While I do love a simple baked sweet potato with butter and salt, I must confess that I LOVE "Candied" Sweet Potatoes. I don't make them often, for obvious reasons, but oh my GOODNESS they are so yummy!!!!! (and SUPER easy to make!!)
Ingredients:
6 large sweet potatoes
1/2 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
salt to taste
Directions:
Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into slices. (or buy the frozen sliced ones)
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.
I cook mine in the oven and they turn out just fine...if you'd rather cook them that way...just lay some tinfoil over the baking dish so that the potatoes don't dry out.
Enjoy!
K
