Baked Sweet Potatoes Recipe (2024)

Sweet potatoes are even sweeter if you bake them at 350F degrees or lower. It takes longer to cook, but will be well worth the wait!

Doesn't get more foolproof than this. Among my favorite additions to warm sweet potatoes: vanilla yogurt and ground cinnamon. Works equally well as dessert or breakfast.

A baked sweet potato is a delight with (drumroll)...brown sugar, butter, and a good chipotle BBQ sauce. (I'd give the name of my favorite, but I'm not sure that would be permitted.) All are optional, of course, and some BBQ sauces are sweet enough on their own, if not some sweet potatoes. But right out of the oven, slicing the skin from end to end then scooping/scraping the potato out, I slather it with the aforesaid. Who needs anything else?

In Korea we often eat roasted sweet potatoes with kimchi. Use purple Japanese sweet potatoes (they are whiter inside) to try this!

This was such an easy dish to prepare ahead of time. I baked the potatoes on one day, let them set with skin still on in the refrigerator overnight. A few hours before serving, I removed the skin, sliced thick and plated on an oven recommended serving platter. Just before serving I put them into the oven for 20 minutes and squeezed lime juice over the slices before serving. Easy and delicious.

Instead of a knife to pierce sweet potato use a fork pierce 2 times on each side.

And no need to remove the skin! It's tasty as well as nutritious!

My favorite. I like to eat after baking with cottage cheese. Yummy

Cooked my potatoes at 350F until easily pierced with a fork or butter knife. Did not bother piercing prior to baking. They usually seem to be done when I can see them oozing juices, which may begin crusting on the pan around them. Very tasty eaten plain right out of the skin or turned into a puree for pie or cheesecake recipes.

Trader Joe's (at least the one near me) sells bags of sweet potatoes. They tend to be smaller than the ones you can buy individually and you get roughly 8 per bag. I bake all of them at once and store in the fridge. I am on WW purple program and sweet potatoes are considered a zero point food. Having them on hand makes for quick and low point friendly meals and snacks. And I agree with other commenters, keep the skin on. It's delicious.

A warm sweet potato is so good with melted blue cheese on it , can’t get enough lol. Give it a try, you may need to like blue cheese though.

This is such a simple, healthy, and satisfying lunch and dinner--came home and popped two sweet potatoes in the oven, one for dinner tonight with cottage cheese and one for lunch tomorrow with cottage cheese. Smelled wonderful while it was roasting. Look forward to trying this with goat cheese and feta cheese.

Ever since I discovered this recipe, this is the only way I make sweet potatoes. I made them again last night and while they cooled, snuggled together in their baking dish, I roasted a couple of pieces of halibut. Delicious, easy, healthy.

Melt goat cheese over the potato just before eating. Delicious.

Use sauce from sweet potato fries

This is a wonderful recipe. It is the only way I make my sweet potatoes. Have made various sizes potatoes and adjust the time and temperature accordingly with convection bake. Really appreciate that no oil/fat is used. Wrapping in the plastic wrap once cooled is key. Have 3-4 oz in the morning with eggs as a great starter of the day.

You can also freeze them after baking, and have a different texture sensation

I split mine and sprinkle with rice vinegar, salt and pepper and eat while hot. Yum. Also good: split sweet potatoes topped with hummus and crisp roasted kale.

Trader Joe's (at least the one near me) sells bags of sweet potatoes. They tend to be smaller than the ones you can buy individually and you get roughly 8 per bag. I bake all of them at once and store in the fridge. I am on WW purple program and sweet potatoes are considered a zero point food. Having them on hand makes for quick and low point friendly meals and snacks. And I agree with other commenters, keep the skin on. It's delicious.

To those who eat this with cottage cheese – do you bake it with the cottage cheese? Or do you add the cottage cheese after it’s baked?

Cooked my potatoes at 350F until easily pierced with a fork or butter knife. Did not bother piercing prior to baking. They usually seem to be done when I can see them oozing juices, which may begin crusting on the pan around them. Very tasty eaten plain right out of the skin or turned into a puree for pie or cheesecake recipes.

Definitely agree that the skin is fabulous - especially if you’re eating them hot. The skin and the flesh that clings to it are also denser in nutrients than the flesh alone.

We tried this recipe just this morning. It worked really well. Thank you!

A warm sweet potato is so good with melted blue cheese on it , can’t get enough lol. Give it a try, you may need to like blue cheese though.

And no need to remove the skin! It's tasty as well as nutritious!

This is such a simple, healthy, and satisfying lunch and dinner--came home and popped two sweet potatoes in the oven, one for dinner tonight with cottage cheese and one for lunch tomorrow with cottage cheese. Smelled wonderful while it was roasting. Look forward to trying this with goat cheese and feta cheese.

I make these all the time and have become a sweet potato addict! Whole Foods has a gorgeous display of several varieties, and I keep replenishing my stock. Sweet potatoes are interchangeable with winter squash, and I use sweet potato puree in a number of dishes. This is really too easy to make--all you do is stick it in the oven for an hour, and you can roast them ahead of time. Highly recommended--sweet potatoes have so many varied uses and tasty combinations.