Easy Sweet Potato Recipe for the Thanksgiving Holiday Dinner

J.A. McLynne
J.A. McLynne, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Nov 19, 2010 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
Thanksgiving would not be complete without a side dish of sweet potatoes. Here is an easy glazed sweet potato recipe from grandma that will round out your next holiday dinner.
Category
Side Dish
Cuisine
American
Main Ingredients
Baking
Occasion
Thanksgiving
Prep Time
1 hrs  
Cook Time
1 hrs  
Total Time
2 hrs  

Ingredients

Serves 6
3 lbs. 3 Sweet Potatoes
4 oz. Butter
6 oz. Brown Sugar
1 tsp. Salt and Pepper to taste
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Directions for Easy Sweet Potato Recipe for the Thanksgiving Holiday Dinner

1
Boil, Cool and Peel the Sweet Potatoes
Grab a couple good sized sweet potatoes and boil them in water with the skin on for about 20 to 30 minutes. Boil the sweet potatoes until they are tender. Remove them from the boiling water when you can poke through them to the center with a chopstick or a fork.

Let the sweet potatoes cool to room temperature. Do not put them in the refrigerator to quicken the cooling process, or they will turn gummy.

Peel the skin off of the sweet potatoes once they have cooled off to room temperature.

2
Slice, Glaze, and Season the Sweet Potatoes
Slice the sweet potatoes into half inch pieces and lay them out flat in a 13 x 9 inch baking dish. You can use a similar sized dish if you do not have one of the exact dimension

Top each piece of sweet potato with a dab of butter and one teaspoon of brown sugar.

Sprinkle the prepared sweet potatoes with salt and pepper to taste.

3
Bake the Sweet Potatoes
Place the baking dish of sweet potatoes in the oven and cook at 375 degree for about 30 minutes.
Tip
Sweet potatoes are a mainstay dish for any Thanksgiving meal. There are a variety of ways to prepare sweet potatoes. Many sweet potato recipes for Thanksgiving involve the use of marshmallows. According to theoldfoodie.com, the practice of cooking sweet potatoes with marshmallows for Thanksgiving dinner dates back to early 1900's. Tthis is still a popular way to prepare sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving meal. But every kid in my house knows that Grandma's sweet potato recipe is always the best for our Thanksgiving meal. Preparing sweet potatoes for a Thanksgiving feast does not have to be a complicated process. You only need a few ingredients: sweet potatoes, butter, brown sugar, salt and pepper.

The butter and brown sugar topping will melt and form a sweet glaze atop the sweet potatoes that your whole family will enjoy.

Source for Recipe: Grandma, and the old foodie website ttp://www.theoldfoodie.com/2009/11/thanksgiving-food-sweet-potato.html

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