Best 7 Sticky Sweet Potatoes Recipes

SOUTHERN CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into slices.
• Melt the butter in a heavy skillet and add the sliced sweet potatoes.
• Mix the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Cover the sweet potatoes with sugar mixture and stir. Cover skillet, reduce heat to low and cook for about 1 hour or until potatoes are "candied". They should be tender but a little hard around the edges. Also the sauce will turn dark. You will need to stir occasionally during the cooking. Stir in the vanilla just before serving. Serve hot.

GLAZED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• If using fresh sweet potatoes, place in a large saucepan or Dutch oven; cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook 25-40 minutes or until tender. Drain; cool slightly and peel. Cut into chunks., Preheat oven to 350°. Place sweet potatoes in a 2-qt. baking dish. In a small saucepan, combine butter, syrup, brown sugar and cinnamon; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Pour over potatoes. , Bake, uncovered, 30-40 minutes or until heated through.

BAKED SWEET POTATO STICKS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
• In a large bowl, mix olive oil and paprika. Add potato sticks, and stir by hand to coat. Place on the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake 40 minutes in the preheated oven.

STICKY SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°; butter a 2 quart casserole; place potatoes in casserole in overlapping layers; set aside.
• In a saucepan, combine the remaining ingredients; bring to a low boil; decrease heat to low and stir until well blended and smooth, about 5 minutes.
• Pour the mixture evenly over the potatoes, cover, and bake, basting from time to time, until the potatoes are tender, about 50 minutes.
• Let the casserole stand at room temperature about 5 minutes before serving.

BAKED SWEET POTATO STICKS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450F.
• Lightly oil a baking sheet or spray with a nonstick cooking spray.
• Cut sweet potatoes into strips (resembling french fries). Place on prepared baking sheet in a single layer.
• Spray lightly with nonstick cooking spray.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Bake 10 minutes, then stir potatoes and bake 10 minutes more, or until done to taste.

NIAN GAO (BAKED SWEET POTATO STICKY RICE CAKES)

Steps:

• Combine the glutinous rice flour and ¾ cup/180 grams water in a bowl to form a dough. Cover tightly and refrigerate for at least 6 hours and up to 24 hours.
• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Wash and scrub the sweet potatoes and pat them dry thoroughly with a clean kitchen towel. With a fork, poke holes all over the sweet potatoes. Bake on a foil-lined pan until a fork can pierce it with no resistance, 40 to 50 minutes.
• When cool enough to handle, peel off the skin. Pass the sweet potato through a ricer or mash with a fork. Measure out 1¼ cups/320 grams of the mashed sweet potato. (Reserve any remaining for another use.)
• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine coconut milk, sugar and salt in a large saucepan. Set the saucepan over medium-low heat, and whisk until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is hot but not boiling, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the butter, stirring until it melts. Mix in the sweet potato mash, followed by the tapioca starch, then add the refrigerated wet glutinous rice flour gradually in chunks, whisking as you go. Add the egg and whisk until smooth.
• Heat 1 or more kuih bahulu pans in the oven until very hot, 7 to 8 minutes. If you don't have a kuih bahulu pan, a decorative cakelet pan or mini muffin tin made out of cast iron or aluminum works (see Tip). The batter yields 24 to 42 nian gao, depending on the size of the hollows; work in batches if needed (see Tip). Remove the pan from the oven and, using a silicone or pastry brush, lightly and quickly brush its hollows with oil. Stir batter, then quickly pour it into the hollows, filling them 80 to 90 percent full.
• Bake on the center rack until golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted into the center of one emerges moist and sticky, but with no pasty raw batter on it, 20 to 40 minutes. The exact baking time will vary depending on the size and heft of your pan.
• Use a wooden skewer or butter knife to pry out and remove the nian gao from the pan. If the pan was properly heated and oiled, the nian gao will not stick. If needed, repeat with the remaining batter. If the pan cools off too much while you are removing a batch of nian gao, heat it for a couple of minutes in the oven before baking the next batch.
• These nian gao are best served slightly warm while the edges are still crisp and the centres are soft and chewy. They are best the same day they are made. You can keep leftovers in a covered container in the refrigerator and steam, pan-fry or microwave them to reheat the next day, but they will not completely recover their freshly cooked texture.

SWEET POTATO STICKY BUNS

Steps:

• Remove the yams and syrup from the can. Mash the yams in a small bowl using a fork and set aside. (This will be about 1 cup.) Place 1/2 cup of the yam syrup into a large mixing bowl. Add the milk, brown sugar and yeast. Stir and let set a couple of minutes. To this mixture add 2 tablespoons of butter, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla, salt, and the 1 cup of mashed sweet potatoes. Stir all ingredients together using a baker's bread whisk or heavy spoon. Add 1 cup of flour and mix inches Add the second cup of flour and mix. The flour should now be added in 1/4 cup increments until the dough pulls together as a ball. Flour a work surface and remove the dough ball from the bowl.
• Gently knead the dough with a fold down toward you, push back with the heels of your hand type motion, carefully folding and flipping the dough for about 6 to 8 minutes or until it is satiny and a depressed finger spot springs back. Clean out the mixing bowl and grease it with the remaining melted butter. Rub some of the melted butter on the top of the dough; cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Allow to sit in a warm place for 1 1/2 hours or until double in bulk.
• Remove the dough from the bowl and place again on a lightly floured surface. Allow to rest while you make the glaze and filling.
• To make the glaze and prepare the pan: with a pastry brush grease the inside of a 9x10-inch round or square baking pan using 1 tablespoon of the melted butter. Combine the rest of the ingredients in a small bowl and cover the bottom of the prepared pan and spread out across a bit up the sides.
• To make the filling, combine the pecans, brown sugar, and spice in a small bowl. Roll the dough out to a 12x12-inch rectangle. Brush the dough with the melted butter. Spread the praline filling evenly across the dough. Roll up jellyroll style so that you end with a 12-inch roll. Slice the roll into 12 even pieces. (The easiest way is to cut the dough in half, and those in half again - and then in thirds.) Place the cut rolls into the prepared pan, so that the swirl of filling is visible on top. (They can also be refrigerated at this point until ready to bake.) Allow the rolls to rise and become "puffy" before baking. This step is important to achieve a light texture on the finished rolls.
• Place in oven, turn oven to 350ºF and bake 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven, allow to cool for 2 minutes, cover with a large platter, and flip pan over so the sticky buns are now sticky side-up. Enjoy! Chef's Note: Use caution when flipping the cooked sticky buns over because the filling and syrup are extremely hot. If the buns don't come out of the pan easily simply place in a warm oven to remelt the glaze and the buns should fall right out.