Sweet Potato Pone Belize Food

SWEET POTATO PONE AKA POTATO POUND OF BELIZE

Steps:

• Grease a 9x13 pyrex dish.
• Preheat oven to 450.
• Wash, peel, and grate sweet potatoes.
• In large bowl, combine sweet potatoes, ginger, raisins, cinnamon, sugar and vanilla.
• Mix well.
• Add milk and butter; stirring to incorporate throughout mixture.
• Pour into pyrex dish.
• Bake on the bottom shelf of your oven for 30 minutes.
• Lower oven temperature to 350.
• Move dish to top shelf.
• Cook for an additional hour until top is brown, knife comes out clean.
• The top will look very sticky.

SWEET POTATO PONE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly spray a 9-inch square baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
• Whisk together the butter with the brown sugar and molasses in a bowl. Whisk in the eggs, half-and-half and vanilla until smooth. Stir in the salt, spices, orange zest and juice. Fold in the sweet potatoes. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish, then smooth the top and cover with foil.
• Bake until the center is set and the potatoes are soft, about 40 minutes. Remove the foil and bake until bubbling and starting to brown on the edges, another 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool to room temperature. Serve chilled or at room temperature with the Eggnog Whipped Cream.
• Add the whipping cream, confectioners' sugar and nutmeg to the chilled bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or a chilled large bowl if using a hand mixer) and whisk on high speed until soft peaks form, about 2 minutes. Fold in the eggnog.

SWEET POTATO PONE (BELIZE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Beat potatoes, sugar and coconut milk in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until sugar is completely dissolved. Add evaporated milk, ginger and vanilla; mix until well blended.
• Spoon into greased 13x9-inch baking dish.
• Bake 1 hour or until center is set. Sprinkle with the coconut. Serve warm or cold. Cover and refrigerate any leftovers.

SWEET POTATO PONE (CAJUN)

Steps:

• FOR THE PONE: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F, then butter a 9"x9"x2" baking dish.
• In a mixing bowl, with a hand-held mixer, cream the sugar & butter, then gradually beat in the molasses & orange juice.
• In another container, from the 1 lemon, mince the zest & set it aside while removing & discarding the white pith from the lemon. After that, seed the lemon & chop the pulp fine, before adding this pulp to the sugar/butter mixture, along with the orange zest, eggs, seasonings & brandy, mixing well to combine.
• Add the grated sweet potatoes & mix well, then smooth this mixture into the prepared baking dish & bake for 1 hour.
• FOR THE CANDIED LEMON SLICES: Meanwhile, cut the 2 lemons crosswise into 1/8-inch slices & remove the seeds.
• In a covered pan, boil the sugar with the water for 5 minutes, then remove the cover & boil rapidly until syrup reaches the soft-ball stage (236 degrees F), then remove the pan from the heat.
• Dip lemon slices in the syrup & put them on a baking sheet to dry until ready to use.
• As soon as the pone is done, transfer the entire pone square to a rack to cool.
• When cooled, cut into 12 bars & top each with a candied lemon slice.