Recipes
Sweet Potato Confection (Homemade Marron Glacé)
This Sweet Potato Confection (Homemade Marron Glacé) is delicious! It brings back childhood memories… Here's how to make it:
Ingredients
- •1 kg sweet potatoes
- •400 grams sugar
- •2 packets unflavored gelatin
- •1/2 cup water
- •1 tablespoon vanilla essence (optional)
- •1 cup sugar (180 grams)
Instructions
- 1
Chop the peeled sweet potatoes, place them in a saucepan, cover with water and cook until tender.
- 2
Blend the cooled, cooked sweet potatoes with the sugar in a blender or food processor, then transfer to a bowl.
- 3
Mix the gelatin with 1/2 cup water and set aside to bloom.
- 4
Place the sugar in a saucepan over the heat and let it melt into a caramel syrup.
- 5
Add the sweet potato purée to the saucepan with the caramel syrup and stir over low heat until smooth.
- 6
Add the bloomed gelatin and vanilla essence, then stir constantly over low heat until the mixture pulls away from the bottom of the pan.
- 7
Pour the mixture into a mold with its bottom and sides greased with oil, then cover with plastic wrap pressed directly onto the surface.
- 8
Let cool completely at room temperature, remove the plastic wrap and unmold. It is now ready to serve.