Baked Sweet Potato
Sweet potatoes baked in the oven — Caramelized Baked Sweet Potatoes, Twice-Baked with Marshmallows, Baked Sweet Potato + Goat Cheese — for easy weeknights.
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breakfastOven Baked Sweet Potato
I make these sweet potatoes as a meat alternative, usually for tacos. So good for breakfast or a side too!
Becca CohenIngredients
- 1 Large sweet potato
- 2 tbsp Melted Coconut Oil
- 2 tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 tbsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Pepper
Instructions
- 1Preheat oven to 400F, cut sweet potato into small cubes
- 2In medium sized bowl, combine sweet potato and melted coconut oil and stir
- 3Add 2 heaping tbsp of brown sugar, salt, and pepper over sweet potatoes, stir to combine
- 4Once seasonings ar evenly coated, spread over a baking sheet and bake in oven for 20-25 minutes
- 5Once potatoes are starting to crisp, remove from oven and let cool. Use as side dish, meat alternative, snack! Good hot or cold
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A sweet potato asks almost nothing of you. You scrub it, poke it, slide it in the oven, and by the time the rest of dinner is ready it's soft all the way through and sweet at the edges where the sugars ran out.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on nights when the oven is already on for something else, or when supper needs one more thing on the plate and there's no time to stand at the stove.
Every recipe here starts with a whole potato and goes its own way — Oven Baked Sweet Potato with coconut oil and brown sugar, Caramelized Baked Sweet Potatoes with maple syrup, Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows for the holiday table, and Make Ahead Baked Sweet Potatoes for the week.
Quick Tips
- 1
Pierce before baking
Poke each potato 6 to 8 times with a fork so steam escapes and the skin doesn't split open in the oven.
- 2
Line the pan
Sugars leak out and burn on, so set the potatoes on a foil-lined sheet at 400°F and save yourself the scrubbing.
- 3
Pick even sizes
Choose potatoes close to the same weight, around 12 ounces each, so they all finish in the same 45 to 60 minutes.
- 4
Test with a knife
Slide a paring knife into the thickest part; if it goes in with no resistance, they're done, and 10 more minutes only makes them sweeter.
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