Pretty up your plate with mashed purple sweet potatoes! This delicious vegan recipe is a new way to serve up mashed sweet potatoes, with an incredible flavor that dances on the palate. Plus, this recipe for purple sweet potato couldn’t be any easier, whether for a weeknight or holiday spread!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Flavorful: You’ll love the way the ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom unite to create a new twist on mashed sweet potatoes.
- Moist: These vegan mashed purple sweet potatoes come out with a moist texture that everyone enjoys.
- Healthy: Mashed purple potatoes are nutritious and a colorful way to give your loved ones healthy options.
Nutrition For Mental Health
Purple sweet potatoes are packed with antioxidants, potassium, copper, manganese, as well as vitamins A, C, B5, B6, and niacin. A study found that dietary intake of vitamin C is associated with a lower risk of depressive symptoms.
Ingredients + Substitutions
Having trouble finding these ingredients in your pantry or at the store? Here are some ideas that can help you make this recipe work:
- Sweet potatoes: It can be hard to find purple sweet potatoes in certain locations. If you can’t find any, you could use orange or white sweet potatoes instead.
- Milk: This recipe for purple sweet potato uses oat milk, but you can use any plant-based milk, such as soy milk, unsweetened almond milk, or homemade cashew milk.
A full list of ingredients with exact amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
How To Make Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes
In less than 30 minutes, you can add this splendid side to your table. Just follow these four simple steps!
- Add sweet potatoes to a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15-20 minutes until potatoes are fork-tender.
- Drain potatoes and add to a mixing bowl. (Alternatively, you can use the pot they were cooked in.) Add oat milk, maple syrup, ground ginger, cinnamon, salt, and cardamom.
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- Mash with potato masher and stir until well combined.
- Serve with a drizzle of maple syrup or vegan butter on top with fresh herbs.
Servings Ideas
One of my favorite times to serve mashed purple sweet potatoes is during the holidays. You can serve it with other holiday sides like my vegan quinoa stuffing, green bean cranberry dish, vegan mashed potatoes, and vegan gravy. This recipe is also awesome with the best vegetable pot pie and desserts to finish it off, including eggless pumpkin pie and vegan apple pie. Don’t forget beverages everyone can enjoy, like my pomegranate water, cranberry lemonade, or orange spritz mocktail.
Storage Tips
Vegan mashed sweet potatoes can be kept in the fridge for up to 5 days. If you made enough for a crowd and can’t polish them off before then, seal them up and stow them in your freezer, where you’ll have up to 6 months to use them up. You could even separate them into portions for easy meal prep!
FAQ
Yes, you can mash any potato! Purple sweet potatoes have a slightly richer taste than other sweet potatoes, making for a delectable delight.
Of course you can! These purple sweet potatoes have a moister texture, making them a perfect choice for mashing.
Like other types of spuds, you can roast, steam, bake, mash, or even air-fry purple sweet potatoes.
Yes, they’re a healthy choice that provides ample amounts of vitamins A and C, plus plenty of antioxidants and minerals too.
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Recipe
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 cups purple sweet potato, cubed + water for boiling
- 1/3 cup unsweetened oat milk
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 3 teaspoons fresh ginger, minced (using a citrus zester works well)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2-1 teaspoon of cardamom
- 1 teaspoon salt, to taste
Instructions
- Add sweet potatoes to a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15-20 minutes until potatoes are fork-tender.
- Drain potatoes and add to a mixing bowl. (Alternatively, you can use the pot). Add oat milk, maple syrup, ground ginger, cinnamon, salt, and cardamom.
- Mash with potato masher and stir until well combined.
- Serve with a drizzle of maple syrup or vegan butter on top with fresh herbs.
Notes
Purple sweet potatoes are packed with antioxidants, potassium, copper, manganese, as well as vitamins A, C, B5, B6, and niacin. A study found that dietary intake of vitamin C is associated with a lower risk of depressive symptoms. Storage Tips
Vegan mashed sweet potatoes can be kept in the fridge for up to 5 days. If you made enough for a crowd and can’t polish them off before then, seal them up and stow them in your freezer, where you’ll have up to 6 months to use them up. You could even separate them into portions for easy meal prep!
Nutrition
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Reference
Wang, A., Luo, J., Zhang, T., & Zhang, D. (2021). Dietary Vitamin C and Vitamin C Derived from Vegetables Are Inversely Associated with the Risk of Depressive Symptoms among the General Population. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 10(12), 1984. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox10121984
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