My mother is a big fan of sweet potatoes or kamote. Thus, I grew up eating kamote on three forms:- cooked on top of rice inside a rice cooker
- simply boiled in salted water (then slathered with margarine)
- cut into wedges, fried, then dipped in brown sugar... mmm...
During my mother's visit, I came across my friend Ayeen's recipe of Baked Sweet Potatoes. I decided to surprise my mom with this "discovery" of mine. I have actually seen this made on the FoodNetwork for Thanksgiving several times before but, I never thought of actually doing it until now. I sent my sister a text message; I asked her to buy a bag of marshmallows.
When I got home that day, I took out my Pyrex pie plate, and placed big chunks of unpeeled sweet potatoes in it in one layer. I microwaved some butter then dissolved half a cup of brown sugar in it. I poured the melted butter mixture into the pie plate then made another layer of marshmallows on top of my layer of sweet potatoes. I covered the pie plate with aluminum foil and baked it for 40 minutes at 400F.
I thought that I would need an extra step of broiling after removing the aluminum foil but, my... the marshmallows have caramelized so much already! You can see in the picture that it almost burned!
I gave my mother a bowl of this and I added some more marshmallows. Oh my! I hear her slurp the caramelized butter and marshmallows! She asked for more.
