Candied sweet potatoes?

[Midlife]

I'm wanting to duplicate a pumpkin pie recipe I saw on America's Test Kitchen that called for "candied sweet potatoes". I bought a can of yams in sweet syrup but I think I need to do more with them. Can I just add some butter, sugar and cinnamon and cook for a while, or is there an 'official' formula for 'candying' these things?

[mtomto]

Why not also go Google-ing for Candies Sweet Poatoes, even Yams, to yield almost an endless number of recipes/preparations. You're sure to find something you like that way, often with photos of the end dish. Good Luck.

[classylady]

You can make candied sweet potatoes using honey or brown sugar, orange juice and cinnamon. Boil the potatoes until they can be poked with a fork. Slice them and add the above ingredients. Bake them for about 40 minutes. I put dots of butter or margarine on top.

[bushwickgirl]

Yes, I use a variation of this, from great Southern chef Bill Neal, but just bake the peeled and cut up sweet potatoes raw with orange juice, brown sugar and cinnamon. A little rum doesn't hurt. Delicious and easy, the juice makes a nice glaze.

The OP should dump the syrup in the can and start from fresh ingredients, that syrup doesn't have much flavor. Or use some of the syrup for a glaze base, but it needs fixing up. Since the canned yams are precooked, make a glaze first and reheat the yams in it in the oven until hot.

[Midlife]

Thanks but I thought I'd explained that what I have is a can of already cooked yams in sweet syrup and I just need to doctor them up a bit I think. The recipes on line all seem to begin with uncooked potatoes. I got the idea of butter, brown sugar and cinnamon from those recipes and was just checking here to see how to adapt them to an already cooked product.

[bushwickgirl]

Strain out the syrup in the can, use about half, add some brown sugar, butter and cinnamon, reduce that down a bit until thickened, pour over potatoes and heat in oven until hot. A little squeeze of lemon or a few lemon slices added to while baking are nice with sweet potatoes.

[Midlife]

Yup. That's what I thought. many thanks! Sorry I didn't read all of your first post.

[bushwickgirl]

No prob, hope it works out.