The most delicious way to eat sweet potatoes. Learn how to bake different shapes and sizes of sweet potatoes to get them perfectly tender every time!
Course Side Dish
Cuisine International
Keyword baked sweet potatoes, how to bake sweet potatoes
Prep Time 1 minuteminute
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Servings 1
Calories 194kcal
Ingredients
1sweet potato
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 400F.
If you want to bake your sweet potatoes as a whole, wash them well, then poke them with a fork all over and place them on a baking sheet. Measure their circumference and then bake for:9" circumference = 45 min10" circumference = 60 min11" circumference = 75 min
If you want to bake them cut up, wash them and then either peel or not and cut them into whatever shape you like (rounds, wedges, cubes) and make sure they are no thicker than 1" so they bake quickly.Preheat your baking sheet to make it non-stick and lightly oil your cut-up sweet potato in a bowl. Then place the cut-up sweet potato on the hot baking sheet leaving space between each piece. If you crowd your baking sheet steam builds and the sweet potato doesn't roast properly.Bake 15-20 minutes on one side, then flip and bake another 15-20 minutes on the other depending on how firm or soft you want your sweet potato to be.
Put under the broiler for 2-5 minutes if you like your sweet potato a bit burnt.