Free Recipe Sweet Potato and Pear Puree
Recipe Type: S Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Ingredients for Sweet Potato and Pear Puree Recipe
5 lb Sweet potatoes
6 tb Unsalted butter, room
-temperature
4 lg Bartlett pears, firm but
-ripe, peeled, cored & cut
-into 1/3 thick slices
3/4 c Pear nectar, canned
1/4 c Sugar
1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
1/4 ts Ground cardamom, generous
Sweet Potato and Pear Puree Preparation
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Butter 13x9x2 glass baking dish. Pierce potatoes in several places with fork. Place on baking sheet; bake until very tender when pierced with a knife, about 1 hour. Remove from oven. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees. Meanwhile, melt 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet over medum-high heat. Add pears; saute until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add 3/4 cup nectar; bring to simmer. Reduce heat tomedium-low; cover and simmer until pears are very tender, stirring often and adding more nectar if mixture sticks to skillet, about 4 minutes. Transfer to processor and puree. Peel sweet potatoes; place in large bowl of electric mixer. Add 4 tablespoons butter; beat until smooth. Mix in pear puree, sugar, cinnamon and cardamom. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to prepared dish. *** Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Bake potatoes uncovered until just heated through, about 20 minutes. Recipe by: Bon Appetit, November 1994 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #376, by bearhair@ripco.com (Bearhair) on Fri, 17 Jan 1997.
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Recipe Serves: 8
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