Delicious Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Sweet Onions

Categories: Vegetables-Potatoes

Ingredients

• 3 large or 4 medium sweet potatoes
• 1 large or 2 medium Vidalia sweet onions
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2 Tbsp. salted butter
• 1/4 cup cream cheese
• 1/8 tsp. pepper
• 1/8 tsp. garlic powder

Directions

1. Fill a pot of water, adding 1/8 tsp. of salt, and bring to a boil.

2. As you wait for the water to boil, peel the sweet potatoes and cut into 1-inch cubes. Set aside.

3. Peel off the outer layer of the sweet onions and dice. Set aside.

4. When the water starts boiling, add to it the sweet potatoes and sweet onion.

5. Boil until tender when knife inserted in the sweet potato slips in easily.

6. Pour sweet potatoes and sweet onions into a strainer to drain. Do not rinse, and reserve a half-cup of the water.

7. Place pot back on the burner and heat on medium-high. Add butter to melt. Add drained sweet potatoes and sweet onions to pot.

8. Using a potato masher or ricer, mash the potatoes and onions with the butter until creamy. Then add in the cream cheese by continuing to mash them.

9. Add 1/8 tsp. of salt, pepper and garlic to the pot and mix with a wooden spoon.

10. . Taste, and adjust salt and butter as needed.

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