Homemade sweet potato pie

By Feigie Ceitlin

Serves 8

INGREDIENTS:

1 graham cracker 9’’ crust

5-6 medium sweet potatoes (yams) cooked, drained and mashed

1/2 cup sugar

3 eggs

1/2 cup oat milk

2 tsp maple syrup

Topping:

1 stick margarine

1 cup flour

1 cup brown sugar

DIRECTIONS:

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Puree the potatoes and let cool

Mix potato puree with sugar, eggs, oat milk and maple syrup

Pour into the crust

Combine the topping ingredients with a pastry blender or in a food processor until they form a crumb-like texture

Place topping mixture on top of the pie

Bake for 45 minute

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The blessing: Ha’Adamah

“Fruits of the ground” include vegetables, legumes, peanuts, and the “fruit” excluded from the ha-aitz blessing above: melons, bananas, pineapples, some berries.

Baruch atah A-donay, Elo-heinu Melech Ha’Olam borei pri ha-adamah.

Blessed are You, L-rd our G‐d, King of the universe who creates the fruit of the earth.

Bon appetit!

— Feigie Ceitlin is the program director of Chabad Tucson