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Sweet Potato Yeast Bread

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · · · 🗨 39 Comments

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Easy bread machine Sweet Potato Yeast Bread with a tender crumb and golden color topped with sliced almonds. Makes a great sandwich bread.

Easy bread machine Sweet Potato Yeast Bread with a tender crumb and golden color topped with sliced almonds. Makes a great sandwich bread. | RotiNrice.com #sweetpotatobread #yeastbread #breadmachine

Apart from squashes, apples, and grapes, another wonderful produce to enjoy at this time of the year is the humble sweet potato. This tasty tuber is a great addition to your fall cooking and baking. The prices start coming down the closer we get to the holidays. I usually buy a few each week in place of regular potatoes and use them in main dishes, side dishes, salads, and desserts. I like them as a snack too, simply roasted and eaten with a dollop of butter.

Sweet Potatoes in Breads

Sweet potatoes are also great in quick breads and yeast breads. They give a tender crumb and a nice golden color to the loaf. Last year, I made a quick bread – Sweet Potato Pecan Bread. This time round, I am going to share a yeast bread recipe with you. I have made this loaf many times, usually minus the topping. I added some sliced almonds this time to give it a “festive” look.

Sliced Sweet Potato Yeast Bread

If you love homemade breads but do not have the time to knead and baby-sit the rising and punching down of the dough, a bread machine is a worthwhile investment. Mine is more than 8 years old and it is still working well. I use it at least twice a week.

Delicious Sweet Potato Yeast Bread with butter.

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Easy bread machine Sweet Potato Yeast Bread with a tender crumb and golden color topped with sliced almonds. Makes a great sandwich bread. | RotiNrice.com #sweetpotatobread #yeastbread #breadmachine
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Sweet Potato Yeast Bread

Easy bread machine Sweet Potato Yeast Bread with a tender crumb and golden color topped with sliced almonds. Makes a great sandwich bread.
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Breakfast
Cuisine : American, Western
Keyword : sweet potato bread, sweet potato yeast bread
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Prep Time 2 hrs 10 mins
Cook Time 1 hr
Total Time 3 hrs 10 mins
Servings : 14
Calories : 81kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup water (240ml)
  • 3 cups unbleached white bread flour (450g)
  • 2 tbsp oat bran
  • 8 oz cooked sweet potato (mashed) (225g)
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp non-fat dry milk
  • 1½ tsp active dry yeast

Topping

Instructions
 

  • Pour water into the bread machine pan. Sprinkle flour and oat bran over liquid. Add sweet potatoes over flour. Add butter, sugar, salt, and non-fat dry milk in separate corners of the bread pan. Make a shallow indentation in the center and add yeast.
  • Snap bread pan into machine and set it to basic setting. Press start.
  • Remove kneading paddle after final kneading**.
  • When rising cycle is almost complete, just before bread starts to bake, brush the top of loaf with a little water. Sprinkle sliced almonds over the top of the bread pressing the almonds down very gently with your palm.
  • When bread is ready, remove from the pan and cool on a wire rack.

Notes

**Removing the paddle prevents a big hole when you have to tear it out from the loaf at the end of the baking cycle.

Nutrition

Calories: 81kcal
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Slice the loaf when it cools to room temperature. It is less crumbly and much easier to slice when cool.

Room temperature Sweet Potato Yeast Bread ready for slicing.

Here is my other very popular bread machine Banana Yeast Bread that you may want to try.

Fragrant and tender Banana Yeast Bread with a hint of cinnamon. Use ripe bananas for best results. Very easy in the bread machine. | RotiNrice.com #bananabread #bananayeastbread #breadmachine

Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day! 😎


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  3. kitchen flavours says

    Lovely bread! The sweet potatoes must have added the sweetness and moistness of the bread! I’ve just posted a bread recipe too! I can’t imagine what I would do without my bread machine, as I’m too lazy to knead by hand! You are right, it is a worthwhile investment, I had mine close to five years! 🙂

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  11. skip to malou says

    i love potato bread but haven’t made any yet. Now that you’ve showed us how,(well I gotta buy that bread maker first huh?) i think i’m going to change that. Love the way you topped it with almonds, it makes it extra special.
    have a wonderful week,
    malou

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  12. Jeannie says

    The bread machine is indeed a good kitchen helper…unfortunately mine broke down a couple of years ago and I didn’t bother to get a new one. Just use the stand mixer to do the kneading for me. I love making sweet potato bread too cos I love the texture:) Yours looks so fluffy and soft!

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  19. tigerfish says

    You brought me much consolation with sweet potato. At least one fall ingredient (produce) I could handle during food prep. Easier to cut a sweet potato than a pumpkin! :O

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  21. Nami | Just One Cookbook says

    I actually have a bread machine…in a kitchen pantry somewhere in the back shelf… I’ve never tried sweet potato bread before and from the picture we can tell it’s nice and soft inside… must be a little sweet? Looks fabulous! I have a bread flower too. I should take out the machine soon.

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  22. Julie M. says

    I love that beautiful picture of you up on the blog now. It’s so good to “see” you! I love bread in all shapes and forms and your loaf is no exception. I can only imagine that the potatoes add a wonderful flavor and a bit of health to every bite!

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    • Biren says

      Aww…thanks Julie! My 2nd Blogiversary coming up soon and I felt it is time to have a new profile picture. Glad to hear you like it. 🙂

      This sweet potato bread is very tender and I make it whenever I have some sweet potatoes on hand.

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    • Biren says

      Thanks Lyndsey! I can’t believe that it is almost two years since I started this blog. It is time for a new profile picture. 🙂

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  26. Cheah says

    Your sweet potato bread looks delicious especially with the alomond decor. I too use the breadmachine to make loaves and this machine comes in very handy.

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  27. rebecca says

    this looks amazing thanks for the kind comment the tweeting blogging keeps me sane he he love chatting with folks in the day have had a bit of cabin fever as not as easy getting out with two 🙂

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    • Biren says

      Hi Shelli! So sorry about the typo. I cut and paste part of the instruction from another one of my bread recipes and somehow missed taking out the honey. This bread has no honey in it. I have corrected the error. Thanks for pointing it out.

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  32. Isabelle Boutin says

    4 stars
    Maybe it’s my boiled potatoes but the dough was a little wet, I had to add some flour in as it was kneading in the machine to have it right, I probably ended up adding close the 1/2 cup bread flour. The sunk on top of your loaf(pictured) probably means yours was a tad wet too, over-proofed a bit , but really great!

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    • Linda says

      Perhaps I should have mentioned that I usually roast the sweet potato for this recipe. Even so, it can add quite a bit of moisture to the dough. Yes, just add flour until the dough is of the right consistency.

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