Popular Hawaiian island foods like yams or sweet potatoes are made more joyful for luaus and other festivals by adding authentic, locally grown Hawaiian flavors.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 4 cups |
Ingredients
- 2 ½ pounds yams, peeled and cubed
- 1 cup pineapple and orange juice blend
- 2 tablespoons softened butter
- ½ cup (packed) dark brown sugar
- ½ cup chopped macadamia nuts
Instructions
- Place yams into a large pot and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and allow to steam dry for a minute or two.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Return yams to the cooking pot, and mash with juice until smooth. Pack mashed yams into a 3 quart casserole dish, dot with butter, then sprinkle with brown sugar and nuts. Loosely cover with aluminum foil.
- Bake in preheated oven until hot and bubbly, 35 to 40 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 321 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 58 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 7 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 41 mg |
| Sugars | 18 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
More pineapple used crushed out of the can and it was very good.
I made this for the requested yam dish at Thanksgiving. This was simple and light. I’d make it again.
I made this for our early Thanksgiving today and it was really good! I would probably up the brown sugar and lower the OJ blend next time but it was very tasty. I used canned sweet potatos (shh…).
This is really good. I used 1/2 cup pineapple juice and 1/2 cup coconut milk. I also always use the stick blender to blend sweet potatoes/yams to smooth them out. This is divine.
We had a Hawaiian themed dinner. This was good for the theme, but I prefer traditional sweet potatoes. I don’t care for macademia nuts, but in this dish, it was pretty good.
I liked it! I added some leftover coconut milk (about 1/2 cup)and mixed it with the pineapple juice instead of orange juice. I also added cinnamon. I prefer it over the traditional marshmallow yam casserole.
This recipe is recommended. I added a pinch of cinnamon. My family liked it.
it was ok – I had a laua and had these….prob won’t make them again but they did serve it’s purpose
It wasn’t great, it wasn’t bad. – average flavor