If you love a good Sweet Potato Casserole, then you will love this Crock Pot Harvest Pecan Sweet Potatoes recipe from Gooseberry Patch’s 303 Simple & Satisfying Recipes.
Aunt Lou here.
Every year, I make Sweet Potato Casserole for the holidays. So when I saw this Crock Pot Harvest Pecan Sweet Potatoes recipe, I knew I had to try this out to see if it might be able to free up some oven time and use my crock pot instead!
Crock Pot Harvest Pecan Sweet Potatoes
I made my first Sweet Potato Casserole for Thanksgiving somewhere around 8 or so years ago (man time flies!). Every year Mikey raves about it and makes a comment about having a dessert disguised as a side. 😉 I am pretty sure I could sneak in this Crock Pot Harvest Pecan Sweet Potatoes recipe, free up some oven time…and Mikey will never know the difference! These are that good!
- 2 29 oz cans sweet potatoes drained
- 1/3 c plus 2t butter melted and divided
- 2 T sugar
- 1/3 c plus 2 T brown sugar packed and divided
- 1 T orange juice
- 2 eggs beaten
- ½ c milk
- 1/3 c chopped pecans
- 2 T all-purpose flour
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Spray your crock pot with cooking spray (We used a Casserole Crock Pot)
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In a separate bowl, mash up your sweet potatoes
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Mix in your 1/3 c melted butter, sugar and 2 T brown sugar with your mashed sweet potatoes
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Next add in your juice, eggs and milk and beat
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Place your sweet potato mixture in your crock pot
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In a separate bowl, mix together your pecans, flour, the rest of your brown sugar and butter
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Spread your pecan mixture over your potato mixture
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Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours
Slow Cooker Recommendation
This Crock Pot Harvest Pecan Sweet Potatoes recipe was perfect for my 9 x13 casserole slow cooker made by Crock Pot! If you don’t have one yet, I would use at least a 5-quart crock since it won’t have all the room to spread out, and you will want to watch your cook times the first time through to make sure you can adjust your cooking time if needed.
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I have several sweet potatoes on hand, and wonder
how many I should use for this recipe, instead of
the canned?
Thanks!
Hi Suzie!
I haven’t tried it with fresh sweet potatoes, so I can’t say for sure. If I had to guess, I would say you will need 6-7 cups of sweet potatoes. Let me know how it turns out!
Enjoy!
Aunt Lou
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This sounds delicious and I’d love to try it. Do you think I could possibly “double” the recipe?
Hi Rita!
I haven’t tried it, but I think you could. Two things, I would use a larger crock pot since the recipe will be so big and make sure you are there the first time you try it. The cooking time will vary since there is so much more of it to cook. Let us know how it turns out! Enjoy!
Aunt Lou