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Sweet Fauxtato Casserole
Thanksgiving wouldn’t be complete without my mom’s sweet potato casserole.
I thought of a very creative keto twist to lower the calories and carbs!
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Sweet Fauxtato Casserole
Ingredients
- 3 cups cauliflower cooked and mashed
- 1 cup pumpkin or more...if you want a deeper color
- 1/4 cup Natural Sweetener or Brown Swerve
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk or heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoons Redmond Real salt
- 1/3 cup butter melted (or coconut oil if dairy free)
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
TOPPING:
- 1/2 cup Swerve Brown
- 1/2 cup blanched almond flour or pork rind crumbs
- 1/3 cup butter melted (or coconut oil if dairy free)
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Place cauliflower florets in a steamer basket over boiling water, cover and steam until very tender, 12 to 15 minutes. (Alternatively, place florets in a microwave-safe bowl with 1/4 cup water, cover and microwave on High for 3 to 5 minutes.) Place the cooked cauliflower in a food processor and blend until very smooth.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the cauliflower, pumpkin, Swerve, eggs, almond milk, salt, 1/3 cup butter and vanilla. Mix together and pour into a greased 13x9 inch baking dish.
- To prepare the topping, combine the Swerve, almond flour, 1/3 cup melted butter and pecans. Mix together and crumble over "sweet potato" mixture. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 to 45 minutes.
Nutrition
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Could you use the “Just like brown sugar” here in either the casserole or topping? I seem to be allergic to stevia. Can you generally replace the stevia glycerite with the sugar not or just like sugar items or even erythritol? Thank you so much, I have an autoimmune disease and gluten intolerance, and your site has wonderful recipes and information.
Thank you for your kind words!
Yep, Just Like Brown Sugar would work great! And yep, whenever you see Truvia , use the same amount of JLS.
Happy eating!
I made this for Thanksgiving and it was a hit! So tasty and no one believed it wasn’t actually sweet potatoes, I have enjoyed all of your recipes I’ve tried so far but this is definitely a favorite. 🙂
Thanks Erin!
You totally made my night!
Hi Maria,
Would you give me permission to print this recipe on my blog post for Thanksgiving? I blog on using mindfulness to manage a low carb lifestyle for Type 2 diabetes, http://www.mindfullymanagingdiabetes. I’d love to give full credit to you and your site, which is my favorite one for food and nutritional understanding.
As I plan on sending the post out for the holiday, I hope to hear back from you before.
Hi, as long as you link back to the original recipe, yes feel free to post. 🙂
Merry Christmas, Maria and family and others reading.
Made this and we enjoyed it as an accompaniment to our shrimp and filet.
Thanks again for another interesting and very good recipe, Maria.
Philis
Maria,
Why not real sweet potatoes or yams in this recipe. Are the carbs in yams just to much foe even an occaional indulgence?
Glenn
Hi, Yes they are just too much for me. Just look at the nutritional comparison! 🙂
Traditional Sweet Potato Casserole = 407 calories, 68.6 carbs, 2g fiber
“Healthified” Casserole = 190 calories, 5.3 carbs, 2.5 fiber
Over 66g of net carbs would become 16.5 teaspoons of sugar in our blood. A normal blood sugar is 1 teaspoon of sugar.
Do you think this recipe would still work subbing egg whites for the whole eggs? Thanks! LOVE YOUR BLOG- and can’t wait to try this recipe!
Thank you! I think that should work. Happy Baking! 🙂
going for it. THANK YOU!
I topped with organic unsweetened coconut shreds, coconut oil, & swerve instead…and it was deeeeee-licious!!!! WIll definitelyyyy be a repeat dish!!
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
How many heads of cauliflower does it take to make 3 cups of mashed? Thanks for your fabulous recipes!!
Probably about 3 1/2 to 4. 🙂
I made this for Thanksgiving, and it was delicious! Can’t wait for leftovers. Thanks for this healthified recipe because sweet pototoes were one of my favorite things.
Thanks!
I made a nut-free version of this that turned out wonderfully. Such a hit.
2 10-oz packages of frozen cauliflower
1 can pumpkin puree
1/4 cup erythritol
1 egg
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 Celtic sea salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
And the topping use 1/2 cup erythritol, 2 tablespoons coconut flour, 1/2 cup butter, and 1 cup of chopped pumpkin seeds.
Thanks, Maria! Your recipes make eating keto during the holidays much easier and more joyful.
That’s great! Thanks!
Hi Maria – I made the nut free version with pumpkin seeds which was absolutely delicious. I’m wondering where I went wrong…my blood sugar spiked incredibly high after consuming one serving. I had it along with baked basa (no breading) with a tiny amount of green beans and broccoli.
How much of this did you have? The serving size is 10 per recipe. The cauliflower and pumpkin carbs can add up so I would keep the serving size of this pretty small. 🙂
Well, I did endulge a little…maybe 1 cup serving I didn’t really measure definitely not more than 1 1/2 cups. The recipe states: “Healthified” Casserole = 190 calories, 5.3 carbs, 2.5 fiber. Do you think the Swerve might have played a role? Oh and I used ground up pumpkin seeds in the topping. I was so disappointed my readings were as high as if I had eaten sweet potatoes. Thank you anyway I will have a tiny amount next time. BTW my husband says this dish is so good it’s like ice cream to him.
I recalculated the totals above. This is a pretty old recipe and I have a better calculator now. The serving size is about 3/4 of a cup. So you probably got about 14 grams carbs. That would be ok for most people, but if you have metabolic syndrome, that can be too much. 🙂
Yup that would set me over the top. Thanks for recalculating – smaller portion next time for sure. 🙂
I am wondering what makes pumpkin an ok/non starchy food compared to other winter squash or yams, or sweet potatoes?
It has some to do with carb counts. Pumpkin is 20g of carbs with 7g fiber per cup. Sweet potato is 59g carbs and 4g fiber. I would use this recipe in a maintenance mode for keto (and in moderation). 🙂
I have Suriname Gold. Can that be used anywhere in this recipe?
Not sure what that is…
Is the ‘pumpkin’ in the recipe a pumpkin pie filling or a puree’?
Puree