These gluten-free glazed sweet potatoes make an appearance on our table at every holiday meal. Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, you’ll find me in the kitchen making these!
Sweet potatoes are a great source of vitamins and make a filling side dish. Getting your kids to eat them isn’t hard if you serve them with this sweet glaze. The brown sugar and cinnamon glaze on these sweet potatoes makes this a great side dish for your gluten-free meal. I know I’ve found a great recipe for sweet potatoes when my husband will even eat them!
Here in the United States, the words sweet potatoes and yams are used pretty interchangeably. You can read about the actual differences between sweet potatoes and yams here. You want to buy the varieties with a copper colored skin and orange flesh. One of the stores I shop at calls them yams and has a dark variety and am even darker variety. I like to buy a mix of both which results in a little color variation in the finished dish. I really haven’t noticed a difference in the taste from the two different varieties I buy, so it is just for aesthetics.
How to make glazed sweet potatoes:
First just peel the sweet potatoes/yams, then cube them up. The smaller you cut the cubes, the faster this dish will cook, so keep that in mind if you are pressed for time. However, if you cut them too small, they’ll also overcook and get mushy easily, so make sure you keep an eye on them.
After cubing, you’ll toss them in a 9×13 pan before coating them with the buttery brown sugar sauce that you make on the stove.
You can just use a 9×13 glass Pyrex pan, but this time I used the HIC Porcelain Lasagna Pan
that I bought last year. I love how the bright white pan really makes the color of these sweet potatoes pop and makes this a pretty side dish. I found a less expensive version without handles here.
Tip: after you get these in the oven, you can whip up my gluten-free cornbread. It bakes at the same temperature for only about 35-40 minutes, so it can bake alongside these sweet potatoes!
If your family loves sweet potatoes and you’d like to try a savory side dish as well, check out these salt and vinegar smashed sweet potatoes. I’ve also got a savory recipe for Potato Wedges. They are a family favorite as well! If you’d like to make a sweet potato casserole, try this paleo sweet potato casserole.
What’s your favorite thing to make with sweet potatoes? I’d love to hear!
Gluten-free Glazed Sweet Potatoes Recipe:
These glazed sweet potatoes are a simple side dish that is high in vitamins, with a sweet flavor your family will love! Tip: after you get these in the oven, you can whip up my gluten-free cornbread. It bakes at the same temperature for only about 35-40 minutes, so it can bake alongside these sweet potatoes! As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.Glazed Sweet Potatoes {Naturally Gluten-free}
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Leanne
Friday 28th of February 2014
I found this recipe under "dairy-free" but the 2nd ingredient is butter. I'm confused.
Molly
Thursday 20th of February 2014
I always just call them all sweet potatoes. In California they're now trying to say they have their own variety, a white-skinned "sweetpotato" with no space, which is grown in sand and hand-sorted and therefore higher quality than any other sweet potatoes or yams. It's all a little absurd...and vaguely xenophobic, if that's not going too far, how people will insist that yams are from outside of the US and sweet potatoes are from the US.
ANYWAY. Yams, sweet potatoes, sweetpotatoes, they're all delicious, glazed or not! Nice photo.