This is a basic recipe, which can be used to make the bread. If you use baked sweet potatoes to make the bread, your bread will be much better in taste. However, the boiled potato bread does not taste bad either. Click to read more on baking sweet potatoes.
Ingredients
- Regular Flour 3 cups
- Baking Soda 1 teaspoon
- Salt 1 teaspoon
- Cinnamon 3 teaspoons
- Sugar 2 cups
- Sweet Potato (boiled and mashed)
- Nuts (chopped) ½ cup
- Eggs 4
- Vegetable Oil 1 ¼ cup
- Mix flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, sugar, sweet potatoes and nuts in a large bowl.
- Beat the eggs well, till they are fluffy.
- Mix the eggs with the oil and pour this egg-oil mixture in the flour.
- Mix the batter, till the batter is soft, even and moist to touch. Make sure you do not over-mix the batter, else the bread will become very hard.
- Grease loaf pans and pour equal amount of batter in both the pans.
- Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about an hour to an hour and ten minutes.
This is a pecan sweet potato bread recipe. It is a very common recipe used in the south. With this recipe, you will make light, spicy bread, which every one will enjoy. To make the sweet potato flesh, you can either roast the sweet potato or boil them. Having said that let’s turn to sweet potato quick bread recipe. Read more on healthy sweet potato recipes.
Ingredients
- All Purpose Flour 1 ½ cups
- Kosher Salt 2 teaspoons
- Baking Soda 1 teaspoon
- Baking Powder ½ teaspoon
- Ground Cinnamon ½ teaspoon
- Freshly Ground Nutmeg ½ teaspoon
- Sweet Potato Flesh 1 cup
- Granulated Sugar 2/3 cup
- Light Brown Sugar ⅓ cup
- Unsalted Butter (melted) 8 tablespoons
- Eggs 2
- Vanilla Extract 1 teaspoon
- Whole Milk ½ cup
- Whole Pecans (toasted and coarsely chopped) ½ cup
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and coat the loaf pan with butter and flour. In case there is any excess, tap it out.
- In a big bowl combine flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. If there are any lumps break them.
- In a blender, blend together sweet potato flesh, granulated sugar and brown sugar at a medium speed, till all the ingredients are well mixed.
- Then add butter and whisk it on low speed.
- After the butter add one egg at a time and whisk on low till the eggs become one with the other ingredients.
- Scrap the sides of the blender and add ½ the quantity of the dry mixture and ¼ cup of milk. Whisk it on low speed. Then add the remaining flour and milk.
- Remove from the blender and fold in the nuts.
- Pour the batter in the pan and bake until the cake is ready. It will take about an hour for the cake to bake.
- Let the pan cool for 15 minutes before you remove the cake.
Oh do not think, that I have forgotten my vegan friends. Here is a sweet potato bread recipe for my vegan friends. If you're using canned sweet potatoes, refer to canned sweet potato recipes.
Ingredients
- Dry Yeast 2 tablespoons
- Lukewarm Water ¼ cup
- Safflower Oil ¼ cup
- Thyme 1 teaspoon
- Mashed Sweet Potato 1 ½ cup
- Sweetener 3 tablespoons
- Soymilk 1 cup
- Whole Wheat Flour 3 cups
- Unbleached White Flour 1 cup
- Cornmeal ½ cup
- Salt 1 ½ teaspoons
- Little extra Soymilk for brushing
- Combine yeast and water together in a bowl and let it stand for about 10 minutes.
- Add oil and thyme to it and stir well.
- Now add potatoes, sweetener and soymilk to the mixture and stir gently till smooth mixture is formed.
- In a big bowl combine flour, cornmeal and salt together.
- Make a well in the center of the dry mixture and pour the wet mixture in it.
- Knead the dough and leave it aside till the dough doubles up.
- Punch the dough down and divide into 6 equal pieces.
- Roll each piece into a long coil with hands, which are about 1 inch in diameter.
- To make each loaf, braid three coils and pinch the ends together.
- Place the loaf on a floured baking sheet and cover it with damp cloth. Leave it aside till it doubles in bulk.
- Brush the top of the loaf with soymilk and bake the bread in a preheated oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit till the top is golden brown in color.
