Yams and candy potatoes have constantly been a Thanksgiving preferred for maximum families-mainly in the South! But I’m from Southern California and we do things with the “typical” elements and give them a piece of a twist! This dish befell while my sister became a Weight Watcher. She continually hosts our Thanksgiving potlucks and I am usually in charge of the “TUBER BRIGADE” of recipes for our crowd. Not wanting to spoil her Thanksgiving, I got here up with this very tasty yet low-fats casserole that has end up as essential to our holiday birthday celebration as my potato and cauliflower mashers.
The element quantities are adjustable to suit your crowd, I constantly discern approximately four-6 oz of candy potatoes or yams in line with character. Because of all the end result, you discover yourself ingesting less of the dish. It’s not best complete of diet A and potassium, however plenty of fiber as well!
Pre-warmness your oven to 400. Spray a 2-1/2 quart casserole with butter-flavored Pam and set apart.
For kilos of potatoes have equipped:
1 massive can sliced peaches in syrup
1 C each prunes and dried apricots, plumped up for half-hour in warm orange or pineapple juice (sincerely placed fruit in a saucepan and cowl with the juice, convey as much as a simmer after which shut off the heat)
1 C fresh cranberries, frozen or clean (defrost if the use of frozen)
1 to one-half of tsp cinnamon
1 tsp floor ginger
kosher salt and pepper
2 tbsps lite margarine
1/2 C toasted and chopped pecans
Some alternatives which are always exceptional are to additionally plump up dried pears, dried apples and even for a distinct texture of the identical fruit-dried peaches. Just do not forget to also propolis plump them with the prunes and apricots as well.
Scrub and dry potatoes. Bake on a cookie sheet approximately forty minutes or about 3/four’s of the manner roasted. Cool for approximately 10 mins. Peel and reduce into chucks now not an excessive amount of thicker than the peach slices and prunes.
Combine the potatoes with the peaches, syrup from the peaches, prunes with the juice, cranberries, cinnamon, ginger, salt and pepper to flavor. Combine well.