Easy Candied Sweet Potatoes Food

EASY CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Layer the sweet potato slices in a buttered microwave and oven proof casserole dish with a lid.
• Add the zest, juice, sugar, butter and salt, stir and cover and microwave for about 5 or 6 minutes or until the potatoes test done.
• Just before serving top with marshmallows and bake in a 400* oven until the marshmallows are the color you like.

CLASSIC CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place whole sweet potatoes in a steamer over a couple of inches of boiling water, and cover. Cook until tender, about 30 minutes. Drain and cool.
• Peel, and slice sweet potatoes lengthwise into 1/2 inch slices. Place in a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt butter, brown sugar, water and salt. When the sauce is bubbly and sugar is dissolved, pour over potatoes.
• Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, occasionally basting the sweet potatoes with the brown sugar sauce.

QUICK & EASY CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Pour sweet potatoes with liquid into 2-qt. saucepan.
• Cook until heated through.
• Drain liquid.
• While sweet potatoes are heating, combine butter or margarine and brown sugar in 1-qt saucepan and cook until hot but not boiling.
• Add nuts to sauce, if desired, and pour over hot sweet potatoes.
• Stir just to coat.
• Serve immediately.
• One cup miniature marshallows may be added on top of dish just before serving and placed under the oven brouker until golden brown.

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Peel and slice sweet potatoes. Put in a large pot of lightly salted water. Bring to a boil. Boil 5 minutes, drain and cool. Put sweet potatoes into a 2 quart casserole, dot with the butter. Mix sugar with next 8 ingredients and mix well. Sprinkle over sweet potatoes. Pour orange juice and lemon juice over sweet potatoes. Cover with the sliced oranges. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add potatoes and boil until slightly underdone, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and peel.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine margarine, brown sugar, 2 cups marshmallows, cinnamon and nutmeg. Cook, stirring occasionally, until marshmallows are melted.
• Stir potatoes into marshmallow sauce. While stirring mash about half of the potatoes, and break the others into bite-sized chunks. Transfer to prepared dish.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cover top evenly with remaining marshmallows. Return to oven and bake until marshmallows are golden brown.

CLASSIC CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Scrub sweet potatoes, but do not peel. Place potatoes in 3-quart saucepan. Add enough water just to cover. Heat to boiling; reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 20 to 25 minutes or until tender. Drain; cool slightly. Slip off skins. Cut into 1/2-inch slices.
• Heat remaining ingredients in 10-inch skillet over medium heat, stirring constantly, until smooth and bubbly. Add potatoes. Gently stir until glazed and hot.

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES WITH MARSHMALLOWS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place sweet potatoes in a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain.
• Place 1/2 of the sweet potatoes in a medium mixing bowl. Mash, then mix in condensed milk, butter, and cinnamon. Add remaining sweet potato cubes and sprinkle in all but 1 tablespoon brown sugar; stir gently to combine but not so much that the sugar dissolves. Transfer potato mixture to a 2-quart baking dish, top with marshmallows, and sprinkle remaining brown sugar on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until marshmallows are golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes.

QUICK AND EASY CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Place potatoes in a buttered 1 1/2 quart casserole.
• Combine brown sugar, butter, salt, and water; heat to dissolve sugar. Pour brown sugar syrup over sweet potatoes.
• Bake at 375F, basting frequently until bubbly.

STOVETOP CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Boil cut-up sweet potatoes until tender, about 10 minutes.
• Melt butter and brown sugar together in a frying pan until bubbly. Add orange juice and stir until smooth. Add the sweet potatoes and cook slowly, turning occasionally until caramelized, about 20 minutes.

EASY STOVE TOP CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Put all ingredients into a nice sized pot.
• Cover and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to a medium-low, stirring not to burn.
• Cook until nice and thick, about 45 minutes.
• They will get nice and thick as they cool down some.

EASY CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Cut up each sweet potato in large chunks.
• In an electric skillet, put potatoes, butter, and brown sugar in.
• Cook on 200 degrees F or low heat for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.

REALLY REALLY GOOD CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Cover potatoes with water, bring to a boil.
• Lower heat and simmer for 25 minutes, until done.
• When cooled, peel and cut into chunks.
• Place in 2-qt baking dish.
• In small saucepan combine remaining ingredients, cook and stir until mixture boils.
• Pour over potatoes.
• Bake at 350°F for 40 minutes.

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Bake potatoes in a 400 degree oven for 45 minutes, turning them over after 30 minutes. The potatoes should be taken out of the oven before they are fully cooked.
• Allow to cool until you can peel potatoes and slice in half lengthwise. Place them in a baking pan in a single layer.
• In a small saucepan, heat brown sugar and water, stirring constantly until it boils for 3 minutes. Add butter and stir until melted.
• Pour syrup over potatoes.
• Bake for 35 minutes in 325 degree oven, turning potatoes often in the syrup.

EASY CANDIED SWEET POTATOES - FOR NOW AND LATER!

Steps:

• 1. You will need: •Sweet Potatoes (you can make one or six or more, but try to get firm, blemish-free spuds) • Butter or margarine, in stick form, straight from the freezer (or at least really, really cold, so it slices better) •Sugar (allow about 1/8 cup per potato) •Cinnamon (maybe 1 teaspoon per potato) •Baking sheet lined with a Silpat or parchment paper (or waxed paper or foil or whatever you have handy to make cleanup easy!) •Aluminum foil pan(s) for freezing, if you're making more than one potato. Plan on one pan per potato per meal •Lids or foil to cover pans with, for freezing •Non-stick cooking spray •Permanent marker to mark the pans with the date & contents (and reheating instructions, if you like) •Sharp knife(s) (I always have 2 knives-a longer one for slicing, and a paring knife for peeling) •Cutting Board
• 2. What to do... •Pick a day that you have a few hours of free time •Wash your potatoes and pat dry •Turn the oven on to 400 degrees •Arrange your potatoes on the baking sheet. Leave enough room between them, if you're doing more than one, for good airflow. I find as long as they're not touching, they do best. •Slide them into the oven and bake until each one has juices oozing out (see why we cover our baking sheet?? :)) This should take a good hour, maybe more, depending on how many you're baking. •Take a nice glass of something to drink outside and enjoy some you-time. The potatoes will take care of themselves for a while. If you're a Type A person, run some errands or mow the lawn. You've got some time to kill here. •When they're all good and done (yes, if you must, you can stick a fork in them to check..lol), pull them out and let them sit on a heat-proof trivet or something (I leave mine on top of my stove) until they cool. You want them cool enough so that they don't melt your butter pats.
• 3. •Go do laundry. Or garden. Or read a book...it's going to take awhile for these babies to cool properly. Now for the "candy" part. (and the messy part, too!) •Pull a bowl out of the cupboard for mixing sugar & cinnamon in, one that you can hold in one hand comfortably and still fit the other inside it to mix the ingredients. My go-to bowl is a Corelle cereal bowl. •Add sugar & cinnamon to it, in the above ratios for however many potatoes you're doing (or do what I do: dump some sugar in the bowl until it looks like enough and sprinkle cinnamon over that "sugar mountain" until the top is covered). Stick your hand in the bowl and give it a good mix, making sure that you work the bottom of the bowl because the cinnamon tends to "hide" under the sugar and you won't know that it's unmixed until you start using it. You know it's all good when you can no longer tell where the sugar stops and the cinnamon starts. Set aside. (PS: I call this stuff "candy sand", but I'm weird that way. Call it whatever you like, but make sure you have enough!) •Lay out your pans and spray each one with non-stick spray. •Bring your cooled potatoes to your working area. Gather your knives and cutting board.
• 4. •Working with one tater at a time, use your longer knife and slice enough off each end to remove the root and pointy parts. You shouldn't ever need to lop off more than an inch here. •Eyeball your victim and decide how many equal sized slices you can get out of it (between 1/2" and 1" thick is best--more or less than that and you have issues later, trust me). Shoot for ¾" thick slices and start cutting. You want the long knife so that you don't have to "saw" the short blade through the thicker part of the potato, which will destroy your slices. •Pick up each slice, carefully so it doesn't break on you, and slide your "peeling" knife under the skin of the potato. Rotate as you peel (kind of like peeling an apple) and when you've gotten the whole ring of peel removed, discard it, and lay the potato slice in your foil pan. •Do this with each slice you've made. You might run out of real estate in your pan if you're using small pans-no worries, the slices are stackable. Just try to keep them "offset" so that you can get butter and "candy sand" on some portion of each slice. • After all your potatoes are peeled and panned, wash up!  You do not want to be handling sugar & cinnamon with tater juice/mush on your hands. Your fingers will stick together like they've been super-glued!
• 5. •Ok, now that our hands are clean and dry again, haul out the butter from the freezer or fridge, and using your slicing knife, carve it up. You want thin slices here-no more than 1/8" thick. Seriously. It's enough. •Place a slice of butter on each potato slice. I can get enough slices from one stick of butter to do 6 or 7 pans of potatoes. Yes, really. •Wash up again. Butter and sugar are great together, just not stuck to your fingers while you're trying to work. •Remember back to your childhood and playing in the sandbox. I hope you played in the sandbox or this part of the explanation's not going to make much sense to you. •Grab your sugar bowl and hold it close to the pan you want to start with. Take a fistful of sand-I mean sugar/cinnamon-and let it run from the bottom of your fist over the potatoes, right over the butter pats, trying for a nice even layer. It'll feel just like the sandbox days, trust me! Any that gets down between the slices is going to make the best "sauce" later, so don't fret when it doesn't stay where you put it. •Repeat for each pan.
• 6. •This is a good point to mention: A) I usually make 6 potatoes at a time, which gives me at least 6 foil pans of potatoes for the freezer (sometimes 7, depending on how the slices come out), which is 6 side dishes I don't have to "fix" later. For ALL this I use maybe 1 cup of sugar and probably a tablespoon of cinnamon, and one stick of butter, as mentioned before, so it's not as sweet as you may first think. And B) if you're worried the first time out about having enough sugar to go around, use a measuring cup to scoop out even amounts, and sprinkle those over your potatoes. If you have sugar left over, go around again. I'm pretty sure you can't get too much of this stuff on there ...sidebar complete...now back to the directions: •Wash the sugar off your hands and lid up your pans (or cover with foil if that's what you prefer). Mark each one with the date and contents. •Stack them in the freezer and when you need an easy, tasty side dish, pull one out. •Remove the lid or foil. •Slide it into the oven alongside whatever protein you're serving that night and leave it alone for an hour. The potatoes will be hot and the "candy" will be set, and there will be a nice syrup in the bottom of the pan that you can drizzle back over the potatoes once they're on the plate. •Enjoy! (and remember to accept all the compliments gracefully)

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.