Sweet Potato Boats

  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
  • Servings: 6
  • About This Recipe

    “This makes a great fat-free side-dish. You can substitute chopped apples for either the raisins or the cranberries.”

    Ingredients

  • 3sweet potatoes
  • 1cupcranberries
  • 1/4 cupraisins
  • 1/2 cupwalnuts
  • 2tablespoonshoney
  • 1teaspooncinnamon
  • Directions

  • Bake the sweet potatoes in their skins.
  • Allow them to cool.
  • When the potatoes are cool, slice them in half lengthwise and gently scoop out the flesh, leaving behind enough to hold the shell together.
  • In a food processor, grind the cranberries.
  • Then add the raisins, walnuts, honey, cinnamon and the reserved sweet potato and process until well mixed.
  • Mound the filling back into the sweet potato shells and bake in a 350°F oven for 20 minutes.
  • If the potatoes are large, slice each boat in half before serving.
  • Reviews

  • “Sorry Mirj but I over baked the sweet potato so the boat wouldn’t float – The skin just fell off the potato so I did it as a casserole and it was delicious.I will make this again and make the boat float. It will look so attractive”

  • “a little too sweet. might try without cranberries.”

  • “This was a hit at Thanksgiving.Just sweet enough and low fat. thanks Mirj. “

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