Gingered Sweet Potatoes with Orange Juice

Use your microwave oven to cook sweet potatoes to then be baked in a thick and buttery orange juice-based sauce with ginger.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 30 mins
• Total Time: 40 mins
• Calories: 183 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 3 tablespoons butter
• ½ cup orange juice
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• 2 ½ pounds sweet potatoes
• cooking spray

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Pierce skin of sweet potatoes in several spots with a fork.

Step 2

Cook sweet potatoes in microwave oven until just tender, 12 to 15 minutes. Refrigerate sweet potatoes until cooled completely, at least 20 minutes.

Step 3

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Prepare a shallow 1 1/2-quart baking dish with cooking spray.

Step 4

Peel sweet potatoes and cut into cubes; spread into prepared baking dish.

Step 5

Mix sugar, cornstarch, salt, and ginger together in a glass measuring cup; pour orange juice into the cup while stirring with a whisk.

Step 6

Heat orange juice mixture in microwave oven for 1 minute, stir, and continue to heat until thickened and smooth, 30 to 60 seconds more; add butter and stir until melted. Pour the liquid over the sweet potatoes.

Step 7

Bake in preheated oven until sweet potatoes are heated through, 15 to 20 minutes.