Brown Butter Sage Sweet Potato Mash Recipes

BROWN BUTTER SAGE SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• Peel sweet potatoes and cut into 1/2-inch cubes. Place in a medium saucepan with whole garlic cloves and broth. Add water as needed to just cover the sweet potatoes.
• Bring sweet potatoes to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until sweet potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the sage-infused brown butter. Finely chop sage. Add butter to a small skillet and heat over low heat, stirring, until butter is golden. If you listen carefully, the butter will stop crackling when it is browned. Add sage and stir, then turn off heat.
• Drain sweet potatoes, reserving 1 cup of the cooking liquid. Add browned sage butter, salt and pepper. Use a potato ricer or masher to mash sweet potatoes until smooth, adding cooking liquid as needed until the desired consistency is reached.
• Serve hot. Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

BROWN BUTTER SWEET POTATO MASH

Steps:

• Pierce 4 sweet potatoes with a fork. Microwave until softened, 12 minutes. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over medium heat and cook until brown flecks appear. Add 3/4 cup milk, 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla; heat until warm but not boiling. Peel the potatoes and puree in a food processor with the warm milk, adding up to 1/4 cup more milk if needed. Top with lemon zest.

SPIRALIZED BROWN BUTTER SAGE SWEET POTATO

Steps:

• Cut sweet potato into spaghetti-like ribbons with a spiralizer.
• Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add sweet potato ribbons; cook, stirring often and adding more oil to prevent sticking, until starting to soften, 6 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
• Heat butter in the same skillet until melted and foaming, about 1 minute. Add sage leaves; swirl until butter is a rich caramel color and leaves are crisp and dark green, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove sage leaves from the butter. Add sweet potato; stir to coat well.
• Season sweet potato with salt and garnish with crisp sage leaves.

BROWN BUTTER MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Peel the potatoes, rinse in cold water and cut into fourths. Place the potatoes in a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook until fork-tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Meanwhile, add the butter to a saucepan over medium heat. Allow the butter to brown, 2 to 3 minutes, being careful not to burn it. Swirl the pan as you go, stopping when the solids turn medium to deep golden brown.
• Drain the potatoes, then return them to the pot. With the burner on low heat, mash the potatoes with a potato masher; the more steam that's released while you mash, the better. Mash for about 5 minutes. Turn off the burner.
• Add the cream cheese, half-and-half, cream, some salt and pepper and three-quarters of the brown butter to the pot and stir to combine. If the mixture needs thinning, add some milk. Check the seasonings, adding salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle the remaining brown butter over the top. Sprinkle with fresh parsley.

SAGE & BROWN BUTTER MASHED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Add potatoes to a large pot and fill pot with water, just enough to cover the potatoes. Salt the water with a tablespoon of salt. Cover and bring water to a boil. Once boiling, remove cover and cook for another 15 to 20 minutes, or until potatoes are very tender.
• While the potatoes boil, add 3 tablespoons of butter to a small sauce pan. Place over medium heat and cook until butter browns, but doesn't burn. Remove from heat and add sage, remaining butter, and heavy cream. Set aside.
• Remove potatoes from water (but do not discard the water!) and place into bowl of stand mixer. Add butter and cream mixture. Pulse mixer with paddle attachment to mash the potatoes. If you don't have a stand mixer, simply use a potato masher to achieve this.
• Once potatoes are mashed, add 1 or 2 teaspoons of salt (to taste). Mix on low to combine, or use a wooden spoon to combine. If potatoes are too dry, add a little of the reserved potato water until desired consistency is reached. Place in serving dish and serve immediately.

SWEET POTATO AND SAGE-BUTTER CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Place sweet potatoes and potatoes in a large saucepan; cover with water, and season with salt. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 9 minutes. Drain; pass through a ricer into a bowl.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt 1 stick butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, swirling occasionally, until golden brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from heat; add 2 tablespoons sage. Stir butter mixture and milk into potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a 2-quart casserole dish. (Mixture can be refrigerated for up to 2 days.)
• Combine breadcrumbs with 2 tablespoons melted butter and remaining 1/2 tablespoon sage. Season with salt and pepper. Toss to combine.
• Top potato mixture with breadcrumbs. Bake, uncovered, until bubbling around edges and breadcrumbs are golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes. (If browning too quickly, tent with foil.) Let stand, uncovered, for 10 minutes.

MASHED SWEET POTATOES WITH SAGE BUTTER

Steps:

• Cover sweet potatoes with water in a 2-quart heavy saucepan and add salt. Cook, covered, over moderately high heat until tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Reserve 1/4 cup cooking liquid, then drain sweet potatoes in a colander. Transfer sweet potatoes and reserved cooking liquid to a bowl and mash with a potato masher.
• Mash together butter, sage, and salt and pepper to taste, then stir half of sage butter into sweet potatoes. Serve potatoes topped with remaining sage butter.