This ought to be dessert. It is excellent! This classic holiday meal is enhanced by the crunch of walnuts and the sweet flavor of raisins.
| Servings: | 9 |
| Yield: | 8 to 10 servings |
Ingredients
- 6 large sweet potatoes
- 1 (15 ounce) can apricot halves
- 4 apple – peeled, cored and sliced
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- ½ cup raisins
- 2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
- In a large soup pot, boil potatoes until soft. Add sliced apples just 5 minutes before potatoes are done. Remove from heat. Drain.
- In a large casserole dish, mix potatoes and apples. Dot with butter. Sprinkle brown sugar, walnuts, and raisins on top of potato mixture. Pour apricots over top.
- Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 467 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 99 g |
| Cholesterol | 7 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 12 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 192 mg |
| Sugars | 45 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Sooo tasty! I tried with apricots but I like using OJ instead. Both ways are delicious though! Will try with cranberry next time.
delicious and easy. heart healthy too.
Followed the recipe step by step and turned out to be delicious. Everybody in my family loved it, including my great great children!
I didn’t make with apricots but this was great! I might try to add a marshmallow topping in the future. A great blend of the two textures of the sweet potato and the apples.
Mine was a little different I mashed the potatoes and apples together. I’ll have to give it another shot.
This was delicious. I used 3 large sweet potatoes and 2 large honey crisp apples and it filled a 9×13. Left skin on apples and it didn’t seem to matter. Apricots added a nice tart taste to counter the sweet potatoes and apples. Like apple crisp but healthier. Easy and delicious! Next time I’ll add cinnamon to the brown sugar mix.
Everyone loved it, going back for seconds. I used peach chunks, as could not find the apricots. I will definitely make it again
This is delicious and a great change from the mashed and sugary sweet potatoes. I left off the apricots but added a 1/4 cup of water to replace the syrup from those. Also added a sprinkle of cinnamon and covered with foil to bake. Put it all together the night before and refrigerated until time to bake. A real hit at a neighborhood Thanksgiving potluck!
Yummy ingredients but next time I am going to bake the potatoes, apples and walnuts in the brown sugar. Then add raisins and nectarines for the last 5 minutes of baking. The canned fruit and golden raisins are already sweet and don’t need the extra sugar.
No recipe changes were made. Very good result. The directions for controlling the amount of liquid in the dish were a bit unclear. Overall, though, a winner.
It will be a new family Christmas dish. Easy and so good even my kids liked it.
My nephew LOVED IT!
I love this recipe and it was very simple. I used the peaches as others had and it was delicious. The only changes I will make is that the walnuts need to be roasted before they are added and I will double the raisins!
Delicious. Partnered this up with some nice Rib Eye for valentines day. Switched out the apricot with peaches. A glorious meal. Thanks for the recipe.
My family loves sweet potatoes and I thought this recipe would be the best but it was a dud. Perhaps I left the sweet potatoes too large but the entire dish was bland. I won’t be making this again.
Great recipe! It’s not too sweet that it isn’t a good side dish. My husband loved it and I will make it again. It went great with pork chops!
This is delicious and the fruit adds a very nice addition in terms of flavor and textures. First time I made it I used canned sweet potatos because it was all I had but second time, I used fresh sweet potatos that were peeled and cubed, then covered the casserole dish with foil. The texture of the potatos was firmer and the flavor overall was better. Definitely give this a try!
Husband and guests really liked it – I mixed all the ingredients together (but used less sugar) then put the nuts on top and sprinkled with honey as more of a crust.
All 8 people who ate them gave them high marks!
This came out so savory! My friends tasted it first and loved it. I didn’t use apricots, apples, or raisins. Instead, I went for cranberries, pomegranates, cinnamon sticks, and more butter (Earth Balance with olive oil). See above photo.
What a wonderful, healthy dish and so easy to make. We’ve had it twice for Thanksgiving now and everyone raves about it. I would definitely recommend doubling the walnuts, brown sugar and raisins. It makes for a delectable, well-versified dish. I think it’s going to becoming a tradition for our family!