Chef Shiri: Kids – See if you have what it takes to become a Junior Chef!

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Adult Supervision Required

Utensils Needed:

  • Can opener
  • Strainer
  • Medium Mixing Bowl
  • Fork
  • Measuring cups & spoons
  • Electric mixer
  • Baking sheet
  • Oven mitts

Ingredients:

  • 1 can  (15.75-ounce) sweet potatoes
  • 1 cup soymilk
  • ¾ cup dark brown sugar
  • ¼ cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 1¼ teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 ready-to-bake pie crust (9-inch)

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Open the can of sweet potatoes and pour into a strainer over the sink to drain out all of the liquid.
  3. Place the sweet potatoes into a medium mixing bowl. Mash them with the back of a fork.
  4. Add the soymilk, brown sugar, flour, eggs, cinnamon, and salt.
  5. With an electric mixer at medium speed, mix all the ingredients until the mixture becomes a smooth batter.
  6. Place the pie crust on a baking sheet. Pour the batter into the pie crust.
  7. Transfer the baking sheet into the hot oven and bake the pie for 10 minutes.
  8. Lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for an additional 40 minutes.
  9. Use the oven mitts to carefully remove baking sheet with the sweet potato pie from the oven.

Serves 12!

Not a Potato Nor a Yam

Despite their name, sweet potatoes are not related to regular potatoes. A sweet potato is a root, while potatoes are tubers.  The sweet potato is also often called a yam. Again, the two are unrelated. True yams are starchy, underground tubers.