CANDIED SWEET POTATOES
These perfect candied sweet potatoes are soft, buttery, extra saucy, caramelized, and sweet. I especially love this Thanksgiving side dish because you can prepare the elements of this recipe ahead of time AND purchase the ingredients in advance, too.
Provided by Sally
Categories Dinner
Time 1h25m
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Peel then slice the sweet potatoes into 1/2 inch thick slices. Place in a greased 9×13 inch or other 3 quart baking dish. Sprinkle salt on top and toss to coat. I just use nonstick spray to grease.
- Preheat oven to 375°F (191°C).
- Cut stick of butter in half. (Helps it melt easier.) Combine all the butter, water, maple syrup, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger into a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir until the butter has melted. Stop stirring and bring to a gentle boil. Boil for 2 minutes without stirring. Remove sauce from heat and stir in the vanilla extract. (And orange zest, if using.)
- Pour sauce over potatoes and toss to coat.
- Bake for 1 hour, stopping and stirring the sweet potatoes every 20 minutes. After the first 20 minutes, I cover the dish with aluminum foil so the potatoes bake evenly.
- Remove from the oven, sprinkle with rosemary and sea salt (if using), then cool uncovered for 10 minutes before serving. The sauce is thin right out of the oven but thickens as it cools.
- Cover and store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Sauce will be thick after refrigeration, but thins out as you warm the leftovers up. Simply warm in the microwave.
CLASSIC CANDIED SWEET POTATOES
This is the classic sweet potato recipe that my grandmother serves each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's very simple, yet each time I make it people rave and ask for the recipe. Embarrassingly simple & quite delicious!
Provided by MICHELLERENE
Categories Side Dish Vegetables Sweet Potatoes
Time 1h50m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 5
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.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 294 calories, Carbohydrate 47.2 g, Cholesterol 30.5 mg, Fat 11.7 g, Fiber 3.2 g, Protein 2.1 g, SaturatedFat 7.3 g, Sodium 415.2 mg, Sugar 33 g
EASY CANDIED SWEET POTATOES - FOR NOW AND LATER!
Ours is a 2 person household. My roomie is my Pops (since Mom's passed) and he putters around all day til I get home from work, then we have dinner together. To keep him active and involved, I try to make things that he can pull from the freezer and put in the oven, thereby "cooking dinner" for me, which makes us both feel great....
Provided by Shelia Baker
Categories Potatoes
Time 2h
Number Of Ingredients 2
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
Traditional sweet potato recipe. It is usually served as a side dish.
Provided by Pam Reed
Categories Side Dish Casseroles Sweet Potato Casserole Recipes
Time 1h20m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 7
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.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 396.9 calories, Carbohydrate 79.4 g, Cholesterol 20.3 mg, Fat 7.9 g, Fiber 7 g, Protein 3.7 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, Sodium 179.5 mg, Sugar 43 g
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