Candied Baked Sweet Potatoes Oven Or Grill Recipes

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.

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.

Steps:

• Boil sweet potatoes in skins for 15 minutes, rinse with cool water and remove skins.
• Mix brown sugar and water in sauce pan, and boil together for 5-minutes, stirring frequently forming a syrup.
• Add butter and stir until dissolved. Add salt and remove from heat.
• Cut sweet potatoes in quarters lengthwise with cut side down in a.
• greased 9"x12" baking dish.
• Poor syrup mixture over the sweet potatoes, cover them and bake at a 350° F oven for 60-minutes.
• Baste sweet potatoes with syrup in the pan.
• Turn them over every 10-minutes.
• Remove from oven.
• Optional: serve with or without butter.