One of the more underrated dishes you can serve as a Thanksgiving recipe is this coconut pecan sweet potatoes dish. It is a perfectly warm, sweet, crunch, and full or wonderful flavor that will leave you wanting more.
Not to mention, this is a wonderfully easy sweet potato recipe that you can make while your efforts could be needed elsewhere during the busy Thanksgiving prep! I love having a few dishes that I know will taste amazing but require a lot of work, and this is one!
When you make coconut pecan sweet potatoes you are getting a little bit healthier twist on the classic family recipe that everyone looks forward to.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our coconut pecan sweet potatoes, you need the following ingredients:
- Sweet potatoes
- Pecans
- Shredded coconut
- Sugar
- Brown Sugar
- Butter
- Cinnamon
- Salt
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
- Slow Cooker
- Non-stick Cooking Spray
- Mixing Bowl (Medium)
- Fork
- Cutting Board
- Chef Knife
- Spoon (Wooden)
How to Make Our Coconut Pecan Sweet Potatoes Recipe
- This recipe is such a simple recipe! Begin by getting out your slow cooker and spraying it down wth nonstick cooking spray. PRO TIP: By spraying it down with nonstick cooking spray you can keep the sweet potatoes from sticking and burning in the bottom of the pan. Or you can always use the slow cooker liners, they also make cleaning up a breeze!
- Once the slow cooker is prepped, place the peeled and diced sweet potatoes inside and spread them out evenly.
- Then, in a medium mixing bowl add the shredded coconut, brown sugar, white sugar, melted butter, cinnamon, and salt.
- Give all of that a good mix with a fork until it is well combined.
- Now, pour the pecan topping mixture over top of the sweet potatoes.
- Once all the ingredients are in the slow cooker, place the lid on and turn it on high and cook the potatoes for 3 ½ – 4 hours or until the potatoes are tender.
- Then, just serve them warm with the rest of your dinner!
Recipe Notes
Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same! While they have similar tastes and structure they are actually different. If you’d like to learn the differences between sweet potatoes and yams, Food & Wine does a great job explaining it!
With the holidays upon us, if you are like me you will find yourself at the grocery store often enough for more and more ingredients to make all of the delicious desserts. But, sometimes even with your best efforts you can either forget something or run out! That’s okay! However, it’s during those times where I learn the best hacks. Such as making your own brown sugar! If you happen to need to make your own too, take a look at The Kitchen’s recipe for how to make brown sugar at home.
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Coconut Pecan Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 sweet potatoes, Peeled and diced
- ½ cup pecans
- ½ cup shredded coconut
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch salt
Equipment
Instructions
- Place potatoes in a slow cooker that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
- Place pecans, coconut, brown sugar, white sugar, melted butter, cinnamon, and salt in a small bowl. Mix with a fork until completely combined.
- Pour pecan mixture over top of the potatoes.
- Cook on high for 3 ½ – 4 hours until potatoes are tender.
- Serve warm.
Notes
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My family are not yam/sweet potato lovers, I have tried other recipes to try to get them to like them with no luck. This year I tried your recipe but baked them in the oven, they all LOVED THEM! This will be our new recipe for Thanksgivings in the future!
Thank you.
Can you use canned sweet potatoes for this recipe?
Canned Sweet Potatoes are already cooked. The sweet potatoes in this recipe are not cooked and will be cooking on high for 3 1/2 hours. The canned sweet potatoes might be quite mushy by then.