Try these aromatic maple whipped sweet potatoes, featuring chai-inspired notes that make it a delightful side dish for tonight’s dinner or your holiday menu. Using purple sweet potatoes it adds a beautiful visual impact, plus provides a nutritious, delicious option that family and friends will love.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Nutritious: Whipped purple sweet potatoes give you and your loved ones a bounty of nutrients, all packaged in a deliciously tasty format.
- Fluffy: Nothing says, “help yourself to seconds” like fluffy whipped sweet potatoes!
- Sweet: While purple sweet potatoes are naturally sweet, adding maple syrup and key spices from your spice rack brings that sweetness out even more.
Nutrition For Mental Health
Cinnamon is packed with antioxidants. An animal study found that cinnamon intake improved depression symptoms [1]. A clinical trial found that ginger consumption alongside SSRIs reduced anxiety in patients with generalized anxiety disorder [2].
Ingredients + Substitutions
While there are only a few ingredients needed to make whipped vegan sweet potatoes, you can find help for something you might be missing right here.
- Milk: Unsweetened oat milk is my go-to for these dairy-free whipped sweet potatoes, though don’t worry if you don’t have it. You can use any unsweetened dairy-free milk option you have in your fridge.
A full list of ingredients with exact amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
How To Make Whipped Purple Sweet Potatoes
This purple and pretty side dish is easy to whip up any time, taking roughly 20 minutes to get on the table.
- Add chopped sweet potatoes to a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are fork-tender.
- Drain potatoes and add to a mixing bowl (or use the pot as a mixing bowl). Add milk, maple syrup, ground ginger, cinnamon, salt, and cardamom.
- Whip with a hand mixer until well combined and silky smooth.
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- Serve with a drizzle of maple syrup or vegan butter on top with fresh thyme.
Servings Ideas
Maple-whipped sweet potatoes pair well with just about any meal, from weeknight dinners to holiday feasts. You can serve it with vegetable chili, pumpkin chili, or veggie pot pies for a hearty meal any night.
For the holidays, you can also add roasted carrots and sweet potatoes, plant-based stuffing, vegan garlic mashed potatoes, and vegan gravy. Start the feast off with beetroot hummus for an appetizer, and then after dinner, gather your guests around for mini banana bread muffins, banana pecan muffins, and vegan sweet potato pie. Refreshments are key too, and my orange spritz is a mocktail that even the youngest guests at the table can enjoy.
Storage Tips
Whipped vegan sweet potatoes need to be kept in the fridge once they’ve cooled. You can enjoy them for your meals for up to 5 days after that, and if you’d like to stow it for meal prep or to have it accessible after a crazy day, your freezer has you covered. Freezing these whipped sweet potatoes will keep them for up to 3 months.
FAQ
Yes, you can mash purple sweet potatoes, and I highly recommend that you do! They are as easy to mash as any other type of potato, and that purple color is just so beautiful to present in your favorite serving bowl.
Purple sweet potatoes are an excellent option for mashing. They come out with a wonderfully creamy texture that’s hard to resist.
Purple sweet potatoes feature a milder, more balanced sweetness compared to traditional orange sweet potato varieties. The best way to describe them is nutty and earthy, and paired with the right spices and a touch of maple syrup, it has just the right combination to delight.
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Recipe
Whipped Sweet Potatoes
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 cups purple sweet potato, washed, peeled, and cubed (+ water for boiling)
- 1/3 cup unsweetened oat milk
- 3 tablespoons vegan butter
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 3 teaspoons fresh ginger, minced
- 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon of cardamom
- 1 teaspoon salt, to taste
Instructions
- Add chopped sweet potatoes to a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are fork-tender.
- Drain potatoes and return to the pot. Add milk, maple syrup, ground ginger, cinnamon, salt, and cardamom.
- Whip with a hand mixer until well combined and silky smooth.
- Serve with a drizzle of maple syrup or vegan butter on top with fresh thyme.
Notes
Cinnamon is packed with antioxidants. An animal study found that cinnamon intake improved depression symptoms [1]. A clinical trial found that ginger consumption alongside SSRIs reduced anxiety in patients with generalized anxiety disorder [2]. Storage Tips
Whipped vegan sweet potatoes need to be kept in the fridge once they’ve cooled. You can enjoy them for your meals for up to 5 days after that, and if you’d like to stow it for meal prep or to have it accessible after a crazy day, your freezer has you covered. Freezing these whipped sweet potatoes will keep them for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
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Reference
[1] Aryanezhad, M., Abdi, M., Amini, S., Hassanzadeh, K., Valadbeigi, E., Rahimi, K., Izadpanah, E., & Moloudi, M. R. (2021). Cinnamomum zeylanicum extract has antidepressant-like effects by increasing brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its receptor in prefrontal cortex of rats. Avicenna journal of phytomedicine, 11(3), 302–313.
[2] Ataei, S., Jahangard, L., Anaraki, S., Dastan, D., & Khazaei, S. (2025). Investigating the effect of ginger as an adjunctive treatment along with SSRIs to reduce anxiety in patients with GAD: A clinical trial study. Current Psychiatry Research and Reviews, 21(2), 177–185. https://doi.org/10.2174/266608222501230925112657
These are so good!