The Best Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes

The Best Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes

These Easy Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes are covered in a sugar buttery mixture and baked until tender. It’s the perfect side dish for any table.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword candied yams, southern candied sweet potatoes

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 10

Servings people

Calories 659kcal

Author Tanya

Equipment

13x9 Baking Dish
Foil Paper

Ingredients

2 lbs sweet potatoes peeled and sliced about ½ inch thick
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup unsalted butter
¾ cup packed brown sugar
½ cup granulated white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 Tablespoons orange juice

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Lay Sweet Potatoes flat in a 13x9 casserole dish. Sprinkle the sweet potatoes with salt. Set aside.
Melt your butter over medium-low heat in a heavy-duty saucepan. Add sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg, and stir until your butter has melted and your sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and add the orange juice.
Pour the butter mixture over the sweet potatoes, making sure every single sweet potato is covered with the butter. Cover tightly with foil and place in your preheated oven.
Bake for 30 minutes with the foil on. After 30 minutes, remove the dish from the oven, remove foil and stir the sweet potatoes. Place back in the oven and bake uncovered for an additional 30 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are fork-tender.
Remove from the oven and allow the sweet potatoes to cool a bit. Serve and enjoy.

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Notes

You’ll absolutely want to make sure that every single potato is covered in that butter-sugar mixture. If not, it may result in some sweet potatoes being very tender and others not so much. That would be the worst.

The nutritional info may seem to be on the high side, but remember you're not eating all of the buttery syrup...unless you want to :)

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