Parsnip Puree With Bruleed Sweet Potatoes

A pencil notation added successful George Washington Vanderbilt II’s manus to a luncheon paper for Nov. 25, 1904, reads, "Give maine puree of parsnip sometimes arsenic a vegetable."

This recipe, meant arsenic a broadside crockery for a Thanksgiving meal inspired by Vanderbilt’s occidental North Carolina estate, Biltmore, is simply a riff connected a modern-day favorite, saccharine potatoes with marshmallows. Here, the achromatic portion of the crockery is connected the bottommost and the saccharine potatoes, caramelized similar marshmallows, are connected top.

Roast the saccharine potatoes connected a parchment-paper-lined baking sheet; the insubstantial volition beforehand browning of their face-down sides. You’ll request a 1 1/2-inch biscuit/cookie cutter.

You tin substitute affluent turkey oregon chickenhearted banal for the pick oregon usage immoderate operation of the 2 you prefer, keeping successful caput that the much pick you use, the richer the puree volition be.

The crockery tin beryllium assembled a time oregon 2 successful beforehand and refrigerated. To finish, screen with aluminum foil and cook astatine 375 degrees for 35 minutes. Then sprinkle the sweetener connected apical of the murphy rounds and broil oregon blowtorch the sweetener arsenic successful the look below.

From cookbook writer and erstwhile cook David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  250

• Fat

  15 g

• Saturated Fat

  9 g

• Carbohydrates

  30 g

• Sodium

  230 mg

• Cholesterol

  50 mg

• Protein

  3 g

• Fiber

  7 g

• Sugar

  8 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer and erstwhile cook David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.