Name: Baked Yams with Ginger-Molasses Butter Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ cup unsalted butter; 3 tbsp golden brown sugar; 1 tbsp light molasses; ½ tsp ground ginger; ¼ tsp ground cinnamon; pinch ground cloves; 3 tbsp crystallized ginger; 6 yams

Baked Yams with Ginger-Molasses Butter Recipe

From the October 2004 issue of Bon Appetit, this is quite the Thanksgiving pleaser!

How To Make Baked Yams with Ginger-Molasses Butter

Red-skinned baked yams flavored with sweet and smokey molasses

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 50 mins

Total: 1 hr 5 mins

Serves:

Ingredients

½ cup unsalted butter, or 1 stick, room temperature
3 tbsp golden brown sugar, packed
1 tbsp light molasses, mild-flavored
½ tsp ground ginger
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
pinch ground cloves
3 tbsp crystallized ginger, minced
6 yams, red-skinned sweet potatoes, 8-oz each, rinsed, patted dry

Instructions

Mix first 6 ingredients in small bowl to blend.
Stir in crystallized ginger.
Season with salt and generous amount of pepper. (Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover; chill. Bring ginger-molasses butter to room temperature before using.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Pierce yams in several places with fork; bake on rimmed baking sheet until tender when pierced with fork, about 50 minutes.
Cut lengthwise slit in each yam and press in ends to open top.
Spoon 2 tbsp. ginger-molasses butter into each yam and serve.