Healthy and Savory Sweet Potato Casserole for Christmas and Thanksgiving Dinner

5 from 16 votes

Sweet Potato Casserole is a savory, creamy, garlicky side dish topped with crunchy toasted honey-glazed walnut & almonds topping.

Prep Time15

Cook Time30

Total Time45

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Side Dish

Cuisine: Canada, North America, southern

Servings:

Calories: 236kcal

Author: Kushi

Cook sweet potatoes by adding them in boiling water along with garlic cloves and salt until they are tender.
4 cups Sweet Potatoes, peeled and chopped ( 3 medium to large), 3 to 4 Garlic cloves, finely chopped, 1 tablespoon Salt
Use your preferred method to cook sweet potatoes. You can microwave or bake and then mash.

When the potatoes are boiling, in another pan, melt butter. Add milk, pepper flakes, chile powder, and mix to combine. Switch off the flame
2 tablespoon Butter, 1 cup Milk, 1 teaspoon Red chile flakes, 1 teaspoon Paprika or Red chile powder
Please do not boil the milk. We just want it warm in the recipe. Check out the video here

Once the sweet potatoes are tender, drain the water completely and let it cool.
Now mash them as much as possible or to the consistency that you like in your final dish.
Add the buttery milk mixture in parts until the sweet potatoes absorb all the milk. I do not like to add all the milk at once because I prefer to stop before the sweet potato mixture becomes too liquidy.
Add spring onions and mix to combine.
1 tablespoon Spring onion

Add almonds, walnuts, oil, honey, salt, pepper flakes, spring onion, and mix well to combine.
½ cup Almonds, chopped, ½ cup Walnuts, chopped, 1 tablespoon Olive oil or Vegetable Oil, 2 tablespoon Honey or Maple syrup, ¼ teaspoon Salt, ½ teaspoon Red pepper flakes, 2 tablespoon Spring onions or Chives

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Spread your prepared mashed sweet potato filling into a baking dish. I have used a 7 by 5-inch dish.
Top it with the honey-glazed almond walnut mixture.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or just until topping is toasted and becomes crunchy (do not burn them).
Serve it warm and enjoy!!!

You can use pecans instead of walnuts and almonds. Vary the amount of nuts to taste.
Spring onions can be substituted with chives and/or rosemary
Honey can be substituted with maple syrup.
Vary the amount of red chile flakes to taste in both filling and topping. You can use cajun seasoning too :-)
To make this vegan, simply use oil in place of butter and any dairy-free milk of your choice instead of milk.
During fall & winter, you can even add the pumpkin spice mix to the filling if desired.
Fan of bacon? Feel free to add crispy bacon bits too.