Purple Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

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I am so excited to share this amazing Purple Sweet Potato Pie recipe. Not only is it beautiful, but it is also delicious and easy to make.

My friend chef Monique Chan and I cooked this amazing Thanksgiving recipe. I am so excited to have a new addition to our annual Thanksgiving menu!

Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
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Chef Monique Chan

I am so fortunate that occasionally Chef Monique comes to my home to bake with me. Chef Monique, since graduating as valedictorian of her pastry school in Paris, has ceaselessly pursued excellence, working in the renowned bakery, Dominique Ansel Bakery, five-star hotel Le Bristol Paris and multiple Michelin star restaurants, Epicure and The French Laundry. These achievements culminated in her role as Executive Pastry Chef of the gastronomic restaurant Écriture in Hong Kong, which received two Michelin stars in a record-breaking seven months after opening. So she knows a thing or two about baking!

To find Monique’s Instagram click here and to find her blog The Real Chez Momo, click here.

Purple Sweet Potato Pie

Purple Sweet Potato Pie, The Crust

I had never baked a Purple Sweet Potato Pie before and this was easy to make and so delicious. It is also the prettiest color of any menu item ever! This is the perfect item to add to your Thanksgiving menu and will taste fabulous with turkey and dressing. It’s a lot savory and a little bit sweet, creating the perfect Thanksgiving bite!

This Purple Sweet Potato Pie recipe can be modified to use regular sweet potatoes or yams. You just need to reduce the sugar.

Monique’s purple sweet potato pie recipe has two parts, the crust, and the filling. Monique used a simplified version of her pie crust recipe which we made a few years ago for the Pear and Almond Cream Bourdaloue Pie.

If you are looking for a great pie crust recipe for all of your holiday baking needs, Monique’s pie crust recipe is a keeper.

Easy Pie Crust by Monique

If you look closely at this pie, you can see the butter in the dough. Yum.

Cooking the Pie Crust

To pre-bake the crust, Monique placed parchment paper inside the crust and filled it with white sugar. This holds the crust in place and you can also re-use the sugar. She also covered the edges of the crust with aluminum foil.

Purple Sweet Potato Pie, The Filling

While the crust was baking, Monique prepared the purple sweet potato pie filling. It is so easy. You do need to pre-bake the purple sweet potatoes first. Then, just load the blender with the ingredients and blend! 

Have you ever made anything in your kitchen that looked like this? Isn’t the color amazing?

Ingredients for Purple Sweet Potato Pie

Once it’s mixed in the blender, just pour the batter into the partially baked shell.

How incredible does this look? Can you believe the color of this pie filling? Wow!

How to Make Easy Purple Sweet Potato Pie

A Baking Tip From Chef Monique

Have you ever made a pumpkin pie and the crust on the bottom was soggy?  Look at what Monique did! She placed the glass pie plate on a sheet pan and set it on the bottom of the oven, not on an oven rack. This helps to cook the crust in the center and prevent a soggy crust and works with a glass pie plate.

How to Make Purple Sweet Potato Pie

Once the pie is baked, let the pie cool. At this point, you can leave it as is or you can have some fun and decorate the pie.

Yield: Two 9" crusts

Purple Sweet Potato Pie

Give Thanks with Sweet Potato Pie
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Additional Time 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • C R U S T:
  • 394 g (3 1/8 cup) flour
  • 19 g (1 1/2 tablespoons) sugar
  • 6 g (1 teaspoon) salt
  • 282 g (1 1/4 cups) butter
  • 1 cup of ice water
  • F I L L I N G :
  • 500 g (2 cups mashed) cooked* purple sweet potatoes (i.e. Stokes or Okinawan) or purple
  • yams (i.e. Ube)
  • 2 large eggs
  • 57 g (4 tablespoons) melted butter
  • 400 mL (1 can) coconut milk
  • 177 mL (3/4 cup, or half a regular size can) evaporated milk
  • 100 g (1/2 cup) sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Crust

  1. Stir flour, sugar, and salt together until well mixed.
  2. Dice butter into small cubes, and toss in flour mixture. Break up butter chunks until they are slightly larger than the size of peas.
  3. Add 1/2 cup of ice water and mix. Then, add water in small increments, targeting any dry spots. Mix until dough can form shaggy clumps when squeezed together. You will most likely need up to 1/4 cup ice water more, but add it one tablespoon at a time.
  4. Divide dough in half, and form each half into a disc. Wrap both discs in cling film, and refrigerate for at least one hour before using. Overnight is preferable, to hydrate the flour and relax the gluten. (If keeping the dough in the fridge for longer than a day, or freezing it for storage, use a second layer of plastic wrap.) Dough will keep up to 1 week in the refrigerator, and up to 2 months in the freezer.
  5. When ready to use, roll the dough out to a 14 inch (diameter) round. Flour dough and table surface as necessary, and work quickly to keep dough cold. Rotate dough while rolling to maintain circle shape, and prevent dough from sticking to the table.
  6. Once the round is 14 inches, transfer it to the pie plate, and gently line the pie pan with the dough. Trim excess to have an overhang of 1 inch; then roll the overhang underneath to form an edge. Crimp edge as desired, and freeze the crust for at least 1 hour before baking.
  7. For this filling, we will blind bake the crust for ~30 minutes at 375 F, or until edges turn light brown.
  8. Using all ingredients at room temperature, place everything into a blender or food processor, and blend until smooth. Pour into prepared (blind baked) pie shell, and bake in a preheated 350 F oven for ~40 minutes, or until just set (no longer jiggly). The internal temperature should be 200 F. For convection ovens, bake at 325 F for ~30 minutes. If using a glass pie dish, place on the bottom of the oven to enhance browning.
  9. * To cook purple sweet potatoes or purple yams: scrub the skins to remove any dirt, then rinse and dry. Use a paring knife to carefully poke a few vents in each potato or yam for steam to escape. Place in a baking dish and seal the top with foil. Bake in a preheated 400 F oven for at least ~ 45 minutes, or until tender and can be easily pierced with a knife. Let cool before removing skins.





Easy Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

Decorate With Luster Paint

Monique used a brush, a few stamps (you can also use stencils), and luster dust to paint the Purple Sweet Potato Pie. Here is another tip from Chef Monique, to make “luster paint” use a capful of vodka (or clear extract) and mix it with the luster dust. This allows you to paint it on the pie! Why use vodka? Because it evaporates.

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In addition to my amazing Purple Sweet Potato Pie recipe, I have joined some bloggers and we are sharing thirteen of our favorite Thanksgiving recipes.

13 of The Best Thanksgiving Recipes

Pan Fried Brussels Sprouts with Bacon – The Happy Housie

Purple Sweet Potato Pie Recipe – My 100 Year Old Home

Gnocchi with Squash and Walnuts in a Sage Butter Sauce – Lemon Grove Lane

Fall Spiced Whiskey Sour – Modern Glam

Easy and Flavorful Stuffed Mushroom Recipe – Twelve On Main

Caramel Apple Pie Recipe – Jennifer Maune

Zucchini Casserole Recipe – Happy Happy Nester

Dairy-Free Green Bean Casserole – Zevy Joy

Easy Classic Thanksgiving Stuffing – Rooms For Rent

Southern Style Green Beans – A Blue Nest

Rustic Sheet Pan Vegetables – My Sweet Savannah

Homemade Orange Cranberry Sauce – Finding Lovely

Becker Family Macaroni & Cheese – Sincerely, Marie

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26 Comments

  1. I have never been so astonished by a recipe and technique as your post on the purple sweet potato pie! That color! I also couldn’t get over baking your pie on the bottom of the oven. I have never seen that done but I’m ready to give it a try. 😋Thanks for such a mind blowing post!

  2. That is one of the most unique and beautiful pies I have ever seen. And the luster dust sends it over the top. I have never cooked purple sweet potatoes but will be giving this recipe a try.
    Love your posts and your recipes!

  3. Do you use both dough discs together to form the crust or do you save one of the discs to cover or use for another pie?

  4. Wow! What a beautiful pie. The color is stunning! Totally going to make this; hopefully I can find the purple sweet potatoes.

  5. Wow…I’d love to see the faces of people as you presented this gorgeous purple pie on Thanksgiving. Surprise and delight at such a new pie tradition to add to any thanksgiving feast!

  6. What a beautiful pie! Can’t wait to give this a try! Thank you for sharing the recipe and this amazing chef. Happy Saturday!

  7. In part of your post, you say,
    “To pre-bake the crust, Monique placed parchment paper inside the crust and filled it with white sugar. This holds the crust in place and you can also re-use the sugar. She also covered the edges of the crust with aluminum foil.”
    Just how do you bake a pie shell full of white sugar, and re-use the sugar??? LOL
    Maybe instead, you fill the parchment-lined shell with dried beans. You can re-use those nicely.

  8. I made this recipe immediately after seeing it!
    I noticed that the potatoes do not retain the color that they do in the photo, and in the pie, they turn a purple-ish-grey color. That, I realized, is natural. The pie’s taste, overall, is very different from an orange sweet potato pie. It has a lot less flavor, and a flavor much more reminiscent of a traditional russet than a sweet potato, with a bit of a nutty aftertaste. To be completely open and honest, I am not sure I used the right purple sweet potato. Make sure you check your potato types!
    Overall, a good pie, but very different from the image and description. As an amature, I recommend this recipe!

  9. Where is the filling recipe? I see the crust recipe then nothing about the filling. I have bought all the ingredients and I am stuck! Your blog just keeps bringing up the same crust recipe, then nothing. HELP!!

    1. Hi Shaz! It’s on the blog if you scroll to where the recipe is listed- I copy and pasted it below for you ☺️

      F I L L I N G :
      500 g (2 cups mashed) cooked* purple sweet potatoes (i.e. Stokes or Okinawan) or purple
      yams (i.e. Ube)
      2 large eggs
      57 g (4 tablespoons) melted butter
      400 mL (1 can) coconut milk
      177 mL (3/4 cup, or half a regular size can) evaporated milk
      100 g (1/2 cup) sugar
      1 teaspoon vanilla extract
      1 teaspoon cinnamon
      3/4 teaspoon salt
      Instructions
      Crust

      Stir flour, sugar, and salt together until well mixed.
      Dice butter into small cubes, and toss in flour mixture. Break up butter chunks until they are slightly larger than the size of peas.
      Add 1/2 cup of ice water and mix. Then, add water in small increments, targeting any dry spots. Mix until dough can form shaggy clumps when squeezed together. You will most likely need up to 1/4 cup ice water more, but add it one tablespoon at a time.
      Divide dough in half, and form each half into a disc. Wrap both discs in cling film, and refrigerate for at least one hour before using. Overnight is preferable, to hydrate the flour and relax the gluten. (If keeping the dough in the fridge for longer than a day, or freezing it for storage, use a second layer of plastic wrap.) Dough will keep up to 1 week in the refrigerator, and up to 2 months in the freezer.
      When ready to use, roll the dough out to a 14 inch (diameter) round. Flour dough and table surface as necessary, and work quickly to keep dough cold. Rotate dough while rolling to maintain circle shape, and prevent dough from sticking to the table.
      Once the round is 14 inches, transfer it to the pie plate, and gently line the pie pan with the dough. Trim excess to have an overhang of 1 inch; then roll the overhang underneath to form an edge. Crimp edge as desired, and freeze the crust for at least 1 hour before baking.
      For this filling, we will blind bake the crust for ~30 minutes at 375 F, or until edges turn light brown.
      Using all ingredients at room temperature, place everything into a blender or food processor, and blend until smooth. Pour into prepared (blind baked) pie shell, and bake in a preheated 350 F oven for ~40 minutes, or until just set (no longer jiggly). The internal temperature should be 200 F. For convection ovens, bake at 325 F for ~30 minutes. If using a glass pie dish, place on the bottom of the oven to enhance browning.

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