Sweet Potato Pone Recipe

Series Summary

The Southern United States produces some of the heartiest food around. Whether it’s a mean potato salad recipe, homemade baked beans, crawfish etouffee, smoked sausage, slow-cooked brisket, fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, smothered pork chops—anything that could be labeled “comfort food” probably came from the South. A lot of these dishes are served at family gatherings, picnics, backyard cookouts, and tailgate parties. Essentially, southern cooking is as much about friends and family as it is about flavor.

In these free video cooking classes, our resident Nawlins chef, Karl James, will show you how to make sweet potato pone. He’ll walk you through each step of the recipe with his notoriously easy-to-follow instructions, including ingredients needed, how to mix spices and seasonings, how to peel the sweet potatoes, how to mix the ingredients together, oven cooking tips, and even how to serve this great recipe for Thanksgiving dinners, family gatherings, or just a nice meal at home. Enjoy.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Karl James owner of Creolesoul Catering located in Round Rock, TX and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you the sweet potato pone recipe. Sweet potato pone, what is it? It's a dish that my mom use to make all the time. We use to have growing up. Basically it's an adaptation of an Indian recipe, sweet potato recipe where they use grated sweet potatoes and honey. With the pone you can do it simple with just sweet potatoes, sugar, syrup or you can get a little fancy with it and add eggs, add a variety of spices. It serves good as a side dish or it can actually be used as a dessert. You can put a topping on it. You can add nuts or you know leave it as it is. Anyway, this recipe that I'm going to use is a recipe of my mom's. I've been using it for years. We're going to grate some sweet potatoes. Then we are going to cream some butter and some brown sugar, use some molasses, eggs, spices. Put all that together in a dish, then put it in the oven bake it up and see what we got. Anyway, we're going to do sweet potato pone. Let's get started."