Recipe: Tasty Sweet Potato & Wiener Gratin

Sweet Potato & Wiener Gratin. Sweet potatoes during the holidays are a must in our household. This time I decided to do something different other than a casserole or a pie. I used white sweet potatoes, but any sweet potatoes will do.

The sweet potato or sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are a root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens. You can cook Sweet Potato & Wiener Gratin using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sweet Potato & Wiener Gratin

1. Prepare of Sweet potato.
2. You need of Onion.
3. Prepare of Wiener sausages.
4. It's of Butter.
5. It's of White flour.
6. Prepare of Milk.
7. It's of Consomme stock granules.
8. It's of Salt and pepper.
9. Prepare of Pizza cheese.
10. Prepare of for frying Oil.

The sweet potato is not closely related to the common potato (Solanum tuberosum).. Sweet potatoes are available year-round, but their flavor peaks in the fall and winter. Alton recommends choosing specimens that are heavy for their size and free of any soft spots or sprouts. Sweet potato fries are also tasty, but don't eat them often.

Sweet Potato & Wiener Gratin step by step

1. Cut the sweet potato into 1-1.5 cm cubes and briefly soak in water..
2. Drain the sweet potatoes then add to a heat-resistant container, wrap, and microwave until soft. Smash while they're still hot..
3. Cut the wieners in half diagonally. Thinly cut the onions..
4. Add oil to a frying pan and cook the wieners. Once cooked through, remove for now..
5. Wipe the oil in the frying pan, melt the butter, and cook the onions..
6. Once the onions have cooked, stop the heat. Add flour and mix..
7. Add milk little by little. While mixing, increase the heat from low to medium. Add the soup stock and flavor with salt and pepper..
8. Add smashed sweet potatoes. Bring to a boil while mixing slowly to create a creamy thickness..
9. Once you have your desired creaminess, transfer to a gratin dish..
10. Cover with enough cheese so that the wieners are only slightly visible..
11. Cook in an oven toaster for about 5 minutes (just enough to become golden brown) and it's complete..

Baked sweet potatoes are the perfect, healthy side dish in the fall months. I like to simply eat it with some butter on top, a little goes a long way or try it with coconut oil to keep it dairy free. To save calories, omit all together and try sprinkling on cinnamon, cumin, chili powder or even pumpkin spice.. Go for thinner, uniform sweet potatoes. Although you may be tempted to pick the more meatier potato, thinner sweet potatoes will cook evenly all the way through to the center.