Paleo Sweet Potato Pie Recipe (Gluten-Free) - My Natural Family (2024)

FAQs

How do you make a sweet potato pie not stringy? ›

I addressed this issue with sweet potato pie by using the blender to make the filling. Blending the sweet potato puree with the heavy cream until smooth ensures that the filling is not stringy at all!

Sweet potato pie boasts the same creamy texture of other custard pies. While that does begin with ingredients, how you bake that pie really affects that final product. If you over-bake it, it becomes dense and loses its satiny mouthfeel; if you under-bake it, it will never set up to slice.

Then to make it essentially string free, push the hot sweet potatoes through a good quality kitchen sieve with the back of a large spoon. After cooking the sweet potatoes run them through a ricer. Boil them chopped into large portions - skin on with a slit in the skin for easy peel back.

All-purpose flour is an easy solution, as you're sure to have it in your pantry. Since it's lower in starch, you'll use more of it than you would higher-starch thickeners. Quick-cooking tapioca makes filling bright and clear, but also gives it a stippled and somewhat sticky texture.

AVA said that sweet potatoes contain flavonoids (a type of anti-oxidant), and water-soluble pigments which may cause colour changes. "The greenish colour can be due to a natural occurrence, when the water soluble pigments in the cooked sweet potatoes are exposed to air," AVA said.

Note: Sweet potato pie can be left at room temperature up to two days without refrigeration. Can be refrigerated up to one week and remain fresh.

Such recipes typically call for milk and eggs, which require immediate refrigeration, so if your pie is left out at room temperature for longer than two hours, it needs to be thrown out, according to the USDA. However, if the temperature is at 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, this time decreases to one hour.

Short periods at temperatures as low as 50 degrees F will not cause damage, but after a few days at 50 degrees F or shorter periods at lower temperatures, sweet potatoes may develop flesh discoloration, internal breakdown, off-flavors, hard cores when cooked, and increased susceptibility to decay.

The solution for watery casseroles is instant potato mash powder or cornflour - slake (mix with a little water) at first or it will go lumpy. Stir well.

Sweet potato pies usually contain milk and eggs, so they are essentially baked custard pies and should be stored in the refrigerator. Rule of thumb: If a pie contains milk, cream and/or eggs, refrigerate it. You'll also want to refrigerate pies containing evaporated or condensed milk products.

Can you cut off bad part of sweet potato? ›

Is it soft, wet, oozing, squishy, discolored, or sprouting? If yes to any, then toss it! If the sweet potato is firm and not sprouting, it's still fresh and safe to eat. If it's firm with only a few sprouts, you can cut the sprouted area off, then cook and eat immediately.

Keep the bowl in the fridge for up to 24 hours.

If you drain the potatoes and notice that they are turning brown, that they've started getting soft, or if they are slimy, you should discard them as they may be going bad. Don't leave the bowl out on the counter for longer than 1-2 hours.

These "strings" come from growing a potato in soil that is too fertile. The potato is a root and roots store nutrients. Grown in soil that is too fertile, sweet potato vines will grow fast and big and the result is long stringy roots (or potatoes).

No stringiness in good varieties regardless of conditions. Some particularly older varieties are prone to stringiness Which can be enhanced by stress during the growing season.

My sweet potatoes are long and thin. Is there something wrong with my soil? Too much nitrogen in the soil causes long, thin roots. When planting next season, don't improve soil in your sweet potato patch with anything that might add nitrogen (such as compost), and don't fertilize.

Eggs and cream help stabilize the dish and prevent it from becoming too runny (a common complaint with many sweet potato casserole recipes). Make it as smooth or chunky as you like!