Easiest Way to Make Any-night-of-the-week Maple Candied Yams

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, maple candied yams. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Maple Candied Yams is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Maple Candied Yams is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have maple candied yams using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Maple Candied Yams:

1. Make ready 1 stick butter
2. Prepare 5 large yams or sweet potatoes
3. Take 1/2 cup maple syrup
4. Take 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
5. Take 1 tsp cinnamon or vanilla
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp freshly grated ginger
8. Get 1/2 tsp sea salt
9. Get 1/4 cup water
10. Get 2 1/2 cup mini marshmallows (optional)

Steps to make Maple Candied Yams:

1. Preheat oven 400°F.
2. Peel yams. Cut into 1 inch cubes or wedges.
3. Arranage yams in generously buttered 9x13 baking dish.
4. In a saucepan, melt butter and stir in sugar until dissolved over medium heat. Add water and spices.
5. Bring to a boil, add syrup; reduce heat to a simmer and cook 2 minutes.
6. Pour butter mixture over yams, turning them to coat well.
7. Cover pan tightly with alumunum foil and bake on center rack, basting potatoes once or twice during baking. Bake 45 minutes or until fork tender.
8. When the potatoes are done, remove foil and bake on the upper third of oven at 475°F for about 20 minutes.
9. As syrup thickens and potatoes start to caramelize watch carefully to avoid burning. Reduce temp if browning to quickly.
10. Note: If adding marshmallows, spread them over the top and broil an additional 5-10 minutes or until lightly browned.
11. Variation: Use honey or Karo instead of maple; add 1/4 cup frozen orange concentrate.

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