Simple and easy sweet potato pie recipe, firsr time cooking Thanksgiving dinner?

[jeboo93]

To make this short I need 3 things :

1. A simple/easy sweet potato pie recipe

2. Knowledge of how to make my pies less stringy

3. How to bake the sweet potatoes in the oven before use (oven temp, how long to bake, preparation?) .I heard it makes them more flavorful than boiling


Thank you

 

[KeepCalmandCarryOn]

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups mashed cooked sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
2 ounces butter or margarine, melted
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
1/4 cup milk
Whipped cream (optional)

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Roll out pastry and place into a 9-inch pie pan.
2. Mix sweet potatoes, sugar, spices, salt, and butter in a medium-sized bowl. Beat in eggs and milk. Pour filling into pastry-lined pan.
3. Bake for 1 hour, until a pick inserted halfway between edge and center comes out clean. Cool slightly on rack. Cut into wedges and top with whipped cream, if desired
Or this one
Ingredients
One batch Sweet Dough, for a 1-crust pie (recipe above)
Filling:
2 large sweet potatoes
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger or 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh ginger
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 1/4 cups light cream or half-and-half
Directions
Prepare and chill the dough.
Bake sweet potatoes for 1 hour at 350 degrees, or until soft. Cool, peel and puree in the food processor.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and set a rack in the lowest level. For the bottom crust, lightly flour the work surface and the dough and roll it to a 12-inch disk. Fold the dough in half and place it in the pan; unfold the dough and press it firmly into the pan. Trim away all but 1/2-inch excess dough at edge of pan. Fold dough under and flute edge.
For the filling, scrape pumpkin into a bowl and whisk in eggs and yolks. Whisk in remaining ingredients in order, whisking smooth between each addition. Pour the filling into the prepared pie crust.
Bake the pie for about 1 hour, until the crust is baked through and the filling is set. Cool the pie on a rack.
For Squash Pie, halve, seed and wrap in foil, one large acorn squash and substitute for sweet potatoes, above
. To make the pie less you need to pass your sweet potato through a sieve or china cap.
Small "pie" sweet potato do not usually have a lot of "stringiness" in the flesh, which is why they are called pie pumpkins. When fully cooked, pass it through a sieve or china cap and this will remove most (not all) of the strings.