Maple-Glazed Yams with Pecan Topping
Need a gluten free, lacto ovo vegetarian, and fodmap friendly side dish? Maple-Glazed Yams with Pecan Topping could be an awesome recipe to try. This recipe serves 6 and costs $2.13 per serving. One portion of this dish contains approximately 6g of protein, 30g of fat, and a total of 660 calories. Plenty of people made this recipe, and 433 would say it hit the spot. If you have brown sugar, orange zest, yams, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is brought to you by Simply Recipes. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. All things considered, we decided this recipe deserves a spoonacular score of 78%. This score is solid. Try Bourbon Yams With Pecan Topping, Blackberry Crisp with Maple-Pecan Topping, and Maple Pork & Sweet Potatoes With Toasted Pecan Topping for similar recipes.
Servings: 6
Ingredients:
1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
6 Tbsp chilled butter, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon orange zest (optional)
1 1/2 cups pecans
Salt
3 lbs of yams (red-skinned sweet potatoes), peeled, cut into 1/4 inch rounds
Equipment:
oven
pot
baking pan
aluminum foil
blender
bowl
Cooking instruction summary:
1 Preheat the oven to 400°F. Heat a large pot of salted water (add a tablespoon of salt for every two quarts of water) until boiling. Add the yam rounds. Cook the yams until the water starts to simmer again, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat, drain, then rinse in cold water.2 Butter a baking dish. Arrange the yam rounds in the baking dish, overlapping the pieces, layering the yam rounds to fill up the dish. Sprinkle each layer liberally with salt. Sprinkle the yam rounds with orange zest if using. Pour maple syrup over yams. Dot with 2 Tbsp of the butter. Cover with aluminum foil and bake until yams are almost tender, about 20 minutes.3 Put 3/4 cup pecans in a blender or spice grinder and grind into a coarse meal. Coarsely chop the other 3/4 cup of pecans. 4 Mix the ground pecans and brown sugar together in a medium bowl. Using your fingers, mix in the remaining 4 Tbsp of butter until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. Mix in the chopped pecans.5 Sprinkle the pecan mixture over the yams. Bake the yams, uncovered, until the topping browns, about 15 minutes.
Step by step:
1. 1 Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2. Heat a large pot of salted water (add a tablespoon of salt for every two quarts of water) until boiling.
3. Add the yam rounds. Cook the yams until the water starts to simmer again, about 4 minutes.
4. Remove from heat, drain, then rinse in cold water.2 Butter a baking dish. Arrange the yam rounds in the baking dish, overlapping the pieces, layering the yam rounds to fill up the dish. Sprinkle each layer liberally with salt. Sprinkle the yam rounds with orange zest if using.
5. Pour maple syrup over yams. Dot with 2 Tbsp of the butter. Cover with aluminum foil and bake until yams are almost tender, about 20 minutes.3 Put 3/4 cup pecans in a blender or spice grinder and grind into a coarse meal. Coarsely chop the other 3/4 cup of pecans. 4
6. Mix the ground pecans and brown sugar together in a medium bowl. Using your fingers, mix in the remaining 4 Tbsp of butter until the mixture resembles a coarse meal.
7. Mix in the chopped pecans.5 Sprinkle the pecan mixture over the yams.
8. Bake the yams, uncovered, until the topping browns, about 15 minutes.
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