Name: Baked Sweet Potatoes with Pecans Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 5 medium sweet potatoes; ½ cup brown sugar; ¾ tsp Cinnamon; ¼ tsp nutmeg; ½ tsp kosher salt; ⅛ tsp ground black pepper; 6 tbsp unsalted butter; ½ cup sugared pecans

How To Make Baked Sweet Potatoes with Pecans

Try out these twice baked sweet potatoes topped with sugared pecans and brown sugar! They’re easy-to-bake, and make a filling side dish for any big meal.

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 1 hour 15 minutes

Total: 1 hour 30 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

5medium sweet potatoes
½cupbrown sugar,packed, plus some for sprinkling
¾tspcinnamon
¼tspnutmeg
½tspkosher salt
⅛tspground black pepper,coarse
6tbspunsalted butter
½cupsugared pecans,chopped

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
wash, scrub and dry the sweet potatoes.
Pierce the sweet potatoes with a fork.
Bake them for 60 to 75 minutes or until tender when pierced with a fork.
Cut off the top ⅓ of the potato lengthwise, then scoop out the insides, leaving a ¼-inch wall thickness of the sweet potato.
Add the scooped out sweet potatoes with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, black pepper, and butter to a food processor. Combine until smooth.
Put the mixture back into 4 potato shells, then top with brown sugar and pecans.
Bake for 15 to 18 minutes.
Serve warm, and enjoy!