Recipes By Course - Breads
Ingredients
- 2 small sweet potatoes, peeled and cut in approximately 2-inch chunks
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 egg white
- 1/3 cup safflower oil
- 1/4 cup vanilla or plain yogurt
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 cup pecans, toasted and coarsely chopped (optional)
Directions
- Grease a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Place sweet potatoes in steamer and steam for 25 minutes, until they are tender and
easily pierced with fork.
- In bowl, with an electric mixer beat sweet potatoes till creamy, about 1 minute.
- Add the sugars, egg, egg white, safflower oil, yogurt and orange juice and beat for
another minute.
- Add the flour, baking power, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
- Remove beaters and blend in pecans with spatula.
- Pour batter in loaf pan and bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour or until knife comes
out clean when inserted.
- Cool on rack for about 30 minutes and then turn loaf onto rack to finish cooling.
Substitute 1 cup sweetened steamed apples for the sweet potatoes for an apple version of this quick bread.