Hawaiian style sweet potato pie, featuring American Orange Yams and Okinawa Purple Sweet potato with Macadamia Nut
Okinawa Purple Sweet Potatoes can be found at Asian grocery stories and some specialty stores. They look deceptively brown from the outside, but when cut into, the flesh is a brilliant indigo purple. Cooked, they taste similar to their orange siblings but with a striking color difference. Combined with traditional American orange sweet potatoes (or yams as they are often called in the grocery stores) the color contrast makes for a wonderfully stunning dessert with an old time flavor.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 12 of 17 ingredients — the other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Yogurt | 170g plain Greek | 100 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Honey | 1 tbsp (21g) | 64 |
| Orange | 1 medium (131g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Rum | 1/2 oz (15ml) | 32 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Yam | not in our table | 0 |
| Bean | not in our table | 0 |
| Macadamia Nut | not in our table | 0 |
| Macadamia | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 75 g (1/2 cup) whole wheat flour
- 115 g (3/4 cup) all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon finely ground sea salt
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 140 g (1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons or 1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons cup ice water
- 2 tablespoons dark rum
- 1 lb 5oz Okinawa purple sweet potato (3 small ones)
- 9 oz orange yam/sweet potato (1 large one)
- 1 cup plain full fat yogurt
- 1/4 cup dark rum
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 vanilla bean
- 3 large egg yolks
- 1 large egg
- two generous pinches of red Hawaiian sea salt (or other sea salt)
- 180 g (1 1/2 cups) macadamia nuts, chopped
- 1 tablespoon macadamia honey (or other honey)
- 1 large egg white plus 1 tablespoon water