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These are two of my absolute favorite recipes that my mom always made at our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. These are staples for me when I either go to our church’s small group Thanksgiving potluck or head to a family dinner. Like many of you, I believe the holidays just wouldn’t be the same without these traditional family favorites. Many of the ingredients are fairly inexpensive. They are staples I am constantly on the lookout to pair with good store deals and coupon matchups.
Check out my Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Recipe Page, for more holiday recipes.
Just got back from a trip to Walmart…their sweet potatoes are 25 cents/lb.
You can freeze sweet potatoes? Do you cook them first or freeze them raw?
Christy, – I do freeze sweet potatoes, I do them as this casserole and just cook when I need them.
I am wondering about freezing them too. I love sweet potatoes and want to take the best advantage of the sale price right now. But I am confused by your answer. You do them as this casserole? So, you cook them up and mash them to freeze or freeze the whole casserole made up? I would think it would work either way, though?
Too bad there is no way to save whole, uncooked sweet potato! I love them baked whole.
Colleen – I first roast/boil the potatoes, and then mash them up, prepare the recipe and put into a casserole dish. Then I freeze the uncooked casserole. Sorry for the confusion!
I have frozen them in casserole form, or just diced them raw and flash frozen them – stored in a freezer bag. I pull out however many I need and toss them in with a veggie combo when roasting – yum! you can also freeze them whole after being baked if you refer them that way.
I freeze sweet potatoes all the time. First I bake them, then wrap (with their skins still on) and freeze. When you are craving one of these mouthwatering, good- for-you, tubers, you can just pop it into the microwave, then use as you would with any cooked sweet potato. You can eat just as it comes out of the microwave with a little butter and cinnamon sugar or in any recipe you might choose.
can you use real potatoes to make the hashbrown casserole
Stacey – Can you explain what you mean by “real potatoes”? I use either frozen hashbrown potatoes, or I dice them myself, they are usually russet potatoes.
Kelly, when you make the casserole and then freeze it, do you freeze it with the topping already on it? If so, after you bake the thawed casserole is the topping just as crunchy as it would have been if you didn’t freeze it?
Lisa – I do both and haven’t really seen a difference either way.
Just a little variation in case sales are on different items.
Hashbrown casserole is also great with corn flakes in place of the crackers – for those who like crunchy toppings like me.
Substitute French Onion Dip for the sour cream – soooooo good!
I also prepare my sweet potatoes completely about a week before and freeze them in gallon size freezer bags to squeeze into whatever container I wish to use at the time of baking.