Skinny Southern Sweet Potato Casserole

November 13, 2014
nyfoodgasm
Dessert, Food, Recipes, Sides, Uncategorized, Vegetarian

A traditional southern sweet potato casserole- kept all the yum and remove the excess fat and calories to remove the guilt!

I got some skills…. Fat cutting, flavor keeping skills! I’m not a self tooting horn usually, but in this case I shall toot toot away!

This skinny sweet potato casserole kicks some serious taste buds! I do it for me, but I mostly do it for you guys out there!

Ye asked and ye shall receive!

You guys told me via social media you were really looking forward to sweet potato casserole. You said you wanted some slimmed up classics.

So I got your back!

This recipe usually is a calorie killer- also loaded with carbs and fat. So I employed a couple of my own tricks to keep this recipe as true to the original but cut out the guilt!

It’s got HALF THE FAT, LESS CARBS and 172 calories less per serving!!

Time to do a happy dance!

I totally added this gif in honor of Fork and Good’s Emma!

Trick 1- this is not just sweet potatoes, I added half pumpkin purée. So right there I cut a whole lotta carbs. I sleiged them! Dead! Ps- you cannot tell at all! It tastes just like the original! Seriously, scouts honor!

Trick 2- cut out the extra butter and sugar. The original recipe called for a cup of butter and a cup of sugar for the filling alone. Yowsa! Seriously this was bad ya’ll! I refuse to ever use that much butter unless it’s a cookie. So I went with 2 tablespoons of butter, it was buttery enough, went with the third cup of sugar- totally sweet enough! Besides- it’s got candied pecan topping! I also cut out extra butter and sugar from the topping too!

Okay so you’re all like- why did you do this?! I love my casserole as is.

Well I love it too and I totally assure you this is jut as good. All that extra fat and sugar is fun, but there is a threshold where you cannot taste it anymore and it just doesn’t need to be there.

It’s like frosting a cake and then adding chocolate ganache on top-

Like a third nipple- who needs one of those? Pointless! (Having flash backs of Chandler’s third nipple on Friends)

So quit your whinning and try this recipe! Then you can crawl on back and tell me how it rocked your world!

Drooling yet??

Recipe skinnified and adapted from this recipe here.

What you need:

Sweet Potato Filling

4 small sweet potatoes, mashed
1 can pumpkin puree
2 eggs, beaten
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup lowfat milk
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/4 teaspoon pumpkin spice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Candied Pecan topping

1 cup pecans
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
3 tablespoons melted butter

How to make it

1- Preheat oven to 350º
2- Combine all ingredients for sweet potato filling in a bowl, place in a medium casserole dish, I used a 8″ circular dish.
3- Combine all ingredients for topping, sprinkle over the top of filling.
4- Bake 30-40 minutes until topping has browned.