Butter with mashed sweet potato

Did you know that sweet potato may also be used to replace butter? This interesting culinary tip may have gone unnoticed in the vegan cooking world due to the plethora of other readily available options such as bananas and applesauce. Mashed cooked sweet potatoes have a deep, earthy taste and a thick consistency similar to butter.

It may be easy to picture sweet potato replacing butter in savory meals, but this shockingly adaptable vegetable can also bring texture and depth to a variety of sweet recipes, such as Biscuits & Burlap's sweet potato muffins. Sweet potato butter may also be made into a spread similar to apple butter by simply adding sugar or sweetening it with agave or molasses, and flavoring it with spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg.