Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes are a wonderful fall side dish. Thick sweet potato slices are covered in a butter and sugar mixture and baked until soft.
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Southern
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Ingredients
1/2cupsalted butter
3/4cupwhite sugar
1/2cuppacked brown sugar
1teaspooncinnamon
1/2teaspoonground ginger
1/2teaspoonnutmeg
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
5largesweet potatoes,peeled and cut into 1/3 to 1/2-inch slices
1/2teaspoonsalt
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Melt butter in a saucepan. Add white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Stir and heat until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat. Add the vanilla extract.
Place sweet potato slices in a 9x13-inch baking dish. Sprinkle with salt.
Stir vanilla into the butter mixture and pour over sweet potatoes.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes.
Remove pan from oven. Spoon the butter mixture over the potatoes.