Home canned sweet potatoes with honey

This is a delicious, easy variation on plain canned sweet potatoes.

Please note these will be very, very soft, and most suitable for serving mashed or in a purée.

Processing method: Pressure canning only

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• 1 Home canned sweet potatoes with honey
  • 1.1 Ingredients
  • 1.2 Instructions
  • 1.3 Recipe Notes
• 2 Nutrition
• 3 Source

Home canned sweet potatoes with honey

How to pressure can sweet potatoes with honey. Note these will come out soft.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword Sweet Potatoes

Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Yield 1 varies

Calories 290 kcal

Ingredients

• sweet potatoes
• honey

Instructions

1. Prepare and can sweet potatoes as per directions for plain sweet potatoes.

2. But, before filling each jar, add some honey. ( tablespoon for half-litre / US pint jars; 2 tablespoons for 1 litre / US quart jars).

Recipe Notes

To be clear, the honey has 0 preservative effect: it's for flavour only. Following the proper USDA pressure canning procedure provides the preservative effect.

Nutrition

Serving size: 250 g, drained (about one half of a half-litre / US pint jar, if 500 g went into the jar.)

Per 250 g: 290 calories

Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 250 g = 7 points.

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.

Source

Potatoes – Sweet. In: Ball Blue Book. Muncie, Indiana: Healthmark LLC / Jarden Home Brands. Edition 37. 2014. Page 115.