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This video is about how to make Southern Baked Candied Yams Recipe How to make the best candied yams. Making these southern baked candied yams is super easy. Simply wash the yams, peel & cut them, then pour the delicious & very fragrant candied mixture all over the yams, then bake them!
Southern baked candied yams is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Southern baked candied yams is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have southern baked candied yams using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Southern baked candied yams:
- Prepare 4 large sweet potatoes
- Get 1 stick unsalted butter
- Get 2 cup granulated sugar
- Get 1/4 cup Heavy whipping cream
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 1/2 tbsp real maple syrup
- Get 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp nutmeg
If marshmallows are desired, sprinkle them over the yams and continue baking until the marshmallows melt and are slightly brown. Candied yams are a classic Southern side dish! Sweet potatoes are chopped up and sugared down, then put into the oven to become tender, caramelized, and oh, so wonderful. "There is an idea prevalent that anybody can cook sweet potatoes, this is a very great mistake, and the many, many dishes of illy. Candied yams are a classic Southern side dish, especially when it comes to Thanksgiving.
Instructions to make Southern baked candied yams:
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Wash and dry yams
- Peel yams.
- Slice yams into ½ thick circles.
- Place into a 12 x 9 casserole dish. Set aside
- In a medium size pot, melt butter over medium heat.
- Add sugar and stir until well blended
- Add whipping cream and stir until creamy
- Stir in cinnamon, nutmeg, maple, and vanilla extract.
- TASTE THE MIXTURE AND MAKE SURE IT TASTES YUMMY. ADD MORE SPICES IF NEEDED
- Pour mixture over yams
- Cover with foil and back for 40 minutes.
- Remove foil and bake for an additional 20-25 minutes.
- Plate and spoon syrupy sauce over the yams. Serve immediately.
Uncover and gently stir potato mixture.. Sweet potatoes baked in a spiced, sugar syrup. We eat a lot of sweet potatoes here in the Deep South, and especially in Mississippi and Louisiana, because they are state crops for us, fresh and in abundance. … Candied Yams - You'll need these ingredients. I did them the day before just to have them ready. If you need help with baking your potatoes, check out our post on how to bake them that we did sometime back here on Taste of Southern: Baked Sweet Potatoes.
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