Sweet Potatoes

Posted by: Sue Freeman 08-17-99 7:32 PM

Sweet Potatoes Caribbean

Source: Doug Cooper

2 lbs sweet potatoes or yams, peeled and quartered
5 Tablespoons butter
Zest of one Orange
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 cup Heavy Cream
1 tsp Cinnamon
Salt and Ground Black Pepper; to taste
1 Jalapeno, roasted, skinned and chopped very fine


Preheat oven to 350.

Simmer potatoes in lightly salted water until tender.

Drain potatoes well; put in a shallow baking pan and put in oven to dry potatoes out; approx. 15 to 20 minutes.

Remove from oven and put in a bowl.

Using a hand masher; not an electric beater; mash potatoes.

Add butter, zest of one orange; brown sugar; cinnamon; salt and pepper to
taste.

Fold in cream and jalapeno.

Serve.

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