Banana Orange Sweet Potato Bake Recipes

BANANA-ORANGE SWEET POTATO BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º. Place sweet potatoes in a large Dutch oven; add water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook, covered, just until tender, 12-15 minutes. Drain; cool slightly. Return to pan; mash with brown sugar, butter, salt, cloves and pepper until smooth. Stir in orange zest, orange juice and, if desired, liqueur. Add bananas and eggs; mix well. Transfer to a greased 2-qt. baking dish. For topping, mix granola, pecans, coconut and brown sugar; sprinkle over sweet potatoes. Drizzle with melted butter. Bake, uncovered, until heated through, 35-45 minutes.

BANANA SWEET POTATO CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 5x8-inch baking dish.
• Place sweet potato into a large pot and cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and mash sweet potato until smooth.
• Sift flour, white sugar, and baking powder together in a large bowl. Whisk eggs and vanilla extract together in another large bowl.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir pumpkin seeds and brown sugar in hot butter until brown sugar is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir bananas and mashed sweet potato into pumpkin seed mixture. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
• Stir banana mixture into egg mixture until well-combined. Pour banana-egg mixture into flour mixture and stir until batter is just combined; stir in raisins. Pour into prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour.

SWEET POTATO AND BANANA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Scrub potatoes; place in large saucepan with salt. Add boiling water to cover; bring to boil over high heat. Cover pan and reduce heat to low; simmer 30-35 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Drain, peel and cut potatoes crosswise into 1/4" thick slices.
• Preheat oven to 375. Using butter, margarine or solid vegetable shortening, thoroughly grease a 2 qt deep casserole dish.
• Peel bananas; cut into 1/4" thick slices. In medium bowl, place bananas and orange juice; toss to coat. In small bowl, mix brown sugar with cinnamon. Set aside.
• In bottom of prepared casserole dish, arrange 1/3 of the potato slices in a single layer, overlapping the slices slightly. Top with half of the banana slices and sprinkle with 1/3 of the sugar mixture. Dot with 1/3 of the butter.
• Repeat layering with another 1/3 of the potato slices and the remaining bananas, reserving some bananas for the top. Sprinkle with 1/3 of the sugar mixture and 1/3 of the butter. Top with remaining potato slices; arrange several banana slices on top. Sprinkle with remaining sugar mixture; dot with remaining butter and pour on rest of orange juice. Bake 45 minutes or until bubbly.

SWEET POTATO-BANANA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Cook potatoes in small amount of water until tender.
• Mash and beat.
• Add nuts, 4 tablespoons butter, sugar and coconut. If the mixture is dry, add either a little cream or orange juice to moisten.
• Pour 1/2 of the sweet potato mixture into a buttered casserole.
• Cover with mashed bananas and then top with rest of sweet potato mixture.
• Combine crushed corn flakes, 2 tablespoons butter and brown sugar.
• Cover top of sweet potatoes.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.