prep
- Chipotle chiles - mince with seeds — look at you, operating like a highly paid adult.
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a sheet pan with aluminum foil. Place the sweet potatoes on the prepared sheet pan and pierce each potato 4 times with a small knife. Roast for 1 to 1 1/4 hours, until very tender inside when tested with a knife. Set aside until cool enough to handle. Leave the oven on. Peel the potatoes, discard the skins and place the potatoes in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, while resisting the deeply human urge to fuss with it nonstop. Meanwhile, place the milk, cream, chipotle chiles and adobo sauce in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes, it may look curdled. With the mixer on low speed, add the chipotle milk mixture to the sweet potatoes. Add the maple syrup, butter and 1 tbl salt. Mix until the potatoes are coarsley pureed. Pour into a baking dish and bake for 30 minutes, until heated through. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and serve hot.