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Side Dish
American
6 servings
30 minutes
2 hours
A comfort dish of apples and sweet potatoes meant for any time of the year. This recipe is special, topped with toasted macadamia nuts. This can be made ahead and reheated.
3 sweet potatoes or yams
2 large Granny Smith baking apples, cored, cut into 1/4 inch rings (or Green Dragon Apples)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons butter
3/4 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/2 tablespoon whole nutmeg, ground
1/2 cup macadamia nuts, chopped and toasted
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Scrub Yams well, pat dry, then carefully pierce all over as you would to bake a potato.
Place sweet potatoes or yams on a cookie sheet and bake in oven until tender, about 35-45 minutes. Cool sweet potatoes or yams, to touch, and remove skins.
Slice and layer sweet potatoes/yams and peeled apple rings in buttered casserole dish.
Boil together: sugar, water, butter, cornstarch and salt, until it begins to thicken.
Pour over yams and apples, sprinkle with cinnamon, nutmeg and nuts, bake covered at 350ºF for 1 hour.
This recipe can be prepared one day ahead of time, covered and refrigerated. Remove from refrigeration about 30 minutes prior to baking. Thoroughly heated, this casserole should have an internal temperature of 145ºF.
