Sweet Potato Pone Belize Recipes

SWEET POTATO PONE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a casserole dish with butter or oil.
• Place the sweet potato chunks into a large pot and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and transfer to a large bowl.
• Mash the potatoes with a potato masher. Add the brown sugar, butter, condensed milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt to the mashed potato; beat with a wire whisk until fluffy. Crack the eggs into the bowl and continue whisking until the mixture is light in color; pour into the prepared dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 90 minutes.

SWEET POTATO PONE (BELIZE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Beat potatoes, sugar and coconut milk in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until sugar is completely dissolved. Add evaporated milk, ginger and vanilla; mix until well blended.
• Spoon into greased 13x9-inch baking dish.
• Bake 1 hour or until center is set. Sprinkle with the coconut. Serve warm or cold. Cover and refrigerate any leftovers.

SWEET POTATO PONE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly spray a 9-inch square baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
• Whisk together the butter with the brown sugar and molasses in a bowl. Whisk in the eggs, half-and-half and vanilla until smooth. Stir in the salt, spices, orange zest and juice. Fold in the sweet potatoes. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish, then smooth the top and cover with foil.
• Bake until the center is set and the potatoes are soft, about 40 minutes. Remove the foil and bake until bubbling and starting to brown on the edges, another 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool to room temperature. Serve chilled or at room temperature with the Eggnog Whipped Cream.
• Add the whipping cream, confectioners' sugar and nutmeg to the chilled bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or a chilled large bowl if using a hand mixer) and whisk on high speed until soft peaks form, about 2 minutes. Fold in the eggnog.

SWEET POTATO PONE AKA POTATO POUND OF BELIZE

Steps:

• Grease a 9x13 pyrex dish.
• Preheat oven to 450.
• Wash, peel, and grate sweet potatoes.
• In large bowl, combine sweet potatoes, ginger, raisins, cinnamon, sugar and vanilla.
• Mix well.
• Add milk and butter; stirring to incorporate throughout mixture.
• Pour into pyrex dish.
• Bake on the bottom shelf of your oven for 30 minutes.
• Lower oven temperature to 350.
• Move dish to top shelf.
• Cook for an additional hour until top is brown, knife comes out clean.
• The top will look very sticky.