Boild yam is bring cooked that way with we Jamaicans 🇯🇲 and Africans for many generation long before the western world ever knew about yam was!! It’s some family’s Boild and mash it into a past make a small round flat doe and frie it with other ingredients. For generations we have been cooking yam this way.
Your way is much healthier. I might like it fried.
We bake ours with brown sugar, butter and marshmallows on top. I guess it’s really called candied yams.