Healthy Sweet Potato Casserole

This easy Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecans is a healthy holiday side dish! This family favorite Thanksgiving side dish is the perfect amount of sweet and wholesome–you're going to love it! Mashed sweet potato casserole topped with coconut sugar and pecans

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword sweet potato casserole, thanksgiving side dish

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Servings servings

Calories 251kcal

Author Becca Ludlum

Equipment

Baking Dish
Mixing Bowls
Instant Pot 6 qt

Ingredients

Bottom Layer:

3 cups sweet potatoes boiled, peeled, and mashed
½ cup coconut sugar
½ cup butter melted
1 tsp vanilla
½ cup coconut milk or almond milk
2 eggs

Optional: salt to taste

Topping:

¼ cup butter
¼ cup coconut sugar
½ cup almond flour
½ cup pecans chopped

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Cook your sweet potatoes. (see recipe tips)
In a large bowl, mash the sweet potatoes. Then add ½ cup coconut sugar, ½ cup of melted butter, vanilla, coconut milk, and eggs, and stir to combine. You can mix by hand or with an electric mixer.
Grease a casserole or baking dish and then add the sweet potato mixture to the dish. Spread with a spatula to create an even layer.
In a medium sized bowl, add a ¼ cup of melted butter and a ¼ cup coconut sugar. Stir until the sugar has dissolved, then mix in almond flour and chopped pecans. Stir until well mixed and crumbly.
Sprinkle the pecan mixture on top of the mashed sweet potatoes.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350ºF for 30 minutes.

Notes

Recipe tips:

I love to cook sweet potatoes in the Instant Pot, because they come out perfect every time and I can mash them right up! You can also bake, boil or use any other method that you prefer to get them cooked and mashable.
I like to use canned coconut milk, but you can also use almond milk.
If you're following the 21 Day Fix and want more FIX approved Thanksgiving recipes, like green bean casserole, check out this post.

21 Day Fix

Entire recipe = 12 servings

Casserole plus topping per serving:

1/2Y, 3 sweetener tsp, 3 oil tsp, about 1/12R (I wouldn't even count this), and about 1/2B

2B Mindset

This recipe counts as a Fiber Filled Carb (FFC) or a silly carb, so you'll still want to eat it in moderation and within the limits of the program. But, it's not off limits like some marshmallow varieties would be :)

Weight Watchers

Points per serving, using unsweetened almond milk in place of the coconut milk

11 Blue Plan Points | 12 Green Plan Points | 10 Purple Plan Points

Nutrition