The Perfect Southern Candied Yams | Thanksgiving Side Dish | Best Candied Yams |Holidays Recipes

I'm starting to speak now, I'm starting to speak now, I'm starting to speak now, I'm Hi guys it's Jody welcome back to my channel today I've got another amazing recipe for you all I'm going to make some candied yam yes I'm telling you i love candied yam I make it a few times and trust me the flavor is just everything it is super delicious and it's just so so so so yummy if you haven't tried candied yam before well guys here is the video I hope you make it for your family guys please don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my YouTube channel if you haven't already and hit your notification button for whenever I upload a video you will be the first to see it ok. Thank you all so much in advance. So guys here I have 4 large sweet potatoes. I also have at least 1 cup of my brown sugar and 1 cup of my granulated sugar. These are my spices. Here I have 1 half teaspoon of my ginger powder. I also have 1 teaspoon of my cinnamon powder and half teaspoon of my all spice. Yes. Also gonna add some vanilla. This is at least 1 teaspoon and 1 orange. Yes. Guys the orange is just gonna give it a nice nice flavor with all that juice. Oh my gosh it's gonna be super super yummy. Now I'm just gonna peel my potato. What I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna give them a wash. So now I'm gonna cut it up like so. Don't wanna cut it you know too thick. Just gonna put them in my bowl right here. So now guys I'm gonna make my syrup for my candied yam. First I'm gonna add some butter to my pan. I'm gonna add at least 1 cup of my unsalted butter. So after my butter is melt it does have to be perfect. I'm gonna add my sugar. My stove is on a medium heat. Try not to turn up your stove too high. Then I'm gonna add all my spices. My vanilla. And I'm also gonna add my orange. I'm gonna squeeze that juice. Now allow it to come to a boil. I'm just gonna add just a pinch of my salt. You see guys it has come to a boil. I'm gonna turn my stove off. Smells so good. I'm just gonna finish it off with some more butter. At least over 2 tablespoons. So guys I'm gonna bake my candied yam. So what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna add just a bit of my syrup to the bottom. Yeah like so. This looks so good. Spread it out. As you can see I'm just that's done. So now I'm gonna add my syrup and I'm gonna put it in my oven guys for at least 35 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. You can put your oven to 400 to 350 degrees. I'm gonna pour it on. Oh my gosh this looks so good. I'm telling you this right here guys. Your families, your friends, everyone is gonna enjoy it. Trust me. It's gonna be so so yummy. I'm just gonna finish it off with some more of my cinnamon powder and in the oven it goes. super delicious. It's been baking in my oven for at least 35 minutes. Try to feel it okay because you don't want it to be super super soft. As you can see the fork go right through. Oh my gosh guys it looks so so so good. Look at that. Perfect. Guys now I'm just gonna add my candied yam onto my plate right there. Oh my gosh look at that. This is so yummy. Mmm mmm mmm. So my candied yam is all plated up and guys make sure you add some of that delicious delicious syrup all over it. I'm telling you I cannot wait for you guys to try this recipe. If you try it please don't forget to comment below and tell me what it's like and also remember to give this video a thumbs up. I thank you all so much for watching. Until next time bye and enjoy.