1.Roast or boil your yams/sweet potatoes until soft. If you buy canned, they’ll already be very sweet, so taste before you add anything.
2.Discard the skins, and chop/mash the insides with butter, salt, pepper, brown sugar, cinnamon, and orange juice or milk (not both!) until you like the texture and taste.
3.Spread the mixture in a flattish oven-safe serving dish and arrange marshmallows on top. It can now go into the fridge until the turkey is out of the oven.
4.Before serving, put into a hot oven until they’re hot and the marshmallows are puffed and toasted.
You CAN obviously make them without the marshmallows, but then it’s just a vegetable, not a festive treat of childhood memories.
They go on top of the sweet potatoes/yams.
1.Roast or boil your yams/sweet potatoes until soft. If you buy canned, they’ll already be very sweet, so taste before you add anything.
2.Discard the skins, and chop/mash the insides with butter, salt, pepper, brown sugar, cinnamon, and orange juice or milk (not both!) until you like the texture and taste.
3.Spread the mixture in a flattish oven-safe serving dish and arrange marshmallows on top. It can now go into the fridge until the turkey is out of the oven.
4.Before serving, put into a hot oven until they’re hot and the marshmallows are puffed and toasted.
You CAN obviously make them without the marshmallows, but then it’s just a vegetable, not a festive treat of childhood memories.