Yam and Cashew Peach Bake Recipe

There are many recipes for yams but this Yam and Cashew Peach Bake is one of my favorites. I love to serve it around Thanksgiving time. It’s also a fabulous party dish for any occasion and will make you a potluck superstar! There’s something about the combination of yams, peaches, and cashews that are “to die for!”

Enjoy this recipe!

Yam and Cashew Peach Bake

Rebecca Forstadt Olkowski

Yummy yummy and good for the tummy food. Great for Thanksgiving or any other occasion.

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Course Holiday

Cuisine American

Servings 6 -8 servings

Ingredients

  

• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup cashews unsalted broken up
• 2 lbs yams 4 or 5 medium-sized
• 6 peach halves from a jar sliced reserve the juice) I found 1/2 peaches in white grape juice
• 3 Tbsps butter
• 1/2 tsp ginger ground

Instructions

 

• Bake the yams with skins on for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Remove while still a little firm in the center. Peel and slice the yams. (I also included a sweet potato or two because, honestly, I couldn’t tell the difference.)
• Mix the brown sugar, cashews, and ginger in a bowl and set aside
• In a 10″ x 6″ x 2″ baking dish, layer half the yams, half the peaches and half the ginger/cashew/sugar mixture. Then repeat using the remainder of each.
• Pour about 1/2 cup of the reserved peach liquid over the yam mixture, dot with butter and season with a little salt and pepper.
• Bake covered for 30 minutes at 350 degrees, then remove the cover and bake for another 30 minutes.

When my kids were attending a coop preschool in Hollywood, during the early ’90s, we were fortunate that many of the parents involved were amazing cooks. One year, we put together a recipe book to sell at our annual fundraiser. A mom named Penny contributed this Thanksgiving yam recipe and everyone loved it.

I haven’t seen Penny since our kids graduated from that school and we moved across town. Thankfully, I saved our little recipe book. Every time I open it, I remember all the fun times we had going on field trips, walking to the Hollywood Bowl, and the El Capitan Theater, creating art, wearing costumes, and making tons of friends.

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