foodchickie's chipotle smashed sweet potatoes
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Hello fellow Chefs! This recipe is very easy to prepare. The steamed sweet potatoes have a great mouth feel and temper the chipotle pepper in a way that makes the dish more savory than spicy. Those of you who love a little heat will love this recipe. This recipe can be increased you suit your needs. Just a note. Do not be fooled: Chipotles have a Scoville Unit Rating of 15,000 which 5,000 units hotter than your medium-hot Crushed Red. Please remember to use gloves when cooking with chilies.
(1 rating)
yield
6 with leftovers
prep time
15 Min
cook time
20 Min
Ingredients For foodchickie's chipotle smashed sweet potatoes
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2 lgsweet potatoes (washed and peeled)
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1 1/2 Tbspbutter
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1chipotle pepper in adobo sauce (minced)
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1 tspadobo sauce (from can)
How To Make foodchickie's chipotle smashed sweet potatoes
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1Cut washed and peeled sweet potatoes into 1 1/2 to 2 inch pieces.
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2Place sweet potatoes in a steamer basket and put in stock pot with water 1 inch below steamer basket. Cover and Steam over medium-high heat for 20 minutes or until fork tender.
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3Take steamer basket with sweet potatoes out of stock pot and empty water.
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4Turn heat to low and dump sweet potatoes into stock pot and add butter.
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5Smash with potato masher slightly* then add chipotle pepper and adobo sauce and mix thoroughly with a spatula or wooden spoon. *Potatoes will be slightly lumpy, you don't want them smooth (unless you like your sweet potatoes that way). Be sure the chipotle is mixed in well as you don't want a mouthful of this pepper.
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