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Mom loves sweet potatoes and fixed them often in this creamy, comforting baked sweet potato casserole. With its nutty topping, this side dish could almost serve as a dessert. It's a yummy treat! —Sandi Pichon, Memphis, Tennessee How to make Mom's Sweet Potatoes.

Mom's Sweet Potatoes is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Mom's Sweet Potatoes is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mom's sweet potatoes using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mom's Sweet Potatoes:

1. Take 4 medium red yams, peeled
2. Make ready 1 small can crushed pineapple
3. Take 4 tbsp butter, cut into chunks
4. Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
5. Take 1/4 tsp ground cloves
6. Get 1/4 tsp ground ginger
7. Take 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
8. Take 1/4 cup maple syrup
9. Get 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
10. Take 1 small bag of mini marshmallows
11. Make ready 1 Pam cooking spray
12. Take 1 oven safe baking pan

How to make Mom's sweet potato casserole. Place them in the water once it comes to a boil. Let your sweet potatoes cool a bit, then peel and cut into quarters. Melt the butter in a skillet (I find a well-seasoned cast iron skillet works very well for this if you have it), add brown sugar and salt and cook.

Steps to make Mom's Sweet Potatoes:

1. Take a large pot of water on the stove at high heat. Meanwhile, wash and peel sweet potatoes.
2. Then cut potatoes into quarters and place potatoes in the pot once the water is boiling.
3. Reduce stove temperature to medium high. Boil about 20 minutes or until potatoes are done.
4. Cut butter in chucks and place back into the refrigerator.
5. Spray a oven safe pan with Pam and set aside.
6. Once potatoes are done, strain and let cool until easy to handle. Then cut yams into medium-sized checks.
7. Preheat oven to 350.
8. Place chunks into pan. Add in seasonings, crushed pineapple with juice, chopped walnuts, and maple syrup. Coat well.
9. Scatter top with butter chunks and bake at 350 for 25 min.
10. After 25 minutes, take out of oven and top with marshmallows. I use the whole bag but you can use less. Place back into the oven for additional 5 minutes or until marshmallows are golden brown.
11. Enjoy!

Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. If there ever was a perfect side dish to any and every meal, the baked sweet potato would have to be it. Unlike a traditional baked potato, the sweet potato has the option of going sweet or savory (more on that below), packs a ton of vitamins and nutrition, and is arguably the most kid-friendly vegetable on the planet. Most people pass up the sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving or Christmas. They're usually loaded down with tons of sugar and marshmallows, resulting in a seriously over the top side dish.

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