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Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Pineapple

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Cook Time 45 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

  • 2 Lbs. Sweet potatoes peeled and cooked
  • 1 5-oz. can fat-free evaporated milk
  • 1 8-oz. can crushed pineapple in 100% pineapple juice save 3 tbsp from can to garnish mashed sweet potatoes.
  • 3/4 cup pineapple juice from the can
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • 1 - 2 tbsp brown sugar, to taste
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground ginger

Instructions
 

  • Melt the butter (or margarine) over medium heat in a pot; remove from heat, add the sweet potatoes and mash them. 
  • Pour the milk over the sweet potato/butter mash. Add sugar, cinnamon, ginger, pineapple and pineapple juice. Mix everything together very well. 
  • Cook for 10 minutes over low heat until liquid evaporates, stirring occasionally.  Serve warm and garnish with the reserved crushed pineapple.