Sweet Potato Bananas Casserole Recipes

WHIPPED SWEET POTATOES AND BANANAS WITH HONEY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Prick the sweet potatoes all over with a fork, put them in a roasting pan and roast for 30 minutes. Toss the bananas into the pan and continue roasting for 10 to 15 minutes, until both the bananas and potatoes are very soft. Remove the pan from the oven but don't turn the oven off.
• When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, scoop out the flesh into a large mixing bowl. Peel the bananas and add them to the bowl along with 1 stick of the butter, and the honey. Season with salt and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until everything's well combined and the mixture is fluffy. Spoon into an oven-proof serving bowl and smooth the top.
• In a separate mixing bowl, use your fingers to rub together the remaining stick of butter, the brown sugar, flour, and pecans until the mixture is the consistency of coarse crumbs. Sprinkle the crumb mixture over the sweet potatoes and return to the oven. Cook for about 20 minutes, until the crumbs are golden. Serve hot.

SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE WITH BANANAS

Steps:

• Scrub the sweet potatoes and then peel with a vegetable peeler. Cut the potatoes into chunks and put them in a large saucepan. Fill the pan with water to cover the sweet potatoes and add 1 teaspoon of salt.
• Place the saucepan over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and continue cooking for about 25 to 30 minutes, or until the potatoes are very tender. Drain thoroughly and transfer the potatoes to a large bowl. Mash until very smooth. Let the mixture cool slightly.
• Alternatively, bake the scrubbed unpeeled sweet potatoes in a 375 F oven for about 45 minutes, or until very tender. Let them cool, scoop the sweet potato out of the skins, and mash.
• Heat oven to 350 F.
• Grease a 2 1/2-quart baking dish.
• To the sweet potatoes, add the beaten eggs, brown sugar, orange juice, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Beat by hand or with an electric mixer until well blended. Fold in the diced bananas.
• Spoon the mixture into the prepared baking dish; cover with foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove the foil and bake an additional 10 minutes. Serves 6 to 8 Variations

BANANA SWEET POTATO CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 5x8-inch baking dish.
• Place sweet potato into a large pot and cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and mash sweet potato until smooth.
• Sift flour, white sugar, and baking powder together in a large bowl. Whisk eggs and vanilla extract together in another large bowl.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir pumpkin seeds and brown sugar in hot butter until brown sugar is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir bananas and mashed sweet potato into pumpkin seed mixture. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
• Stir banana mixture into egg mixture until well-combined. Pour banana-egg mixture into flour mixture and stir until batter is just combined; stir in raisins. Pour into prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour.

BANANA-ORANGE SWEET POTATO BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º. Place sweet potatoes in a large Dutch oven; add water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook, covered, just until tender, 12-15 minutes. Drain; cool slightly. Return to pan; mash with brown sugar, butter, salt, cloves and pepper until smooth. Stir in orange zest, orange juice and, if desired, liqueur. Add bananas and eggs; mix well. Transfer to a greased 2-qt. baking dish. For topping, mix granola, pecans, coconut and brown sugar; sprinkle over sweet potatoes. Drizzle with melted butter. Bake, uncovered, until heated through, 35-45 minutes.

MASHED SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE TOPPED WITH CARAMELIZED BANANAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet and roast until tender, about 1 hour. Remove from heat and let cool until cool enough to handle. (Keep oven at 350 degrees F). Peel and mash sweet potatoes in a bowl until smooth. Stir in the butter, stock, salt, pepper, and cinnamon. Transfer to a casserole dish. Cover the surface of the potatoes with the banana slices by laying them on top, slightly overlapping in concentric circles. Sprinkle the brown sugar evenly over the top. Bake for 20 minutes or until the top is browned.

SWEET POTATO-BANANA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Cook potatoes in small amount of water until tender.
• Mash and beat.
• Add nuts, 4 tablespoons butter, sugar and coconut. If the mixture is dry, add either a little cream or orange juice to moisten.
• Pour 1/2 of the sweet potato mixture into a buttered casserole.
• Cover with mashed bananas and then top with rest of sweet potato mixture.
• Combine crushed corn flakes, 2 tablespoons butter and brown sugar.
• Cover top of sweet potatoes.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

HAWAIIAN SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9x13-inch baking dish. Stir together the brown sugar and cinnamon until evenly blended; set aside.
• Place the sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil over high heat; reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until just tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain and allow to steam dry for a minute or two; peel and cut into 1/2 inch slices.
• Layer the potatoes into the prepared baking dish, dot with butter, and sprinkle with salt. Arrange the bananas over the potatoes and sprinkle evenly with the brown sugar mixture. Top with the crushed pineapple. Whisk together the pineapple juice, lemon juice, and honey until the honey has dissolved. Pour over the casserole.
• Bake in the preheated oven until hot and browned on top, about 40 minutes.

SWEET POTATO BANANA BAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine all ingredients until smooth. Transfer to a 1-qt. baking dish coated with cooking spray. , Cover and bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a thermometer inserted in the center reads 160°.

MASHED SWEET POTATOES AND BANANAS WITH PECAN STREUSEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Pierce sweet potatoes with fork. Place on rimmed baking sheet or in roasting pan and bake until almost soft, about 40 minutes. Add bananas to roasting pan alongside sweet potatoes and bake until banana skins brown, about 10 minutes. Let sweet potatoes and bananas stand at room temperature until cool enough to handle, about 15 minutes (maintain oven temperature). Cut sweet potatoes in half. Scoop flesh from sweet potatoes into large bowl. Peel bananas; add to bowl. Add 1/2 cup butter and honey; beat with wooden spoon until blended and fluffy. Season to taste with salt. Transfer to 8- to 10-cup ovenproof baking dish.
• Mix nuts, sugar, and flour in bowl. Add 1/2 cup butter; mix with fingertips until coarse crumbs form. (Potatoes and streusel can be made 1 day ahead. Cover separately; chill. Before continuing, preheat oven to 400°F.) Sprinkle streusel over potatoes. Bake until top is golden brown and potatoes are hot, about 25 minutes.