Great Side dish for a party, especially if your oven is already going to be busy!
Crock Pot Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows
Author: Lady Sarah
Recipe type: Side Dish
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Serves: 8
This recipe is by my sister Mary. We used pumpkin pie spice instead of nutmeg..as we didn’t have any nutmeg.
Ingredients
- 5 Large Sweet Potatoes (Your store may call them Yams as well)
- 1 Tablespoon Butter, Softened
- ¼th Cup Butter, Melted
- 1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- ½ Teaspoon Salt
- 1 Teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- ¾th Cup Brown Sugar
- ½ Cup of Orange Juice
- 3 Cups of Mini Marshmallows
Instructions
- Scrub and peel the yams.
- Cut into smaller pieces and boil for about 20 minutes if you like your sweet potatoes very mushy.
- If you like them chunky, boil for less time.
- Be sure to add a little bit of salt to the water.
- Mix all ingredients except marshmallows & boiling sweet potatoes.
- After you have boiled them, mash them a bit, adding your ingredients in except marshmallows.
- If you want chunky Sweet Potatoes do not over mix.
- We cooked on low for 3 and a half hours, 20 minutes before put in the marshmallows on top.
- That 3 and a half hours is not a hard set rule, you have already boiled them so within a couple hours they should be good to go.
Notes
There is much confusion between a yam and a sweet potato. Here in the United States, what you find at your grocery store..that is labeled a Yam..is a sweet potato. Technically a Yam, is a white tuber with little taste, that can only be found normally in ethic stores. We may call those big huge tubers at the store a Yam, but they are a sweet potato.
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