Recipe: Candied Sweet Potatoes with Cranberries

Candied Sweet Potatoes with Cranberries
alt.cooking-chat: Chris & Kelly

4 large sweet potatoes
1/4 tsp ground ginger
2 Tbsp. margarine
1 can whole berry cranberry sauce
1/4 cup sugar

Scrub sweet potatoes well. Place 2 cups water in bottom of a large pot. Place the sweet potatoes in a vegetable steamer ands team for 30 minutes or until soft when pricked with a sharp meat fork.

Remove sweet potatoes and allow them to sit and room temperature until cool enough to handle. Remove potato skin. while they are cooling, combine the margarine (or butter), sugar, ginger and cranberry sauce in a saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Simmer 5 minutes.

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Slice sweet potatoes and place in 9x13x2 inch baking pan. Pour glaze over potatoes and bake 20 minutes. Serve hot.

Note: Sweet potatoes can be prepared up to baking 2 days in advance and refrigerated. Add 10 minutes to baking time if they are chilled.