Sweet Potatoes With Orange Glaze Food

~ ORANGE GLAZED SWEET POTATOES ~

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Place potatoes in a pan of salted water and cook for 30 minutes or until tender. Peel, cube and place in a greased casserole dish. In a saucepan, melt butter and mix in corn starch and stir until smooth. Add the orange juice, sugars and salt. Over medium heat, cook until thickened. Pour sauce evenly over potatoes and bake for 30 minutes. Serve immediately. This sauce can be prepared a few days ahead to save you time in the kitchen. It's also great served over chicken and ham. Enjoy!

ORANGE-GLAZED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook sweet potatoes in boiling water until tender but still hold their shape, about 5 minutes; drain. Arrange in a buttered 2-qt. baking dish so slices overlap slightly. , In a saucepan, combine juice, butter, sugar, syrup, zest and spices; bring to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium; cook until thickened, about 5 minutes. Drizzle over potatoes., In a small bowl, combine oats, sugar and cinnamon. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in pecans. Sprinkle over potatoes. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes.

ORANGE GLAZED SWEET POTATOES WITH PECANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375. Bake potatoes until very tender -- about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Let cool, and reduce oven heat to 350.
• Scoop potatoes out of peels and mash until desired texture. Stir in remaining ingredients and place in casserole dish (9 X 9).
• Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle over potatoes. Bake until done at 350 -- about 1/2 hours.
• Optional: stud with 9 pecan halves at even intervals before returning to oven, just to make it look pretty.

ORANGE GLAZED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Peel and slice potatoes about 1 inch thick. Arrange in lightly greased 1 1/2 quart casserole dish.
• In small saucepan, stir together sugar, cornstarch, salt and orange peel.
• Slowly stir orange juice into the sugar mixture.
• Add butter. Cook stirring constantly until mixture boils and thickens. Boil and stir about 1 minute.
• Pour hot orange sauce over sweet potatoes. Cover and bake 1 hour, basting occasionally.
• Note: During Christmas I often bake the potatoes and prepare the sauce ahead of time. I then reheat the sauce, assemble and bake for about 30 minutes at 350F until heated through. Can be topped with marshmallows if desired.

SWEET POTATOES WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Spread slices of sweet potatoes in a greased metal dish of 13 inches x 9 inches. Set aside.
• In a measuring cup, mix brown sugar, butter, orange zest and juice, ginger, salt, pepper. Cover and heat in microwave, at high power, for about 1 minute or until butter has melted and brown sugar is dissolved. Mix well and pour on the sweet potatoes.
• Cook in a preheated oven of 375 F for about 45 minutes or until sweet potatoes are tender (baste with orange glaze sometimes during cooking). Keep cooking under preheated grill for about 3 minutes or until sweet potatoes are golden and glazed. When ready to serve, sprinkle with green onions.

SWEET POTATO PIE COOKIES WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F and adjust racks to the middle position. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, and salt.
• Using a hand held mixer cream together the butter, granulated sugar and the brown sugar until light and fluffy and the volume has increased. Add the egg and the vanilla and mix until incorporated. Stir in the sweet potato puree and blend until smooth. Beat in the dry ingredients in increments and combine well. Stir in the pecans.
• Drop by heaping tablespoons onto the prepared cookie sheets, leaving about 2 inches of space between each cookie. Bake until the cookies are lightly golden around the edges and they spring back from the touch, about 18 minutes. Let cool completely on the cookie sheets before glazing.
• For the glaze:
• Combine the confectioners' sugar, orange juice, and vanilla in a small bowl and stir until smooth. Drizzle over the cookies and let harden for 1 hour before serving.
• Cook's Note: If you need to thin the glaze, add more orange juice. If you need to thicken it, add more confectioners' sugar.

ORANGE MARMALADE GLAZED YAMS OR SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat Oven to 350 degrees F.
• 2. Drain Yams, reserving syrup.
• 3. Place yams side by side into a 8" x 8" baking dish.
• 4. Mix the marmalade with the reserved syrup.
• 5. Boil the mixture, stirring constantly, until it is the consistency of corn syrup.
• 6. Pour over the sweet potatoes.
• 7. Dot butter over top.
• 8. Sprinkle the top with coconut.
• 9. Bake 10 minutes covered with foil . remove foil and bake 5-10 minutes longer or until the coconut is golden.

ORANGE GLAZED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Pare and halve sweet potatoes.
• Combine peel, juice, corn syrup, and brown sugar.
• Add sweet potatoes, boiling water, and salt to a large saucepan. Simmer, covered, until tender; this should take about 15 minutes. Drain off liquid, leaving 1/4 cup in skillet. Dot potatoes with butter or margarine. Pour orange juice mixture over potatoes, and add orange slices. Cook, uncovered, over low heat until glazed, an additional 15 minutes. Baste often, and turn once while cooking.

ORANGE-GLAZED PORK WITH SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Peel sweet potatoes; core apples. Cut potatoes, apples and orange crosswise into 1/4-in.-thick slices. Arrange in a foil-lined 15x10x1-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast 10 minutes., Meanwhile, in a microwave-safe bowl, mix orange juice, brown sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon and ginger. Microwave, covered, on high, stirring every 30 seconds until thickened, 1-2 minutes. Stir until smooth., Place pork over sweet potato mixture; drizzle with orange juice mixture. Roast until a thermometer inserted in pork reads 145° and sweet potatoes and apples are tender, 45-55 minutes longer. Remove from oven; tent with foil. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.

SWEET POTATO CAKE WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 10-in tube pan with removable bottom. Tap out excess flour.
• Place pecan halves on bottom of pan in even layer.
• Using colander, drain sweet potatoes well.
• In a bowl, mash potatoes until smooth.
• In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger and salt.
• In large bowl, with electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and sugars 2 minutes, until fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in buttermilk, vanilla and mashed potatoes.
• With mixer on low speed, gradually add flour mixture, beat on medium speed until well blended. Spoon batter into prepared pan; spread evenly. Bake 60 to 65 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool on rack 15 minutes. Run knife around edges; remove pan sides. Cool completely.
• Run long, sharp knife carefully under bottom of cake between pan and pecans. Turn cake out onto cake plate, pecan side up.
• Glaze: In small saucepan, over high heat, combine sugar and orange juice. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and boil until thick and syrupy, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in zest.
• Brush over pecans, letting some glaze run down sides of cake.

ROASTED SWEET POTATOES WITH ORANGE MARMALADE AND BALSAMIC GLAZE

Steps:

• heat oven to 375
• Lay the sweet potatoes out in a single layer on a roasting tray. Drizzle the oil, salt and pepper over the potatoes. Roast for 25 to 30 minutes in oven or until tender.
• In a saucepan reduce the vinegar by half, then add honey, marmelade and ginger. Stir to combine.
• When potatoes are roasted, remove and toss to coat with marmelade mixture.