These candied sweet potatoes are seriously simple to make. If you can dump a few ingredients into a greased baking dish and push a few buttons on your oven, you can make these sweet potatoes to a candied perfection.
Check out what my pals over at Old Fashioned Families had to say about yams versus sweet potatoes:
I remember growing up that these candied Sweet potatoes were a part offer holiday meal growing up. We only got them on those days never any other time, so I really looked forward to them. I have made them for my family for 3o years now.
As silly as this may seem to some of you, I always thought sweet potatoes and yams were the same thing! I am glad that I now know the stinkin’ truth.
Ingredients
6 medium Sized Sweet Potatoes
⅓ cup Kerrygold Butter (can substitute margarine)
⅓ cup packed Domino brown sugar
teaspoon Morton Salt
Instructions
Get Sweet potatoes cleaned and ready to go and put in a pot of salted boiling water, cook 30 to 35 minutes until fork tender. Let your sweet potatoes cool a bit, then peel and cut into quarters.
Melt the butter in a skillet (I find a well-seasoned cast iron skillet works very well for this if you have it), add brown sugar and salt and cook until it comes to a boil. Add your sweet potatoes in and cook over medium heat until the potatoes are well caramelized. Turn potatoes often, and spoon the candied sauce over them frequently. For an added to special touch you can put regular size marshmallows on these and put them under a broiler until toasted.
(notes: I normally use a ½ cup of butter and brown sugar for this recipe as I don’t find that the ⅓ cup is enough.)
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Quick Tip: I like to add a few handfuls of miniature marshmallows to the top of my candied sweet potatoes. Brown them in the oven.
Thank you to Old Fashioned Families for this great recipe.
