Sweet Potatoes with Brown Sugar Pecans
These Sweet Potatoes with Brown Sugar Pecans have the perfect amount of sweetness and sauce. Just a few ingredients and you have an easy side dish to go with just about anything.
Ingredients
Sweet Potatoes
- 3 medium sweet potatoes or yams, peeled and sliced in rounds, about 1/4 inch thick
- 3 tbsp packed brown sugar
- 2 tbsp melted butter
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- pinch of salt
- non-stick cooking spray
Pecan topping
- 1/2 cup fine chopped pecans
- 1/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tbsp melted butter
- 1 tbsp flour, all-purpose or gluten free can be used
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
Instructions
For the potatoes
- Preheat oven to 375°F and prepare a 2 quart square baking dish by coating with non-stick cooking spray.
- Place sliced potatoes in a large bowl and add the rest of the potato ingredients. Toss to combine. You'll start to see a sauce form.
- Place potatoes in the prepared baking dish and cover with foil. Bake for 45-50 minutes until the potatoes are almost fork tender. You'll still want a little firmness to them.
Mix topping
- Mix all ingredients in a small bowl until well combined. Set aside until potatoes are finished cooking.
- When potatoes are cooked, remove from the oven and top with pecan mixture, and marshmallows if using them. Put back in the oven, uncovered, for 10-15 minutes to toast the pecans and finish cooking the potatoes. I like my potatoes to have a little bite to them, not mushy, but you can cook them to your liking. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
Nuts- If you don't like nuts or pecans you can just leave them off. Or replace the pecans with your favorite nut.
For extra sweetness- If you like the traditional marshmallow topping. Add a few mini marshmallows to the top after you've added your nuts for extra sweetness. Between 1/2-1 cup.
This recipe serves 5 generously but could easily feed 6.
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy only and should be understood as an estimate rather than a guarantee. The Menu Maid makes no guarantees to the accuracy of this information.