Whole food with flavor is what flies around here.
If it’s sweet, it’s even more popular. If it’s something I can grow or produce on the homestead, I’m golden.
That’s why this recipe for sweet potatoes with homemade butter and brown sugar is a go-to recipe we use time and again. It’s easily adjusted for different diets, and if you don’t want to use brown sugar, you can easily substitute a sweetener that works with your diet.
This recipe is gluten-free also!
I was first introduced to this southern recipe staple when I moved from Denver to New York to begin my writing career. We stopped in Arkansas, at a restaurant outside of Little Rock, for dinner, where I had a local fish dish. As a side dish, the plate included one of these sweet potatoes.
And I was converted.
The taste was unlike anything I’d experienced. The starchiness of the potato mixed with the creaminess of the butter and the added sweetness of the sugar combined to produce an incredible memory.
(Looking back, too, we entered the restaurant at 9:30PM, and I bet the staff was pretty annoyed since they were preparing to close the restaurant! Luckily, I’m a fast eater).
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I participated in Mom2Mom Monday Link-up #23, the Sunday Social Blog Hop, Tasty Tuesdays, and Mis-Adventures Monday blog hop!
Maat van Uitert is a backyard chicken and sustainable living expert. She is also the author of Chickens: Naturally Raising A Sustainable Flock, which was a best seller in it’s Amazon category. Maat has been featured on NBC, CBS, AOL Finance, Community Chickens, the Huffington Post, Chickens magazine, Backyard Poultry, and Countryside Magazine. She lives on her farm in Southeast Missouri with her husband, two children, and about a million chickens and ducks. You can follow Maat on Facebook here and Instagram here.
Oh man, sweet potatoes are my absolute favorite!
This looks surprisingly easy. Yum!
My hubby loves sweet tators! Thanks so much for sharing on the (mis)Adventures Mondays Blog Hop. I look forward to seeing what you will share next.