Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Bread is soft, sweet, and packed with peanut butter flavor. A delicious plant-based recipe for fall.
Have you fallen in love with sweet potatoes yet? If not, you're about to. It's fall, sweet potatoes are in season, and this Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Bread is calling your name.
Sweet potatoes are such an incredible food. Nutritionally, they've got fiber, healthy carbs, and tons of vitamins and minerals. They're super versatile: you can roast them by themselves or with veggies, bake them in brownies or blondies, turn them into bites, make fries, use them in soup, add them to salad, make hummus, or bake them into bread!
Best of all, sweet potatoes are tasty! Depending on what kind you use and how you cook them, they can range from sticky sweet and dense to light and earthy. They can hide nicely in a dish or be the star of the show. They're definitely on my list of top 5 favorite foods. I hope they're on yours too!
The obvious answer is that it's bread made with sweet potatoes.
The non-obvious answer is that sweet potatoes serve as one of the wet ingredients, making up the bulk of this bread. As a starch, they help bind the bread together.
They also give it a slightly sweet flavor, with a bit of earthiness (<--trust me, it's good).
This specific bread is peanut butter flavored. So it uses sweet potato, but peanuts are the co-stars of this show. Peanut butter and sweet potato go so well together - they are one of my favorite combinations! The sweet-savory-salty mix is amazing.
Now that we have a better understanding of the bread itself, let's dig into the ingredients.
Start by mashing your sweet potatoes.
Then, add the date sugar, peanut butter, date syrup, ground flax, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. Stir until combined.
Next, stir in the dry ingredients: peanut powder, oat flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until you get a nice dough/batter.
Spread it into a loaf pan and top with the chopped peanuts.
Bake the bread for about 20 minutes, until the inside is cooked through. Then let it cool. Slice it and enjoy!
This bread is made from whole-food plant-based ingredients, so it won't stay fresh as long as a bread with more processed ingredients. BUT you can store it on the counter with some aluminum foil wrapped around it or in the fridge.
Yes. I recommend slicing the bread before you freeze it so it is easier to thaw and eat. Defrost it by leaving it out on the counter until it is the appropriate temperature.
This bread is not like toast, but you may even want to put it in the toaster and get a nice crisp on the outside. Experiment with the taste and texture that you like best!
I hope you enjoy!
Jesus, thank you for healthy sweet potatoes. We are grateful for vegetables that are in season. Amen.
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Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Bread is soft, sweet, and packed with peanut butter flavor. A delicious plant-based recipe for fall.
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