This easy vegan sweet potato mash is going to make your Thanksgiving or holiday feast complete!
Sweet potatoes are basically the perfect food because they're super nutritious, and equally delicious on their own. Mash 'em up with delicious spices, nutritional yeast, and some vegan butter? Now that's a side dish no one can refuse! It's creamy, sweet, and savory, AKA a perfect combination.
Sweet potato mash is a nice change from regular 'ol mashed potatoes. They also go great with all the other fixin's of a vegan holiday meal. Not sure where to start? Why not take a stab at creating my crazy holiday creation, the vegducken! I also have an ebook with some holiday recipes you won't find anywhere else. Check out hot for holidays here.
This sweet potato mash would also compliment the whole roasted cauliflower, green bean casserole, and stuffed vegan pork tenderloin too.
ingredients
- sweet potatoes
- salted vegan butter
- garlic
- nutritional yeast
- fresh or dried dill
- ground nutmeg
- sea salt
- ground black pepper
- pecans
People may snub their noses at your vegan mashed potatoes if they're not vegan, but that's why my recipe adds tons of flavor and swaps the dairy for vegan butter. It tastes the same and is just as rich. Tell no one of your vegan ways and I'm sure this sweet potato mash will get devoured!
In the video and recipe pictured here, I did leave the skin on the sweet potatoes. I find it's so tender that it mixes well into the sweet potato mash and doesn't muddle it up. I would never leave my skins on for regular mashed potatoes though.
how to make my vegan sweet potato mash
Chop sweet potatoes into even medium-sized pieces and add to a pot of boiling water. Cook until a fork can easily poke through them.
Once cooked, drain from the cooking water and mash with a potato masher.
Add vegan butter, minced garlic, nutritional yeast, dill, nutmeg, salt, and ground pepper and combine until smooth.
Place sweet potato mash in a serving dish and top with toasted chopped pecans.
equipment
- large pot with a lid
- potato masher
- sharp knife
- cutting board
- measuring cups and spoons
easy vegan sweet potato mash
Ingredients
- 8 C diced sweet potato (peeled or unpeeled)
- 6 tablespoon salted vegan butter
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh dill
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ground black pepper, to taste
- ⅓ C pecans, toasted and chopped
Instructions
- Boil a large pot of salted water and once at a rolling boil add the diced sweet potato. They should take approximately 10 minutes to cook until tender. Drain the potatoes and add them back to the pot.
- Add the remaining ingredients (except the pecans) and mash with a potato masher until smooth. Top with pecans and serve immediately!
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nice post...
Claire @ Stuffed Sweet Potato Monday
This looks great. I've flagged this for Thanksgiving this year ... think I might modify slightly by making "twice-baked" sweet potatoes and adding the mash back into the sweet potato shell. Thanks for the nice post! 🙂
Lauren Toyota
sounds like a cool idea!!!!
Alice
I made this for Thanksgiving tonight! It was awesome, I added extra of all the spices though, and also added some maple syrup into the crumbled pecans and the mash 😉 It was all gone by the end of dinner!! Everyone had seconds! Thanks Lauren <3 Btw -- 100% vegan dinner for 8 omnivore guests 😉
Shannon Hickman
Such a great recipe! This was a hit at my vegan Friendsgiving celebration!