candied
- adjective
- /ˈkændid/
- For the holiday feast, my grandmother made candied pecans that everyone loved.
- candied yams
- candied ginger
- candied oranges
Plus all the raw, organic, roasted, salted and candied nuts you can imagine.
- Plus all the raw, organic, roasted, salted and candied nuts you can imagine.
- It's yams, candied yams and sweet potatoes.
Examples
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She brought stuffed chicken breasts and candied yams, and I took care of the rest.
Blog text (8) -
Rosebaby Blossom, these are the most delicious candied yams I have ever eaten!
Fiction book (1991) -
Too many of those candied doughnuts.
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A woman customer asks for some of the honey bread, which has sweet candied oranges buried in it.
Fiction book (2001) -
Molly Possum gave them candied apples.
Fiction book (1993) -
Now you've got to be in the market for more of these candied yams.
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I use real sweet potatoes instead of the candied ones in the can, bake, peel, and mash them.
Blog text (24) -
It's yams, candied yams and sweet potatoes.
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Wish I had candied pecans for topping, but I'm sure it will be awesome as is.
Blog text (14) -
Collard greens and corn bread, some candied yams, a little potato salad, fried chicken, peach cobbler, few slices of ham.
Synonyms
Has sugar on the outside to make it sweet and not sticky
With sugar added to make it sweet
Fruit or other food preserved by covering it with sugar
Fruits kept in sugar with a hard shiny coating
Compounds
How Sugary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Candied comes from candy, which comes from an old Persian word qand meaning 'sugar'. So, candied describes fruit or nuts that are coated or preserved with sugar.