Every Christmas, someone asks my mother for the recipe for her candied sweet potatoes with orange juice. She has surely mastered it after 53 years!
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 servings |
Ingredients
- 6 medium sweet potatoes
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 whole cloves, or more to taste
Instructions
- Place sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender but not mushy, 18 to 20 minutes. Drain. Peel sweet potatoes and cut in half lengthwise. Discard skins.
- Combine brown sugar, butter, orange juice, salt, and cloves in a large skillet or electric frying pan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes until syrupy. Arrange potato halves in the syrup and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove cloves from syrup before serving, if you wish.
- You can use 1/2 orange juice and 1/2 pineapple juice if you’d like.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 238 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 42 g |
| Cholesterol | 20 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 166 mg |
| Sugars | 23 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Sweet Joseph and Mary, please thank your mother for passing on this amazing recipe. It’s fantastic. Simply put, if you are middle aged, this is what you grew up with. Don’t look at the calories, just enjoy. After 24 years, my husband said that this was the best sweet potatoes I’d ever made. So thank you. It takes a lot to get that man to praise my cooking.
I can’t wait to make this it sounds so much like the old fashioned potatoes sweet potatoes rather I grew up with. I have a question though can I use canned yams instead of fresh yams and how would that change as far as cooking those in the pan?
I smashed mine in the syrup instead of leaving in chunks and it came out good. I love the flavor of the orange juice and cloves and the simplicity of the recipe. Next time I want to mash them I’ll use powdered cloves, though.
Very yummy. I will probably make these again.