Making mashed sweet potatoes only requires four basic ingredients and takes 40 minutes. For a beautifully sweet and easy holiday or fall side dish that the whole family will enjoy, boil them until they are cooked, add warm milk, and mash until smooth and creamy.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- 6 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
- ¾ cup warm 2% milk, or as needed
- ½ cup softened butter, cut into chunks
- ¾ cup maple syrup, or to taste
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add sweet potatoes, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer until tender, 20 to 30 minutes. Drain and transfer to a bowl.
- Mash potatoes with a potato masher. Slowly mix in 1/2 cup warm milk at a time until desired consistency is reached. Stir in butter and maple syrup until well blended and butter is melted. Serve warm.
- Try brown sugar or honey in place of maple syrup if desired.
- Please note differences in ingredient amounts and total time when following the magazine version of this recipe. The magazine version includes cracked black pepper and chives as garnishes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 353 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 51 g |
| Cholesterol | 43 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Sodium | 160 mg |
| Sugars | 32 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
The only change I made was to bake the sweet potatoes (I had the oven going baking bread) and I prefer baked to boiled sweet potatoes. It was a hit. This was gobbled up in no time and already requested again. It was a smidgeon too sweet for me so I would cut back a little on the maple syrup in the future, but still very good.
I did modify a few ingredients based solely on our personal taste. I cut back the maple syrup and just didn’t think this needed that much butter. I also whipped the potatoes with my hand mixer instead of using a potato masher. I have a number of mashed sweet potato recipes that I make, and honestly, they all taste pretty much alike. These certainly were good, and a recipe I’d make throughout the year.
I really enjoyed these sweet potatoes! I drained the potatoes and added the butter first. Then I slowly added the milk until I liked the consistency. It was less than called for. Then I added the maple syrup, a little at a time, until I liked the sweetness. Again, a little less than called for. This is an easy recipe to make to suit one’s own preferences.
Very easy and tasty recipe! I cut the recipe in half since it’s just my husband and I at home, and there were still enough leftover for another couple of meals. I did cut down on the maple syrup and milk since my sweet potatoes mashed super easily and already seemed to have a lot of liquid from the melted butter. Will definitely be making it again!
Just made it for dinner and it came out good with very little brown sugar And butter. I will make it again.
The milk made it a soupy mess. Would not recommend adding it. Just stick with the butter
I just started preparing meals now that I am retired, so always looking for healthy recipes. This recipe confirmed that simple can be better. I did not add the maple syrup – the potatoes were sweet enough on their own. My potato cubes only took 15 minutes to be ready for mashing. As a side notes, I learned that boiled sweet potatoes retain more of the vitamins than roasting or baking them. My husband (a trained chef) loved them which I served alongside grilled lemon rosemary chicken breast and asparagus spears. Easy weeknight meal, even for me – the novice cook at 63 yrs old!!
I added a little bit of cinnamon to mine. Use real maple syrup.
To make a plant based version, I used orange juice instead of milk and vegan butter.
Very simple recipe. Here some details how I did it to clarify the proportions: 4 pounds of sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch slices. Boiled for about 15 min, then drained and mashed with 1 stick of cold butter (4 ounces), 6 ounces of warm milk, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Added 1.5 tablspoons of brown sugar, which was a little too much, but still tasted good. Next time I would add 1 teaspoon at a time, until you can taste the flavor. This amount was more than sufficient for a group of 20 people, as one of many side dishes. If you make this instead of regular mashed potatoes, the above would probably only serve 10-12 people.
So easy and decedent ! I put them in the food processor, little butter & maple syrup, then put into a pan and into the oven. Cooked off a bit of the liquid I had left. OMG everyone LOVED them!!!!
My potatoes are now soup-like. Read the ingredients fully.
Used less butter, less syrup, and did not cook potatoes in salt. Still very good.
I cooked mine with vanilla, cinnamon, and brown sugar. I cooked everything else the same. It’s delicious!
this is perfect, i boiled the sweet potatoes whole, and after they cooled the skin came right off. i did 1/2 stick butter, 1/4 c of syrup, but i did something different, i had some mccormick cinnamon sugar i used a little of that perfect. thats the way to do it.
Came out well. Just enough maple syrup to make it pleasantly sweet.
Delicious. I added a dash of Irish whiskey for a bit more flavor.
12-26-21 These were delicious.
So tasty, even a picky eater liked it!
Honey was used instead of maple syrup
Makes for such a nice fall side dish. I followed advice of the other users using only half the butter and maple syrup with scratch the milk and added a touch of cinnamon!