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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 (211g) Recipe makes 10 servings The following items or measurements are not included below: 1/2 vanilla beans
Calories 279
Calories from Fat 121		(43%)
Amount Per Serving		%DV
	Total Fat 13.5g	20%
	Saturated Fat 8.4g	42%
	Monounsaturated Fat 3.7g
	Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5g
	Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 44mg		14%
Sodium 109mg		4%
Potassium 631mg		18%
Total Carbohydrate 37.2g		12%
	Dietary Fiber 5.4g	21%
	Sugars 7.6g
Protein 3.4g		6%
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Vanilla Bean-Whipped Sweet Potatoes

Recipe #264828 | 1 hour | 15 min prep | add private note

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By: Annacia
Nov 11, 2007

New York chef Gerry Hayden, contributed this side dish to a holiday meal. Everybody fell for the combination of creamy pureed potato and fragrant vanilla.

SERVES 10 (change servings and units)

Ingredients

4 lbs medium sweet potatoes
1 cup heavy cream
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 vanilla bean, slit lengthwise, seeds scraped
kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper or powdered sugar (to taste)

Directions

1
Preheat the oven to 400°.
2
Poke the sweet potatoes several times with a fork and bake for about 35 minutes, or until tender.
3
Let cool slightly, then peel and transfer them to a food processor.
4
Puree until fairly smooth.
5
In a small saucepan, combine the cream with the butter and the vanilla bean and seeds. Bring to a simmer.
6
Remove the vanilla bean.
7
With the processor on, carefully pour the vanilla cream into the sweet potatoes and process until smooth.
8
Season the sweet potato puree as desired with salt and pepper or sugar, transfer to a bowl and serve.

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From: Nati

On Nov 9, 2009

This came out of a Food & Wine magazine cookbook - I made it about 4 years ago for Thanksgiving, to great success. Just tried it again tonight; still just as good. I use half & half instead of heavy cream & it is delicious. Sometimes I like to separate the finished product in half & make it 2 ways: savory (salt & pepper) & sweet (brown sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon). Thanks for posting it, I was really happy to find it here since my cookbooks are in storage!

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From: Julie421511

On Apr 5, 2009

Wow, incredible! I cut the recipe in half for 2 of us and I used half skim milk and half, half & half to reduce some of the calories and milk. I also cut the butter amount in half. The potatoes were still pretty creamy. I love the addition of the vanilla bean! I would have never thought to put it in. It really adds a great depth to the potatoes without taking away its simplicity. This will be a keeper in my book! Thanks so much for posting!!

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From: 2Bleu (Bird&Buddha)

On Jan 2, 2008

This recipe made it into Favorite Finds of 2007 I don't know what to say except WOW! If I could give these potatoes 6 stars, I would. It has all the Simplicity, it's inexpensive (ok, worth the vanilla bean 10 times over), and is packed with flavor! Thanks for a dynamite keeper!

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From: Chef*Lee

On Dec 11, 2008

These are wonderful!! Definitely a gourmet Thanksgiving or Christmas highlight dish!!! I love the vanilla bean specks against the pretty light orange color of the sweet potatoes!! Be sure and bake the potatoes on foil because they have lots of sugar that bakes black and very impossible to get off of your baking sheets. I did not process these, I just mashed with a fork for some texture. I added 1/4 cup vanilla sugar that I keep and a pinch of salt to my cream mixture in the saucepan and blended until the sugar was dissolved then added to my mashed sweet potatoes. It was extra vanilla with the vanilla sugar!!!! Will definitely make these again, thanks so much for posting!!!!!

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