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Pecan Topped Sweet Potato Casserole is always a welcome guest at the holiday table. People aren’t quite sure if it’s a vegetable or dessert!
We’ll be spending the holiday with the four kids and about 40 of Jim’s family in Utah. We volunteered to host dinner. Fortunately my lovely niece is letting me use her house and kitchen! I also have some amazing sister in laws and my mother in law who have volunteered to help!
Today’s recipe is one that was shared with me about 25 years ago by Jim’s Aunt Dawn. When the boys were little we spent Thanksgiving with them one year and she served this delicious sweet potato casserole. I love family recipes. Not only are they usually some of the best recipes but I love using them and thinking about the family member who shared it with me. Several of my favorite recipes have come from Aunt Dawn. And although we don’t see her often, I think of her each time I make one of her recipes.
Not only is this recipe delicious but it is a great make ahead dish which helps cut down on the work and stress of the actual day. Make it a day or two ahead of time and just keep it in your refrigerator. Then warm it in the oven and you will have a perfectly delicious sweet potato casserole.
This sweet potato casserole recipe uses canned sweet potatoes. After you drain them, you can mash them to your desired consistency. Leave them lumpy if you like lumpy and smooth if you like smooth! The addition of cinnamon, orange juice and brown sugar make for a nice sweet sweet potato!
After filling your 1 1/2 to 2 qt. dish arrange a pretty layer of pecans on the top.
And then some more brown sugar and butter on top – yum!
Then bake away. The butter and sugar form a nice sweet, crunchy topping.
Even if you think you don’t like sweet potatoes give this recipe a try. What’s not to like about butter, brown sugar and pecans!?!?!
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Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Pecan Topped Sweet Potato Casserole
Ingredients
- 44.5 oz canned sweet potatoes 1 large can (29 oz) and 1 small can (15.5 oz), already peeled
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 C brown sugar
- 1/4 C butter melted
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 C orange juice I used reconsituted
Topping:
- 1 C pecan halves
- 1/2 C brown sugar
- 1/4 C melted butter
Instructions
- Drain and mash canned sweet potatoes to your desired consistency.
- Into mashed sweet potatoes beat in eggs, brown sugar, butter, salt and cinnamon.
- Add orange juice until mixture is moist and fluffy.
- Put in 1 1/2 – 2 qt. baking dish.
- If making ahead you can refrigerate at this point.
- Before baking arrange pecan halves on top, sprinkle with brown sugar and drizzle butter over top. Bake uncovered in 375 oven for 20 minutes or until heated through.
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Jessica says
What is reconstituted orange juice?
Leigh Anne says
Frozen orange juice that water has been added to, as if you were going to drink it
Naureen says
My Lord, I just went through the recipe again and noticed that it says RIGHT UP TOP that it’s a good make ahead recipe. I’m sorry for the trouble!
Leigh Anne says
No worries!
Naureen says
Hi!
Is this a good make-ahead recipe? Or is there any part of this recipe that could be made ahead?
Thank you so much!
Meghan says
Would this recipe still work with butternut squash? My uncle makes the sweet potatoes every year and no one would mess with his recipe! 🙂 Id like to bring something besides sweet potatoes, and this just looks too good to pass up!
Leigh Anne says
I have never tried it but it’s worth a try! Let me know how it works.
LINDA says
HI, I’d love to win the covered casserole dish!
Thanks for sharing a yummy recipe too!