Candied Yams Recipe | Simple Easy Recipe

[Music] [Music] hey what's up y'all simple easy candy yams i'm about to show y'all how to make the most amazing candy yams in the world simple and easy ain't no tour but to do it guys please subscribe to my youtube channel and watch this video like and subscribe i got y'all i promise all right guys i've already washed and dried my potatoes and remember always wash and dry your potatoes even before you peel them because these things come from dirt so they be dirty and then we're going to wash them again so you definitely want to take and pull your potatoes and you want to make sure that you pull them deep enough to get that like white layer that's under there um off so you get to this nice orange looking layer on your potatoes clean your potatoes peel your potatoes and then we're going to go back and clean them all up and we're going to get all the spots and stuff out of them because we don't want the dark black spots in our potatoes either [Music] you want to dig these eyes out because it's hard to mess up some candy yams i know people mess up a lot of things you messing up candy yams you're gonna need them i'm gonna need to make a house call if you messing up kdms i'ma need to come through take your candy yams we got our black spots out now you definitely want to pat them dry candy yams hold a lot of water okay a little more than your regular potato someone kind of pat those dry and you want to be careful when you're cutting these okay so i'm gonna simply cut down and they're really hard they hardened some brick now most people like to cut their yams like this okay i tend to like to cut my yams and like little squares because i'm finding candy i'm on all four sides all through the middle okay and if you like those um silver dollar size or pinwheel once that's fine i just like to take mine and get bite-sized pieces okay so we're gonna take like a stick and a half of butter real salted butter and i'm gonna use salted butter in here because i don't want to add any salt if you use unsalted butter what does that mean then you're going to have to add salt because sweet potatoes need just a tad bit of salt to bring out that sweetness to them okay then i got one extra fully packed cup of brown sugar and we're gonna put that in and i tend to i like to use the dark brown sugar on my candy and recipe okay and we're gonna make it epic and once you get your brown sugar in there next thing you want to do is you want to add your white sugar okay so in a pot [Music] i got brown sugar butter and i got white sugar okay then i'm gonna take and i'm gonna add one whole tablespoon of real vanilla y'all gonna learn today okay then i'm gonna take and add two tablespoons of chef carmen's gourmet sweet potato pie seasoning okay oh y'all gonna learn today [Music] what you want to do is coat your potatoes with that mixture of brown sugar and butter chef carmen's gourmet seasoning i'm going to show you why they're going to show you better i can tell you how to candy some yams y'all going to learn today who did you want to take spray your dish just like that there yes sir okay we're going to take our candied yams and what we're going to do we're going to place them in our dish gel like that y'all see all that amazing syrup that caramelization all it is is caramel sure that's all it is y'all gonna learn today you gotta cover your potatoes or they're not going to have that flavor and once you get them in there you want to stir those around now that all of our sweet potatoes have been candied pre-candid and we're going to simply take and we're going to completely cover our pan with full okay and we're going to place this in a 350 degree oven for about an hour [Music] okay so let's get in here and take a look it's been cooking about an hour oh wow [Music] okay so now we're going to place them back down in the oven and let them cook for about 20 minutes uncooked and let them thicken up [Music] let me get in here and take a bite for y'all man i got y'all i promise [Music] you

Channel: Chef Carmen ATL

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Id: eaEDwf50IOg

Length: 6min 14sec (374 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 17 2021