Brown Butter Sage Sweet Potato Mash

Elevate your sweet potato side dish with this savory brown butter sage sweet potato mash! It’s easy enough to serve on a weeknight, but fancy enough for a holiday side dish! (gluten-free, nut-free, vegetarian)

I might be slightly obsessed with sweet potatoes. I think I could eat them for every meal and not get tired of them. But I also tend to forget about them.

Don’t take it personally, sweet potatoes, I forget about most things these days.

While I love baked or roasted sweet potatoes for an easy side dish, sometimes I feel like eating something a little more fancy that’s not made with the same familiar spices. Like, umm, cinnamon.

That’s where this brown butter sage sweet potato mash comes in. It’s savory, super flavorful and a nice break from the sweet, cinnamony kind of sweet potatoes that are usually abundant this time of year.

What makes these mashed sweet potatoes special is the sage-infused brown butter. Sounds fancy, but it’s super easy to make, and it makes this sweet potato mash super delicious.

How do you make brown butter?

Easy. It’s just like it sounds. Heat butter in a skillet until it turns brown. Watch it though, you don’t want it to burn (then it would be black butter and so not yummy.)

To make it sage-infused, just add some chopped fresh sage and let it sizzle. Cooking the sweet potatoes in broth with a couple cloves of garlic adds an extra dimension of flavor.

What is the best way to mash sweet potatoes?

I like to use a potato ricer or potato masher with extra small holes to make this sweet potato mash extra fluffy, but you can use a standard potato masher, hand mixer, or stand mixer to mash the sweet potatoes if you’d like. Add in some of the starchy cooking liquid until you reach a silky smooth consistency.

This delicious brown butter sage sweet potato mash makes a wonderful weeknight side dish with chicken or pork tenderloin. It’s also equally as stunning as a holiday side dish with a ham or rib roast. It’s so tasty that nobody will ever know that it is so easy to make!

Brown Butter Sage Sweet Potato Mash

Elevate your sweet potato side dish with this savory brown butter sage sweet potato mash! It’s easy enough to serve on a weeknight, but fancy enough for a holiday side dish! (gluten-free, nut-free, vegetarian)

• Author: Kaleigh
• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 25 minutes
• Total Time: 35 minutes
• Yield: 4 servings 1x
• Category: side dish

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Ingredients

• 2 medium sweet potatoes
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 cup  vegetable broth
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tsp fresh sage
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• Freshly cracked black pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Peel sweet potatoes and cut into 1/2-inch cubes. Place in a medium saucepan with whole garlic cloves and broth. Add water as needed to just cover the sweet potatoes.
2. Bring sweet potatoes to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until sweet potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, make the sage-infused brown butter. Finely chop sage. Add butter to a small skillet and heat over medium-low heat, stirring, until butter is golden. Add sage and stir, continuing to cook until butter is a deeper brown but not burned. Turn off heat.
4. Drain sweet potatoes, reserving 1/2 cup of the cooking liquid. Add browned sage butter, salt and pepper. Use a potato ricer to mash sweet potatoes until smooth, adding cooking liquid as needed until the desired consistency is reached.
5. Serve hot. Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Notes

Recipe can easily be doubled.

Keywords: side dish, sweet potatoes, brown butter

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