Soul Food Style Baked Candied Yams
These Southern candied yams are baked until tender in a buttery brown sugar glaze with cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, ginger, and cloves. An easy soul food side dish perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Sunday dinner.
Servings 8 servings
Ingredients
- 5 medium sized yams I use Red Garnet yams
- 8 tbsp salted butter softened
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground clove
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar light or dark
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract not imitation
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Wash the yams.
- Peel then chop the yams (make sure that they are about 1/2 inch thick).
- Place the yams into a 9x13 baking dish.
- Place the butter into a medium-sized pot and melt it over medium heat.
- Once the butter is melted, sprinkle in the white & brown sugar, ground cinnamon,ground nutmeg, ground ginger, and ground clove.
- Turn the stove off, mix the ingredients until the sugar is dissolved, then add in the vanilla extract.
- Pour the candied mixture over the yams and try to coat all the yams with the buttery brown sugar glaze.
- Next, cover the baking dish with foil and bake the yams in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Remove the yams from the oven and baste them with the candied mixture. Mix with a spoon so the glaze evenly covers all the yam slices.
- Cover the yams and continue baking for another 15-20 minutes.
- Remove the yams from the oven - they should now be super tender and soft. Let them sit for about 10 minutes before serving (the glaze with thicken up).
- Enjoy!