Recipe Sweet Potato Loaf w/ Maple Glaze

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A delightful baked treat that showcases the rich and earthy flavors of sweet potatoes

Ingredients​

  • 1 large garnet yam peeled and large diced
  • ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons Hot Honey (honey chilli sauce)
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/2 cups salted butter
  • 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 2 eggs

Instructions​

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. On a lined sheet tray mix together yam, 2 tablespoons hot honey and olive oil. Bake for 30 minutes or until they are fully cooked.
  3. Once fully cooked, blend with remaining hot honey.
  4. In a large bowl melt butter, add in sweet potato, sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract. Mix until everything is incorporated.
  5. In a separate bowl mix together, flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and add dry ingredients to the wet.
  6. Grease or parchment line a loaf pan. Add batter and bake for 40-50 minutes, check with toothpick it should come out clean.
  7. While the loaf cooks in a small bowl, mix together the remaining ingredients.
  8. Once the loaf is fully cooked remove from the loaf pan onto a wire rack and allow it to cool.
  9. Once the loaf is fully cooled pour glaze all over the top and allow it to drip over the sides. If you want a little extra heat, also drizzle with a little hot honey chilli sauce.
 
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I rea d this as sweet potato leaf :)
And it got me curious as we do eat sweet potato leaves, and also pumpkin leaves.
They are very tasty, just a pain to clean
 
Looks good!
Just a question. What's a garnet yam? A red/orange sweet potato, or a version of yam?
Over here, a yam and a sweet potato are different, but I wonder whether it's just the way it's described there.
 
Looks good!
Just a question. What's a garnet yam? A red/orange sweet potato, or a version of yam?
Over here, a yam and a sweet potato are different, but I wonder whether it's just the way it's described there.
In the USA, the term is apparently (so I'm told by a search engine) used interchangeably, despite a yam not being in the same family as a sweet potato botanically.
 
Looks good!
Just a question. What's a garnet yam? A red/orange sweet potato, or a version of yam?
Over here, a yam and a sweet potato are different, but I wonder whether it's just the way it's described there.
In the USA, the term is apparently (so I'm told by a search engine) used interchangeably, despite a yam not being in the same family as a sweet potato botanically.
Yes, we use the terms interchangeably - I think I even posted a pic on here a long time ago of canned ones, and the label said both “yams” and “sweet potatoes” on the label.

A garnet yam is just one that has a darker skin and a bit darker flesh. They’re also called red sweet potatoes here.
 
Yam and sweet potato are definitely not the same here!
Here’s the canned version I was talking about:

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The Rest of the World: “Are they yams or sweet potatoes?”
The US: “Yes!”


And here’s what Google AI has to say about that:

Americans often call yams and sweet potatoes the same thing because of a marketing campaign in the 1930s where Louisiana sweet potato growers started calling their new, soft, orange-fleshed variety of sweet potatoes "yams" to differentiate them from other sweet potato varieties, and the term stuck in popular usage despite the two being botanically different; essentially, the "yam" in American grocery stores is almost always a sweet potato.
 
I can't believe they are canned...
And in syrup :scratchhead:
Sit down and pour yourself a comforting drink, because this is traditionally how they’re eaten here at Thanksgiving:

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Super-sweet, and marshmallows on top, and (anticipating another question) it’s a side dish eaten with the meal, not a dessert!
 
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