How to Make Orange Ginger Glazed Sweet Potatoes

Everyone loves sweet potatoes for holiday dinners. This recipe provides a few different flavors to the traditional sweet potato dish. Orange juice mixed with ginger makes a sweet glaze that is also low fat.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 4 to 6 sweet potatoes
• 3 cups orange juice
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 tsp. powered ginger or 1 tablespoon fresh ginger
• 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp. white pepper
• 1/3 cup water and 1/3 cup cornstarch, mixed

1. Cut sweet potatoes into cubes and boil until tender. You can use canned sweet potatoes if you prefer.

2. Bring orange juice, brown sugar and spices to a rolling boil. You can use other combinations of juice, sugar, and spices such as pineapple juice and white sugar or apple juice and brown sugar.

3. Mix corn starch and water together and stir until completely dissolved.

4. Mix corn starch solution into the boiling orange juice solution and stir until thickened.

5. Pour orange glaze over sweet potatoes and mix.

6. Bake at 375 degrees F until heated through.

Tips & Warnings

• You can always add marshmallows, nuts, apples or anything you can think of to modify the recipe.