Apple-Yam Casserole

HRinNH

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-07-04 AT 09:12AM (CST)[/font][br][br]This recipe is great for a harvest party or Thanksgiving side dish. If you use tart apples it gives a good contrast to the yams.

Apple-Yam Casserole

1 pound uncooked yams, peeled and sliced into 1/8-inch-thick slices
2 large apples, cored and sliced
2/3 cup Apple Juice
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 tablespoons water
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/3 cup wheat germ

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 2-quart casserole dish. Alternately layer yams and apples in casserole dish; set aside.

In a saucepan, heat apple juice. Mix cornstarch with water in a small bowl or cup. When juice is boiling, stir in cornstarch mixture; cook, stirring, until thickened. Stir in sugar and cinnamon.

Spoon sauce over yam/apple mixture. Sprinkle wheat germ on top. Bake until the apples and yams are tender, 25 to 30 minutes.

Serving Size: 6

ritaanz

This may be a silly question but, are the yams cooked before you put them in the casserole?

HRinNH

Oops, sorry about that. I like the yams to be firm so I don't cook them first. If you want, I suppose you could use the canned ones and I'm not sure but I think they're already peeled.

JudyT929

This sounds really good (minus the 'wheat germ' too healthy for me). Whats the difference between a sweet potato and a yam? and yes they come in cans, until recently I didn't know they came any other way...I'm sticking with the canned ones..let someone else do the work.

HRinNH

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-07-04 AT 10:13AM (CST)[/font][br][br]I personally don't think there's any difference but that's what the recipe originally called them. In New England we call them sweet pahtatahs...ayuh!

mushroomHR

Yams are the darker colored potatoes where sweet potatoes are lighter in color and taste like "sweet" white potatoes. There is a difference in taste and consistency (yams tend to be more stringy whereas sweet potatoes have a consistency like white potatoes) but they're both good. I'd use the yams for this recipe because real sweet potatoes are harder to find.

Don D

I've never seen anything called a 'yam' in a store except canned. Sweet potatoes are hard to find? Where are you shopping? There are billions of them in the stores here and roadside stands along the highways selling sweet taters, honey, jelly and boiled peanuts.

HRinNH

I guess that explains why they are found in cans...
We can find sweet potatoes in practically every grocery store. My husband favores them over white potatoes but sometimes I boil them together for dinner and make a hash the next morning with the leftovers.