Recipe Sweet Potato Pie Patti Labelle

If you don t have the book last time i checked the recipe was also online.

Recipe sweet potato pie patti labelle. You ll need a 9 inch deep dish pie plate. Allow to cool down then peel. Sift the flour and salt into a medium bowl.

Chubby s version which was also the inspiration behind my dear friend norma s recipe. Place the sweet potatoes in a large mixing bowl along with the butter cream agave cinnamon nutmeg almond extract vanilla extract salt and lemon zest. Patti labelle s sweet potato pie this makes a light textured pie not too sweet and with a nice spice flavor with a flaky and tender crust.

Any and every sweet potato pie i make is compared to the og. Boil the sweet potatoes in a large pot of boiling water until tender about 25 minutes. Notes s weet potato pie is in my blood.

Beat mashed sweet potato about 2 cups total butter sugar evaporated milk eggs nutmeg cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until sugar is dissolved. Roll out prepared dough into a 13 round on a lightly floured surface. Soulful sweets to sing about by patti labelle.

Using a fork or a pastry blender cut the shortening into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs with. Any and every sweet potato pie i. Sweet potato pie with patti s favorite pie dough.

Prepare the pie shell. Perhaps that s what helped inspire her hit with dionne that s what friends are for believe it or not this southern girl can t recall ever having eaten sweet potato pie. It s in my first cookbook labelle cuisine.