This could be a dessert or a vegetable dish. They are delicious and simple to make. At a family reunion, I tried these and immediately went looking for the maker to ask for the recipe.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 16 dumplings |
Ingredients
- 2 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent rolls
- 32 ounces frozen sweet potato patties
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- ½ cup margarine
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Unroll crescent rolls and lay flat on a work surface. Cut sweet potato patties in half. Roll 1 half-patty in a crescent roll, stretching dough to cover patty completely and make a dumpling. Repeat with remaining patties and rolls.
- Place walnuts in a plate. Dip dumplings into nuts, pressing down to coat the top. Place coated dumplings in a 9×12-inch glass baking dish, nut-side up.
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Combine water, sugar, margarine, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a heavy saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat just until sugar and margarine are dissolved, 3 to 5 minutes. Pour sauce over dumplings in the baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until bubbling, 20 to 25 minutes.
- This can be easily halved. I also have made these appetizer-sized by cutting the crescent rolls in half and quartering the potatoes to yield 32 pieces.
- Feel free to use any nuts you like.
Reviews
I made this for Thanksgiving. A couple of notes: the frozen sweet potato patties I found came in packets of 8, and 32oz is two packets for a total of 16 patties. Each can of crescent rolls contains 8 crescent rolls, so 2 tubes equals 16 rolls. Put a full sweet potato pattie in each crescent roll. You also need to bake this about 15-20 minutes longer than this recipe says. The top of the rolls baked like crescent rolls, the bottom stays kind of doughy because it’s immersed in the liquid -it’s supposed to be this way (just an FYI). These are superbly delicious. Easy to make. Definitely a special occasion dish for me, and I think it has already been voted into our regular Thanksgiving rotation.
Want to experience something besides the traditional apple dumplings? These sweet potato ones were a hit! My local grocery store doesn’t carry sweet potato patties, so I bought sweet potato tater tots. I used 2 and rolled the dough up. They have that rich dessert flavor great for the fall weather.