Sweet Potato Fried Pies , Simple Ingredient Southern Cooking

It's Saturday night and I have made some sweet potatoes and I haven't done anything with them And we haven't been on here live in a month. So I told Chris I'm gonna make y'all some fried pies with sweet potatoes So I'm going to just talk to y'all for a second while I'm mixing up my biscuits and then I'll bring y'all up closer All right. So I think I'll just make a regular batch of biscuits. Well, actually a half batch of biscuits Because it's just me and Chris and there ain't no sense in me making a whole bunch of pies So I'm going to start with a cup of flour and a little bit of shortening Just like you're making a biscuit and you're just gonna use your blending fork and blend that into the flour Okay, y'all are having a blessed Saturday night. I know Chris is watching football So he's in there watching football instead of he wants to watch the He's watching Georgia Play somebody Florida, I think Georgia and Florida playing. They're supposed to be big rivals, you know Alright, so that's all we got to do for that. Add a little buttermilk and this is gonna be quick I got my skillet over here preheated already. So we're just gonna mix up some sweet potato stuff to go in these So I add my meal just a little at a time And you just mix it and you just keep continue to mix it now when you're making fried pies or dumplings You don't want a real wet dough. You want a More of a stiff dough. Okay, so it's more workable So see I never did add any more buttermilk to that I just kept stirring it until I got all the flour incorporated into it. And now what we're gonna do Is knead it a little bit And I'll bring y'all up for the rest of the video, how's that y'all seen enough of me So, let me go put this in the sink and we'll bring y'all up here So Live when you're live Um, yeah do it all When you're basic, okay, so we're gonna take a little flour put it into this dough and when you make a fried pie Or dumplings you got to put enough flour into the dough That when you pick up the sheet after rolling it out, it don't tear apart and that's my trick I remember when I started this show back five years ago Everybody won't know why their dumplings were falling apart Or why they were this or why they were that and I never had a good answer for them I just would say y'all watch the video and now I know That's the best answer you can give somebody So we're just gonna take a rolling pin and roll this out and when you fry pie Remember, this is biscuit dough and it's self-rising flour So it's gonna puff up and you don't want it to be so puffy that it don't get done so You need to roll it out pretty thin And let me show you the trick if you can pick your dough up and It not tear apart and it's really not I can't see up high because I got y'all down so low Y'all can see better It's it's just right on the verge of being perfect really So we're just gonna roll it out a little bit Cut a few circles out of it and make a few pies And the best size for a fried pie circle is your rotary sifter if you don't have a rotary sifter then go on the website and get you one and Make you some apple fried pies or sweet potato fried pies or blueberry or peach or whatever it is you want so there's your dough for your fried pie So we're gonna stack them up over here cut a couple of more and then we're gonna mix up our sweet potatoes and you know They're not gonna have time To bake or you know, take forever to cook the sweet potato part. The sweet potato is done, but you can't put an egg in it Like you would like if you were making a souffle or something like that The only way you can do that is if you bake these in the oven and you could bake these in the oven But then they wouldn't be fried in butter. They wouldn't be as good would they? Nope, they wouldn't All right, we're gonna get one more One more Y'all give a shout out Hit the like button. We're live It's harder to go live y'all because if I make a mistake or do something crazy, y'all see it A lot of people won't go live when they're cooking especially something like this But I always got to have fun with y'all now, I'm gonna open this door because it's hot I don't even have the other air conditioner on Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna mix up our sweet potato stuff. I'm gonna bring y'all up just a little bit So y'all can see a little better. We're just gonna work right here in this mess. I'm getting it on me and it don't matter We call it an apron. All right, I got two Baked potatoes. I bake these in my air fryer y'all The air fryer works really good to bake potatoes with so I'm just gonna pick off the dark spots And Peeling and I'll go wash my hands and then we're gonna mix this up make it delicious Well, you never went in my granny's house She didn't have some sweet potatoes made some kind of way because she grew all her sweet potatoes every year So we ate sweet potatoes every time we went down there. All right Now what we're gonna do is just make it taste good I ain't going by no recipe tonight We're just cooking. All right, so I'm gonna take me some sugar put in here There's a couple of potatoes and this is brown sugar and so I'm just gonna put a handful of sugar per a Good handful of sugar per potato Let me show you how mama cooks. Okay, and then you're gonna open up some Evaporated milk. I could have got out Eagle brand and killed two birds with one stone with the cream and the milk But mama probably didn't never have any of that. So this ain't nothing wrong Get you an old can opener. I got these on the website too. If you don't have one of these they are wonderful for cream I'm gonna put a little cream in there We're gonna put a little cinnamon in it and a little nutmeg. That is not cinnamon. Yeah it is That's cinnamon. Now you can put pumpkin pie spice in there this time of year if you want to And this is nutmeg And yeah, I put my finger in it, but you know what the only thing I got on my finger is a little bit of sugar All right, and we're gonna mix it up y'all ready I Love these four cup measuring cups. If you don't have one get you one Cuz they're handy to mix up like egg whites and stuff like this in We're gonna taste it We'll taste it make sure that it tastes good And y'all mama would have never used nutmeg, but I'm gonna tell you me and Chris like it, don't we Chris? Here let me taste it I'll let y'all see me taste it Looks pretty good y'all pretty good. That's gonna be good in the fried pie now It's plenty sweet really and truly it is and when I fry my pies I Drop them in butter and oil So let's just go ahead Flour this get this started y'all ready. It won't take but a minute to fry them up. We're gonna lay these out right here fill them Flip them over and seal them. Now I dip them in cinnamon sugar when I'm done Mama didn't do that either, but you know what over the years I've learned how to do some things that mama didn't do Real quick Well, I guess we'll seal these first y'all don't get too drunk y'all get drunk without even drinking tonight Now when you fill a fried pie you can't fill it too full So just put you good heaping teaspoon in it all it really needs I Wish I was here and y'all could eat one of these. These are perfect for fall festivals to sell in booths and like You know like your Halloween gathering all that stuff where you sell your food You can make these pumpkin pie and boy would they sell like hot cakes It only takes a minute to make them I used to make them every Sunday morning for church Our church had a coffee shop believe it or not. And I would make fried pies on Sunday morning just When you bend it over like that, just be forceful with it Put the ends together and it don't matter if some of it comes out and you squeeze a little out of it Don't be scared But anyway, I'd make some for church Every Sunday morning I really put too much in these y'all, but we gonna pretend I didn't Well, I don't want to I want them to be good and like full of good stuff Chris it takes time out So anyway, I would make Apple on Sunday mornings and I used Dried apples and I cooked them down And I didn't use any cinnamon because that's how we ate them growing up. Just plain old fried pie No cinnamon, especially no nutmeg But now me and Chris like to don't brush stuff up. We like it all don't we baby? We like it all now I just fried that man a delicious steak and butter and He actually had a sweet potato with his steak And I had some leftover and I said how long's it been since we get a lot on YouTube and he said since the end of September and I said well, it's time I did one So y'all getting a treat tonight. This really is alive. Most the time we play play edited video Now if for some reason You're worried that these are going to open and sometimes they do open a little bit while they're frying up If you're worried about it Okay, if you're worried about it Then you can wet the edges With some butter If you want to but I never do and if one opens I just eat it anyway Now the only thing I hadn't done ahead of time y'all was mix up cinnamon sugar So I got to do that right quick so I Guess I'm gonna let y'all watch these fry While I mix me up some cinnamon sugar now this oil is hot What should be I always put a test piece? I got it turned down. We're gonna turn it up on a medium temperature And that little piece I messed up, we'll grab and throw in here And you should always throw a test piece in now a lot of people use wooden spoons and different things But I'm still old-fashioned. I just grab a little bit of dough and throw in there when it starts to fry Sizzle and float and I do the same thing when I'm frying potatoes or squash or okra Once that grease gets good and that starts float around and getting brown then I know I can add stuff to it. Okay? I've got to get some sugar right quick y'all So it's looking good I'm also gonna make a pound cake tonight so me and Chris are gonna have plenty to eat Okay, we're ready to drop these are y'all ready we're gonna throw a little butter in here first Mama didn't do this either. But let me tell you I've learned that if you throw a little butter in your oil When you're dropping your pies, holy smokes, are they good? It makes some even better Now your oil should be hot But not too hot so that your dough doesn't over brown Because you want it to cook the dough So you don't want it too hot Let's drop our pies And this is a 10-inch skillet And it's easily gonna hold four. Okay, and see how it foams up like that. That's from the butter That's what the butter does to it. So you're really just cooking the bottom and then you don't flip it cook the other side Y'all so while these are getting brown it won't take them that long y'all we're gonna mix this up some cinnamon sugar So real quick We're gonna put us in some sugar Because we're gonna rub them in it and if these were pumpkin pie if I didn't use pumpkin pie spice I think that'd be even better this time of year But they'll be good no matter what we actually love sweet potatoes I got me a cooking pumpkin right here You see how pretty it is. It's even got a crooked handle. Isn't that the prettiest pumpkin you've ever seen? I got it on the side of the road in Florida So there's a some cinnamon sugar. We got to get over here and check on my y'all This recipe is on the website It may not be identical to the one I just did It's gonna be super close I don't know if I use brown sugar. I might just use plain sugar, but it's gonna be on the website Y'all under pies and cobblers you go to recipes and then pies and cobblers and you should find them in alphabetical order And you should be able to find sweet potato Fried pies and of course my sweet potato pies on there my granny's sweet potato pies on there We got the best sweet potato Casserole you will ever put in your mouth. I promise on there And we got some good recipes for the holidays, don't we Chris? Listen I Had somebody tell me the other day that volume ones recipes were really simple and ordinary and I got thinking I just went through there and Actually, I'm coming out with an edited new version of volume one Because when I wrote that cookbook, I had so much going on I was half crazy and the grammar and stuff is Lord have mercy. It's bad. But anyway, um All my homemade cakes are in there for the Thanksgiving Our homemade chicken and dressing is in there I mean I was there's so much good stuff in that cookbook And it's all of the things that we eat the most chicken and dumplings Benefield chicken My Italian cream cake that cannot be beat My mother's French not my mother's homemade coconut cake Whoa, it's a good cookbook Look at these pretty pies and I think fried apple pies might be in there. Okay, these are brown. Let's get them out We just got a few more to cook so what I do So once I will have the little Pretty, you know marks on it from the fork and then one side wall And as they cook the grease does break down to get a little hotter So once I start cooking you got to turn it down. You really do don't you pray? Fried pies just about anything the grease does Now You should be able to fry one batch And I'm still look pretty good without them turning black or ugly with bits of anything in the bottom of the skillet I'm gonna go ahead and show you all these I'm fixing them on the plate Get y'all over here in the light So y'all can see how pretty they look now It's kind of dark outside so it looks kind of dark over there at my oven but those are beautiful and golden Now what we're gonna do And I'm having to watch these other pies as we speak. We're gonna take the cinnamon sugar And we're just gonna roll them in it just like that Now my mama didn't do this, but I'm gonna tell you it's good me and Chris love them this way No, we Chris and you can make these fried pies any kind you want to make and you can freeze them I wrap them individually and in foil and Then I freeze them and y'all y'all can get them out and put them in the air fryer You can get them out of the freezer put them in the air fryer and they're just like you just fried them Oh, they're so good me and Chris freeze a lot of stuff like that. The air fryer is amazing for stuff like this For warm stuff like this. Look at that pie Just look at it. Don't y'all want to buy it? Look at that crunchy fluffy white lily flower crust All right. Look we're gonna get these other pies out right quick and then we're gonna eat one of those Before they get too brown Now these won't be as pretty Because they got in the oil once they have been used But I'm gonna tell you those taste good But I will give you a tip if you got old oil if you just don't hardly ever fry nothing If you've had oil in in your house for a while Oil doesn't go bad I went to my sister's house and I fried pies with some oil that she had y'all they were terrible They tasted like old oil and she thought I was crazy, but I wouldn't eat them. I Said see I told you so So we're gonna put some Cinnamon sugar on these We did real good we didn't really waste much now, let's open one up and Taste it. Let me show you how it looks So they're nice and crunchy on the outside now a lot of people make fried pies with pie dough, but a biscuit dough is super crunchy and light and fluffy See how that looks And you've got to make sure that that oil is turned down enough that the dough gets done and you can see it just looks Like a biscuit. It's like a butter biscuit because I fried in butter Let me turn this up Let's take a bite y'all. I bet it's gonna taste like it That's so good you want to come taste one Priya? It's not gonna be on camera tonight Man that's some good stuff If you bought that out somewhere at a festival If you tasted of it, you'd go back and pay $5 for one. That's how good they are. Oh My gosh, they're good. Look at that Okay, y'all. That's it Thanks for watching Collard Valley Cooks Where we cook like our mamas did y'all get in that kitchen mix you up some biscuit meats and get you some fried pies and make this Thanksgiving or for Halloween or whenever you want to do it. Boy. These are so delicious I'm not kidding. They're amazing this time of year We'll see you next time on Collard Valley Cooks Where we cook like mama did. Love y'all. Bye Come back and see us. Hit the like button Go get you a sift or two if you don't have one so that you can cut out these rounds