Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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  5             Pounds  sweet potatoes  scrubbed
  2         Tablespoon  butter or margarine (cut in small pieces)
     3/4           cup  apple cider or juice
     1/2      teaspoon  salt and pepper
  1                cup  shredded part-skim Gruyère cheese
                        Garnish: chopped parsley

Preparation:

1. Heat oven to 375°F. Bake potatoes in a jelly-roll pan 1 to 1 1/4 hours until soft when pierced. When cool enough to handle, remove skin.

2. With either a potato masher, electric mixer or large whisk, mash or beat potatoes, butter, cider, salt and pepper until smooth.

3. Spoon into a shallow 2- to 2 1/2 qt. baking dish; sprinkle with cheese

4. Bake 30 minutes or until hot and cheese melts. Sprinkle with parsley.

Planning Tip: Can be prepared through Step 2 up to 1 month ahead and frozen or up to 4 days ahead and refrigerated. Thaw if frozen, spoon into baking dish, sprinkle with cheese and bake in a 350°F oven 40 minutes or until hot.

Nutritional Information:

1 Calories (kcal); trace Total Fat; (12% calories from fat); trace Protein; trace Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 711mg Sodium