These little cuties are soul warming food. Personally I love pie, all kinds of pie, but especially the savory flavor you get in a pot pie. The flaky crust mixed with the earthy spices and creamy filling mixed with cheeses, vegetables and some sort of meat is a combination designed to put you in some sort of hypnotic state!
Well, here’s my contribution to the comfort food king: Mini Sweet Potato Pot Pie.
I <3 anything mini-fied but pot pies? ooooooo, they’re not only super cute but packed with flavor. The mild sweetness of the sweet potato, otherwise known as a yam during the holidays, is just divine when paired with some herbs, spices, vegetables and chicken. And the tiny-ness of it makes perfect for portion control or eating on the go…or even getting the kids to try it. (After all, it did come out of the muffin tin so it must be good!)
Easy & customizable recipe
Like most of my recipes, you can change out ingredients or adjust the type and amounts of spices and herbs to suit your family’s tastes. BIT if you use the canned sweet potatoes, like I did in this recipe, you’ll want to increase the amount of herbs and spices to balance the sweetness of the brown sugar syrup the potatoes are canned in. To reduce the sweetness of the canned sweet potatoes, you can also drain the syrup before pureeing but I didn’t in this recipe.
For a lower fat, lower calorie version
You can peel, chop and boil (or bake or nuke) raw sweet potatoes till they’re done then just puree with a pinch of salt and some water or chicken stock.
Free printable recipe card
You can print the recipe on a 4×6 card without any images from the embedded microsite below (which means you can click all the little buttons and it will still work inside this page) or you can go to the Mini Sweet Potato Pot Pie microsite to see the images and the recipe in a larger scale.
Comfort Food Recipes from some of my bloggy friends
- Chicken and Mashed Potatoes Muffin Tin Recipe with Hillshire Farm Grilled Essentials! #GrilledEssentials (sharonblog.com)
- Tasty Treat Thursday Strawberry Rhubarb Oatmeal Mini Muffins (momstart.com)
- Tuscan Soup Recipe (momstart.com)
- Curried Sweet Potato Latkes With Homemade Apple Pear Sauce (fitsugar.com)
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Very well done Jenn, you have brought us here a good quality mini sweet potato pie, it looks yummy, not only yummy but healthy us well, thank you very much for sharing your whole hearth-ed recipe.