Candied Yams Or Sweet Potatoes Food

CLASSIC CANDIED YAMS RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Layer sweet potato slices in a lightly greased 13- x 9-inch baking dish.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium. Add sugars, stirring until well combined. Stir in cream; cook, stirring often, just until mixture comes to a simmer, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla extract, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg.
• Pour sugar mixture evenly over sweet potatoes, and cover with lightly greased aluminum foil.
• Bake, covered, in preheated oven, about 40 minutes. Uncover and gently stir potato mixture. Bake, uncovered, until potatoes are tender, 25 to 30 more minutes. Transfer potatoes to a serving bowl with a slotted spoon; pour syrup over potatoes. Serve immediately.

CANDIED YAMS

Steps:

• Simmer the remaining ingredients: Mix the remaining ingredients (orange juice, brown sugar, ground ginger, cinnamon, butter) in a shallow, wide sauté pan and bring to a boil on high heat.

SEET'S YUMMY CANDIED YAMS OR SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Drain the yams.
• In a shallow baking dish mash one can of yams and leave the other can of yams in pieces (This is more of a personal preferance, you can leave both cans in pieces if you wish).
• Pour orange juice over the yams.
• Sprinkle on brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Dot with butter or margarine.
• Top the yams with marshmallows.
• Bake 30 minutes or until marshmallows have melted.
• Be sure to watch the yams the last 5 minutes because the marshmellows can burn.

CANDIED YAMS OR SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Boil yams or sweet potatoes until just tender.
• Peel and cut length-wise into 1/2-inch slices.
• In medium skillet or electric frying pan, combine sugar, butter, cream and salt; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until smooth and bubbly.
• Add yams; turn gently until glazed and thoroughly heated.

SOUTHERN CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into slices.
• Melt the butter in a heavy skillet and add the sliced sweet potatoes.
• Mix the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Cover the sweet potatoes with sugar mixture and stir. Cover skillet, reduce heat to low and cook for about 1 hour or until potatoes are "candied". They should be tender but a little hard around the edges. Also the sauce will turn dark. You will need to stir occasionally during the cooking. Stir in the vanilla just before serving. Serve hot.

CANDIED YAMS OR SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Peel and quarter the yams or sweet potatoes.
• Place all of the ingredients into a large pot and cook the potatoes on top of the stove over medium heat and stirring every so often until potatoes are soft.
• Also, don't be afraid of adding more brown sugar and/or orange juice if needed. The ingredients need to cover the potatoes.

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Drain off liquid from potatoes. Cut into bite sized pieces or leave as packed.
• Dot with butter. Sprinkle brown sugar over all. Add pecans if using.
• Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle marshmallows. Place back in oven for another 5-10 minutes.