A lightened-up version of the classic Southern side dish, this sweet potato casserole features super smooth mashed sweet potatoes with a brown sugar pecan oat crumble on top. No marshmallows here.
If you had told me 10 years ago that I’d be posting a recipe with sweet potatoes as the star, I’d have laughed you out of the room.
I’m not proud of this admission, but I was a card-carrying sweet potato hater for the first two decades of my life. I just didn’t enjoy them. I think it had something to do with the fact that I expected potatoes to be savory, in the same way I expect pickles to be savory, and it just didn’t compute that they should be sweet.
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