Sweet Potato Casserole with Canned Yams

This Southern Candy Potato Casserole with Canned Yams is a straightforward facet dish for Sunday dinner and holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. It makes use of canned yams, saving you the time you’d use to prep recent yams or candy potatoes. Make this forward of time and tick one merchandise off the vacation meal to-do record. 

Why Make Candy Potato Casserole utilizing Canned Yams

There are such a lot of causes to make this scrumptious casserole. Listed below are my prime few:

Simple facet dish with easy substances: This casserole is straightforward to make and makes use of easy substances, but it makes all of the distinction on the Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner desk.

Makes use of canned yams to save lots of time: It saves time and vitality through the use of canned yams (or canned candy potatoes), so that you don’t need to undergo the difficulty of boiling, draining, and peeling kilos of candy potatoes.

Substances Wanted

Including this scrumptious facet dish to your Thanksgiving desk doesn’t require a lot. Right here’s what you’ll want to assemble for this straightforward recipe: 

Candy potato casserole filling

Canned candy potatoes: I picked these up from the grocery retailer. Mine got here with water as the primary ingredient; they didn’t embody corn syrup. I drained and rinsed these. I discovered a big can, however you may as well use a few cans of candy potatoes (or yams) so that you’ve the identical whole ounces as I exploit within the recipe card. 

Sweetener: I used a granulated sweetener that may be a one-to-one substitute for normal granulated sugar.

Natural heavy whipping cream (heavy cream)

Floor cinnamon

Floor nutmeg

Vanilla extract

Eggs: Room temperature

Brown sugar streusel topping

All-purpose Flour

Rolled oats

Chopped pecans 

Floor cinnamon

Brown sugar

Melted butter: Salted

How To Make Candy Potato Casserole With Canned Yams

Listed below are the 4 easy steps for this candy potato casserole recipe with canned yams:

Add the drained candy potatoes and different casserole filling substances to a meals processor or blender. Combine till included. 

Pour the candy potato casserole filling right into a sq. baking dish (I used an 8×8, however you need to use one other smaller rectangular dish).

Add the primary 5 streusel topping substances (every part besides the butter) to a small bowl (use a fork to combine).

Pour the melted butter into the streusel topping substances and blend with a fork to create a crumbly texture. Add the streusel to the highest of the casserole, and bake uncovered at 350 for 35-40 minutes or till you’ll be able to poke with a toothpick into the middle and it comes out clear.

Recipe Suggestions & FAQs

Under are invaluable ideas for a straightforward candy potato casserole recipe:

Although I exploit a meals processor, you may as well use a stand mixer or different electrical mixer like an electrical hand mixer with a big bowl

Whipping cream various: It’s also possible to use sweetened condensed milk, however make sure you regulate the sweetener (granulated sugar) to style by including the eggs to the combined filling final.

To sweeten a dessert to style: Add the substances (aside from the eggs) for the candy potato casserole combination to a meals processor bowl and mix. Style and see should you’d like so as to add extra sweetener. Combine within the eggs after it’s sweetened to your choice.

Nut-free choice: Omit the chopped pecans from the topping for a nut-free choice, or use seeds like salted sunflower seeds.

To cease the topping from being too toasty: You may cowl the casserole with aluminum foil over the past 5-10 minutes to stop the crunchy topping from burning or turning into too brown. 

Toppings:

I want a crunchy pecan topping, however, you don’t have to make use of a streusel topping in any respect. Another choices are:

Mini marshmallows or common marshmallows: add these earlier than baking as an alternative of streusel

A scoop of ice cream: Add this earlier than serving

A dollop of whipped cream: Add this earlier than serving

Storage and Leftovers

Retailer leftover candy potato casserole in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 5 days, or freeze it. 

FAQs

Extra Canned Yams Thanksgiving Recipes

Under are extra canned yam recipes so as to add to your Thanksgiving menu. Some use canned yams, whereas in others you’ll be able to substitute canned yams for recent candy potatoes or recent yams:

Different Casseroles For The Vacation Season

Along with this scrumptious candy potato casserole, you’ll additionally wish to add a few of these facet dishes to your vacation menu: