Christmas Baked Apples with Mashed Sweet Potatoes
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Recipe type: Side dish
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Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
  • 3 medium sweet potatoes
  • ½ teaspoon orange zest
  • 2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg, grated
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • Salt and pepper
  • 8 apples, peeled and cored
  • ½ cup simple syrup** or maple syrup
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
  1. Wash and cook the sweet potatoes in a saucepan with water to cover until they are tender. Peel them and pass them through a ricer or mash them with a potato masher.
  2. Add orange zest and juice, sugar, butter, nutmeg, milk, salt and pepper. Combine well and reserve.
  3. Preheat the oven to 325ºF.
  4. With the tines of a fork, make diagonal indentations in the apples. Fill them with the sweet potatoes, and put them in a baking pan.
  5. In a small bowl mix simple syrup and lemon juice. Pour over the apples, and bake for 45 minutes, basting with the cooking juices every 15 minutes or so.
  6. **To make simple syrup: in a small saucepan combine ½ cup sugar and ½ cup water. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar, and continue boiling for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat. Cool the syrup. You may keep this in the fridge.
Recipe by PERU DELIGHTS at https://perudelights.com/christmas-baked-apples-with-mashed-sweet-potatoes/