Recipe: Perfect Southern sweet potato pie

Southern sweet potato pie. This Mississippi sweet potato pie is very popular in the South. It's a particular favorite at our house because we always have plenty of sweet potatoes in our garden. Try it with a dollop of whipped cream. —Bonnie Holcomb, Fulton, Mississippi.

Serve it warm or cold with a dollop of whipped cream. It's quite sweet, with a lighter texture than your typical sweet potato pie. If you like sweet potatoes and you have a sweet tooth, this one's for you!" Southern Sweet Potato Pie is a southern tradition for fall and Thanksgiving. You can have Southern sweet potato pie using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Southern sweet potato pie

It's 2 1/4 cup of sweet potato.
You need 3/4 cup of sugar.
Prepare 1/3 cup of brown sugar.
Prepare 2 of eggs.
Prepare 1 tbsp of cinnamon.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
It's 1/3 cup of softened butter.
It's 4 tbsp of all-purpose flour.
Prepare 1 of frozen deep dish pie crust.
You need 2/3 cup of evaporated milk.

It's a simple pie made from fresh sweet potatoes, sugar, eggs, flour In a buttery pie crust with a dollop of whipped cream, this southern dessert is a memorable one. Sweet potato pies have a very similar taste and texture to. Southern Sweet Potato Pie, Soul Food Style made completely from scratch! For my sweet potatoes, I use yams, which in the USA, are still sweet potatoes, but they have orange flesh.

Southern sweet potato pie step by step

Boil sweet potato until fork goes through the center cool and peel.
Mash sweet potato using mixer and add all ingredients except eggs and flour.
Taste to see if it's sweet enough then add your flour and eggs blend on high for two minutes.
Pour in to pie crust just below the rim.
Bake at 350°F for 30-45 minutes until fork comes out ALMOST clean.
Let it cool off then enjoy.

I think using yams makes a prettier sweet potato pie, because of the color. … Southern Sweet Potato Pie Recipe, made from scratch. … My Aunt Bessie, was one of my mothers sisters. Her family lived in another town from us You can certainly find a large variety of recipes for making Sweet Potato Pie. What makes this one any different you might wonder. I like the fact that it's. Sweet potato pie is certainly a southern favorite and super easy to throw together though, so why not make a homemade pie filling instead?