If you want the easiest and tastiest holiday side dish around then you need to whip up this minimal ingredient Candied Sweet Potatoes!
Sweet potatoes for us are a staple this time of year. I prefer my sweet potatoes sweet rather that savory. That is why I love Candied Sweet Potatoes.
This recipe always makes it way onto our dinner table during our holiday gatherings. Everyone loves them and the best part they are amazingly simple to make.
I love easy recipes and this is why these Candied Sweet Potatoes are one of the ones that we choose to make most often for our gatherings.
Some of our other favorite sweet potato and potato recipes we have on our site include Brown Sugar and Bacon Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes Au Gratin and Herb Roasted Sweet Potatoes.
All of these potato recipes are great for your holiday meals or any side dish to your favorite meal, we make them all the time, but we just love potatoes.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
- Minimal ingredients help this dish come together quickly.
- You don’t have to pre bake or boil the potatoes beforehand.
- You can easily double or halve this batch for how many people you’re serving.
HOW TO MAKE CANDIED SWEET POTATOES, STEP BY STEP:
- Peel and cut sweet potatoes into ½ inch thick slices. Place the potatoes into the baking dish and sprinkle with the salt, set aside.
- In a small saucepan, add the butter, brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Place on the stove over medium-low heat, stir occasionally. Bring to a simmer, simmer 2 minutes stirring occasionally.
- Pour mixture over the potatoes making sure all the exposed potatoes are covered in the sauce.
- Cover with foil, bake at 350 degrees F 30 minutes. Take the foil off, stir, bake uncovered for an additional 30 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before serving. Liquid will thicken as it cools.
See how easy that is? They key to this is to let is sit so that sauce can thicken, nothing is worse than runny Candied Sweet Potatoes, although it happens.
The glaze for theses are absolutely delicious and have just minimal ingredients that any bakers or cooks have on hand, or they are easily attainable from your local grocer.
Besides these Candied Sweet Potatoes some of my other favorite sides for the holidays include Pineapple Casserole, Tater Green Bean Casserole and Italian Sausage Stuffing.
Just look at that ooey gooey sticky goodness. Trust me if you’ve never had these sweet potatoes then you are completely missing out. If you are a fan of Sweet Potato Casserole, this just goes a step further on the sweetness.
If you don’t want so much sauce o these you can absolutely reduce it or just add some more sweet potatoes, but I love the sauce so we always keep it at this ratio.
The potatoes turn out nice and tender and just are a really delicious dish that I HIGHLY encourage you to whip up for your next gathering.
WHAT ARE CANDIED SWEET POTATOES?
Simplified Candied Sweet Potatoes are just sweet potatoes that are tossed in a brown sugar, butter and spice mixture that is baked.
There is nothing really special about them, they are candied because of the mixture as it cooks it thickens and coats the sweet potatoes and essentially “candies” them.
So there in a nut shell you have the definition of what this delicious dish actually is!
HOW TO STORE:
Cover and store this recipe in an airtight container such as a Tupperware container and store in the refrigerator for up to one week. The sauce will thicken, but you can microwave your servings and the sauce will thin out.
You can also freeze this dish, prepare everything and bake in an freezer safe dish and then cover with Saran Wrap and then foil and place the freezer.
This will last up to 3 months. Let thaw overnight in the refrigerator and them pop them into the oven at 350 degrees F for about 20-25 minutes until everything is heated through.
We like to freeze these when we make smaller batches that way we have something to have for a quick and easy fall weeknight side dish.
Usually there really isn’t anything leftover when we make these but here are the steps you need to take for the proper storage so they don’t go bad before you get the chance to eat them!
TIPS AND TRICKS:
- Yams are the same thing as sweet potatoes, they are just a variety of sweet potato.
- You can swap out the molasses in this recipe with maple syrup.
- These can be frozen, see my tips above on that.
- You can half or double this recipe deepening on how many people you are serving.
If you want that perfect Thanksgiving side dish then I highly recommend that you whip up these Candied Sweet Potatoes, everyone will go nuts for them.
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Candied Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 2 pounds sweet potatoes
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 8 Tbs unsalted butter
- 1 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Spray a 9x13 inch baking pan with cooking spray, set aside.
- Peel and cut sweet potatoes into ½ inch thick slices. Place the potatoes into the baking dish and sprinkle with the salt, set aside.
- In a small saucepan, add the butter, brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Place on the stove over medium-low heat, stir occasionally. Bring to a simmer, simmer for 2 minutes stirring occasionally. Pour mixture over the potatoes making sure all the exposed potatoes are covered in the sauce.
- Cover with foil, bake for 30 minutes. Take the foil off, stir, bake uncovered for an additional 30 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before serving. Liquid will thicken as it cools.
Notes
- Yams are the same thing as sweet potatoes, they are just a variety of sweet potato.
- You can swap out the molasses in this recipe with maple syrup.
- These can be frozen, see my tips above on that.
- You can half or double this recipe deepening on how many people you are serving.
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