Asian Candied Yams

Candied yams are a central part of most families’ Thanksgiving meals. The reason I created the "Asian candied yams" is that in the Asian cuisine, we have candied yams throughout the year for snacking. I want to add this recipe to the traditional Westerners’ Thanksgiving recipe for candied yams because Asian cuisine recipe has to be made from scratch with no exceptions.  It also has fresh ginger and honey, which are the two ingredients that are good together.  I hope that these Asian candied yams are always at the center of everyone’s Thanksgiving meal.

Ingredients:

2 lbs. sweet potatoes

4 cups water

Candied sauce ingredients:

2 cups water

1 cup honey

1 tbs chopped fresh ginger

Juice and zest of one lemon

1/4 tsp salt

Directions:

Peel and cut sweet potatoes into 3 inch-long sticks that are 1/2 inch thick.

Bring water and potato sticks to boil and cook for 5 minutes. Drain well.

In a sauté pan, add sweet potato sticks and the candied sauce ingredients and cook on low-medium heat for 20 to 30 minutes until the sticks are tender and the syrup has been reduced to 1/2 cup.

Remove the cooked potato sticks and serve with some syrup on top.