Candied Sweet Potatoes
Candied Sweet Potatoes

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, candied sweet potatoes. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Candied Sweet Potatoes is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Candied Sweet Potatoes is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Sweet potatoes are parboiled and then baked with a sweet sauce of margarine, brown sugar, marshmallows, cinnamon and nutmeg. These candied sweet potatoes are called Daigaku Imo in Japanese, and they are a sweet snack made of deep-fried Japanese sweet potatoes that are covered in a hard sugar candy coating. Candied sweet potatoes are a relatively light alternative to a heavier sweet potato casserole.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have candied sweet potatoes using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Candied Sweet Potatoes:
  1. Get 5 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced into 1/2" rounds
  2. Get 1/2 tsp. salt
  3. Get 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, sliced in half
  4. Get 1 cup brown sugar
  5. Make ready 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
  6. Take 2 tbsp water
  7. Take 3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
  8. Take 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
  9. Get 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
  10. Prepare 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Place the sweet potatoes in a Dutch oven and cover with water. Wash and peel the sweet potatoes. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and cook. Candied sweet potatoes are not the side dish you spoon onto your plate for a wholesome dose of veggies.

Steps to make Candied Sweet Potatoes:
  1. Place the sliced potatoes into a greased 9x13" baking pan and sprinkle the salt over them. Toss to coat and preheat the oven to 375°F. In a small saucepan, place the remaining ingredients except for the vanilla over medium-high heat and stir until the butter has melted and its come to a low boil.
  2. Let it boil, undisturbed, for 2 minutes, then remove it from the heat, stir in the vanilla and pour it evenly over the potatoes. Give them a toss, then place them into the oven for a total time of 1 hour. After the first 20 minutes, take them out, give them a stir and cover the pan with foil for the remaining baking time. Take them out to stir again at the 40 minute mark.
  3. Once the hour is up, the potatoes should be very tender. The sauce will seem very thin, but will thicken as they cool. Let them cool uncovered for 10 or so minutes, then serve.

In fact, with a dollop of whipped cream, these could be billed as dessert. Candied Sweet Potatoes - tender sweet potatoes bathed in a glossy fragrant buttery brown sugar glaze with a zesty hint of lemon and orange. Can be served as a holiday side dish or as a dessert! candied sweet potatoes Side Dish Soul Food. Sweet potatoes are available in varieties ranging from pale skin with light yellow flesh to dark orange or red skin and flesh. Cut each potato half lengthwise into fourths.

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