Candied Sweet Potato Recipe

This candied sweet potato recipe makes a delectable vegetable side dish to serve with a special holiday meal. Using one yellow and one orange sweet potato makes a beautiful and colorful dish, but you could also use two yellow (or two orange). I use Granny Smith apples when I can find them, but any tart crisp apples will do. The brown sugar-garlic-cider vinegar sauce is SO good! This recipe can easily be doubled.

6 Tbsp/90 mL melted butter

1/4 cup/60 mL brown sugar

1 Tbsp/15 mL cider vinegar

1/2 tsp/2 mL salt

1/4 tsp/1 mL pepper

1 clove garlic, pressed

2 cooking apples, cored and cut into chunks

2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks

1 medium-sized onion, peeled and cut into chunks

Preheat oven to 425F/220C.

In a large bowl, mix the butter, brown sugar, cider vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic.

Add the apples, sweet potato, yam, and onion to the bowl.
(When the cold vegetables meet the warm butter sauce, the sauce may turn gloppy. That's OK.)

Toss everything together well and transfer to a casserole dish.
Cover with foil. Bake for 30 minutes.
Remove the foil and bake until all of the vegetable are tender (approximately 30 minutes more).

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