Elevate your side dish game with these delicious Browned Butter Sweet Potato Stacks. Thinly sliced sweet potatoes, fragrant sage, and nutty browned butter come together to create a visually stunning and flavorful dish that will impress your guests.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
Beautiful presentation: stacked layers of thinly sliced sweet potatoes make for an elegant and eye-catching presentation on the holiday season.
Delicious flavor combination: the combination of browned butter, sage, and roasted sweet potatoes creates a harmonious blend of savory and sweet flavors that will tantalize your taste buds.
Simple ingredients: made with just a few ingredients, this recipe is easy to make and can be customized to your liking. It can be served as a side dish or even as a unique appetizer for special occasions.
🥘 Ingredients
Prep time: 20 mins | Cook time: 25 mins | Total time: 45 mins | Serves: 12 servings
Nutty browned butter, crispy fried sage, salty parmesan cheese and sweet potato slices. The delicious components making the perfect holiday side dish!
Unsalted butter
Fresh sage leaves
Garlic cloves,
Sweet potatoes
Cooking spray
Salt
Black pepper
Parmesan cheese
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Place butter in small saucepan over medium-high heat. When butter starts to bubble, add crushed garlic and fresh sage leaves. Reduce heat and cook until butter begins to brown, swirling the pan occasionally. Watch carefully as you do not want it to burn. Remove leaves and cloves from butter and place on a paper lined plate. Reserve butter and toss (or eat!) garlic cloves.
- Spray 12 cup muffin tin with cooking spray. Place two rounds of sweet potato into bottom of muffin cups. Sprinkle evenly with parmesan cheese (⅛ cup). Layer with two more rounds of sweet potato. Drizzle each potato cup with 1 teaspoon melted butter mixture. Cover muffin tin tightly with aluminum foil and place in oven. Bake for 25 minutes.
- Remove from oven and turn broiler on high. Sprinkle potato rounds evenly with remaining parmesan cheese. Place under broiler and broil until bubbly and lightly browned. About 2 minutes.
- Transfer to serving platter and top with fried sage and drizzle with any extra browned butter.
🥄 Equipment
Small saucepan
Paper towels
Small plate
Muffin pan (12 cup)
Aluminum foil
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store any leftovers in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Reheat: warm leftovers in the oven at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes.
📖 Variations
Extra Cheesy Twist: Add a layer of your favorite shredded cheese, such as cheddar or mozzarella, between the sweet potato slices for an extra cheesy delight.
Spiced Kick: Sprinkle some paprika, cayenne pepper, or chili flakes over each layer to add a hint of heat to the sweet potato stacks.
Cinnamon Maple Twist: season with cinnamon brown sugar and skip the parmesan cheese and drizzle a little bit of maple syrup over each stack of sliced potatoes before baking.
💭 Tips
- You can use any of your favorite fresh herbs in place of the sage.
- Use a mandoline slicer or a sharp knife to ensure thin and even sweet potato slices.
- Experiment with different herbs and seasonings to customize the flavor. Thyme or rosemary can be great alternatives to sage.
- If you don't have cooking spray you can lightly brush the muffin wells with olive oil.
🙋 FAQ's
Can I make this sweet potato recipe ahead of time?
Yes, you can prepare the sweet potato stacks ahead of time and refrigerate them until ready to bake. Just make sure to bring them to room temperature before baking as directed.
Can I use other types of potatoes?
Absolutely! While sweet potatoes pro
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🍽 Serve with..
Serve these Browned Butter Sweet Potato Stacks as a side dish alongside roasted meats, poultry, or grilled vegetables. These little stacks also make a stunning addition to the holiday table or special occasions.
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📖 Recipe
Sweet Potato Stacks
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Ingredients
- ¼ cup unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons fresh sage leaves
- 3 garlic cloves , smashed
- 1½ pounds sweet potatoes , peeled and cut into ¼-in.-thick rounds
- Cooking spray
- 1¼ teasopon salt , divided
- ¼ cup parmesan cheese , divided
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Place butter in small saucepan over medium-high heat. When butter starts to bubble, add crushed garlic and fresh sage leaves.
- Reduce heat and cook until butter begins to brown, swirling the pan occasionally. Watch carefully as you do not want it to burn.
- Remove leaves and cloves from butter and place on a paper lined plate. Reserve butter and toss garlic cloves.
- Spray 12 cup muffin tin with cooking spray. Place two rounds of sweet potato into bottom of muffin cups. Sprinkle evenly with parmesan cheese (⅛ cup).
- Layer with two more rounds of sweet potato. Drizzle each potato cup with 1 teaspoon melted butter mixture. Cover muffin tin tightly with aluminum foil and place in oven. Bake for 25 minutes.
- Remove from oven and turn broiler on high. Sprinkle potato rounds evenly with remaining parmesan cheese.
- Place under broiler and broil until bubbly and lightly browned. About 2 minutes.
- Transfer to serving platter and top with fried sage and drizzle with any extra browned butter.
Janice livingston
Why in muffin tins ?
Shelby
Hi Janice, these are cooked in muffin tins to keep the stacks from tipping over when baking. With butter and cheese as part of the ingredients, they will slip off of each other.
Constance Smith
I love these stacks! Sweet potatoes are so goo, but so under-used!
Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious
Those spud stacks look elegant, and the fried sage on top...perfect!
Caroline
I love sweet potatoes and the additions of browned butter, cheese and sage go so well. The stacks look so elegant too!
Melissa
The apple brined turkey sounds like it would be tasty!
David
They have a dessert recipe for Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies that would be good any time of year for any occasion.
sandra
I look forward to seeing the festive holiday menu on my table.
Susan Christy
I love sweet potatoes - these look SO GOOD! The recipe I want to try is Christmas Eve Salad.
Cricket Plunkett
Sweet potato may be my favorite fall flavor! Love that you added the cheese to these!
Kim @ Three Olives Branch
These look so cute -and so good! I love this idea, need to try them out this year!
Ludmilla
I love the combination of flavors and colors in this dish!! Looks delicious!!
Shashi at RunninSrilankan
These little, delicately flavored stacks are too adorable! I've seen potato stacks - but I prefer the health benefits of sweet potatoes and cannot wait to try these!
Nicola @ Happy Healthy Motivated
These sweet potato stacks sound amazing - just my kind of side dish! Love the cute presentation with the sage leaf, too.