Hi Tina.. For most of my life, I thought I didn't like sweet potatoes because I'd only ever had them in a sweet glaze or the marshmallow casserole. When I made some dietary changes, i added sweet potatoes in for their nutritious benefits and low glycemic index, I experimented to find a way i would enjoy them! Unfortunately, I don't have a recipe.. i wing it!

I usually make my mashed sweet potatoes from baked vs boiled like you do with white potatoes. I add butter, garlic and cayenne to taste. I am guessing that doesn't help you at all lol.. but if you are adventurous, you could give it a try :)

I'll be curious to see other people's recipes!

I boil chunks of sweet potatoes, drain and mash with butter, salt and pepper. I do add sour cream and parsley when I want to get fancy.

I like baked sweet potatoes better, plain.

No real recipe, but I often season sweet potatoes with a few dashes of soy sauce, a little bit of orange juice (or lime) and a sprinkle of chipotle pepper.

Mashed with butter or mashed with chipotles if you like some heat.

Thank you ladies! I wish I could think what might be in the potatoes but I just don't know!! I've never thought or had sour cream in sweet potatoes @maddielee. I also like them baked, roasted, etc. I'm not so fond of the marshmallow covered variety but the pecan topped recipe is fine. At least I can control how sweet (and how buttery yum!) i make them! Thanks again.

Here's a Thanksgiving version for mashed sweets.

https://www.sprinklesandsprouts.com/sweet-potato-sage/

People really seem to like this recipe every time I make it.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/18537/yummy-yam-casserole/

Of course I've made a couple of changes. I don't add the 2T of melted butter but instead add 1/2 or 1 apple (peeled, cored and diced) before baking. The amt depends on how big of a recipe I'm making. And that's the same with the number of eggs.

I really like the spice mixture that is used in this recipe.

The topping as you can see - is pecans, brown sugar and melted butter and sometimes I'll throw in some dried cranberries.

@blfenton that is very similar to my recipe, although the spices are a bit different. I believe it does have some cream and I do use butter (yum!).

I cant recall offhand how my grandmother always made hers, but I do recall she used apricot nectar, cinnamon, butter, a bit of brown sugar, and pecans. There was no topping, she just mixed it all together.

Just peeked at blfenton’s recipe, and maybe my grandmother’s recipe had eggs, I cannot recall.

I'm another who just wings it, and they aren't always the same, but I like adding a touch of cinnamon, some butter and a bit of pasilla negro, a mild chili powder -- more depth of flavor with little or no heat. That's often the starting point and then I may go in one direction or the other depending on my mood or what else is going on the table. A little orange zest or juice can be nice. Maple syrup or brown sugar if they need a little sweetening. When we get sweet potatoes in our farm share, they often don't need a lot.

If you add anything sweet to sweet potatoes, to me, they're no longer savory. I once accidentally sprinkled garlic powder on cubed sweet potatoes before roasting, and really enjoyed the flavor. Much like sweet potato fries, they had salty/garlicky combo. Now, when I roast them, I use salt, garlic powder, and thyme. If I were to replicate that kind of savory in a mashed sweet potato dish, I would start with this recipe. It is truly savory.

Thank you @Feathers11. I'll only be making the sweet dish (with pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, etc. topping) if I can't find the savory I'm looking for. I also like garlic on roasted sweet potatoes. I saw the recipe you listed when I googled, but the recipe I wanted to duplicate did not have onions or parsley. Thank you so much for your suggestion. I'm sorry to be a pain and think I will have to just give up on the ones I was trying to duplicate as so far nothing sounds right. It's been probably over a couple of years since I've had those, and I just think what the spices might be. I'll probably try some of the ideas mention here in the future though!! Thanks for trying to help. : )

Okay This one popped up when I did a search. https://cookieandkate.com/savory-mashed-sweet-potatoes

And this one -- relying on only butter, cream, salt and pepper. https://www.spendwithpennies.com/mashed-sweet-potatoes/

We eat sweet potatoes all the time. Usually I bake them cut like fries. After a quick douse of olive oil I toss the with a mixture of garlic/cinnamon/clove/salt. I make squash with the same spices and a little natural maple syrup if I feel sweetening is needed.

I cube sweet potatoes, or butternut squash, toss them in a spice blend containing cumin, coriander, cinnamon, chili powder, salt and pepper, we then use in lots of way. Tossed in salads or grain bowls. I really think cumin is key. So I searched cumin mashed sweet poptatoes and found this recipe, https://cookingchatfood.com/sweet-potatoes-cumin-sage-butter/

I think i will make for T-Day!

@ajuju CURRY! That might be the key ingredient! I'm going to try that (practice run). @localeater yours spice blend sound interesting too but I'm pretty sure there were no sage leaves in the ones I've eaten. There was nothing you could see. @arcy_gw I use some of those spices when roasting, but the ones I'm trying to duplicate have no added sweetness at all - so no maple syrup. Thanks again all!

I've had red curries with sweet potato made by my ex; pretty sure no recipe just a general approach. This looks good:

https://www.thekitchn.com/sweet-potato-curry-267050

I bake them and scoop meat out of shell. Mash with butter, maple syrup and a little cinnamon My family like them at Thanksgiving.

Back when I used to eat Sweet potatoes I'd make mashed ones by cubing and roasting them first in the oven, then mash them up. Add a little bit of heavy cream, brown some butter where I also sauteed a few pressed cloves of garlic in it and mixed it all in and then just added salt/peppar to taste. Sorry never used any particular measurements.

These ideas all sound really good! I'm going to experiment with curry and cumin.