There are many ways of cooking a particular dish cuisine. Sweet potatoes are a popular cuisine, especially top-tier baked sweet potatoes. It is very easy to cook and requires simple recipe notes.

Back in the day, every culture used to have its own ideas and set of favorite recipes, but now we can try cuisines from other cultures and explore them. 

This article shares the cooking of sweet potatoes in the oven that you must try!

About Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are a popular root vegetable. That is packed with a lot of benefits and is popular all over the globe.  Sweet potatoes contain starch, vitamins, protein, minerals, and other health benefits, including essential fibre and antioxidants. Sweet potatoes also have significantly higher amounts of vitamins A, C, and manganese.

Unlike certain vegetables, sweet potato is very versatile. We intend to say here that you can cook multiple things from sweet potatoes, bake sweet potatoes, fry them, make desserts with them and even prepare main courses and starters.

In every culture, the most popular way of consuming sweet potatoes is baked sweet potatoes. With time, many people have developed many new sweet potato recipes. Here, we have enlisted a few of our favourite recipes.

Baked sweet potato

As we have already said earlier, baked sweet potatoes are everyone’s favourite worldwide, so if we skip this, this will be a sin for us. Here in this part, we will share three recipes for cooking sweet potatoes in the oven; stay tuned to the end to know everything.

1. Whole-baked sweet potatoes

Ingredients

• Whole sweet potatoes
• Butter
• black pepper
• toppings of your choice

Preparation

Step 1– Wash the whole sweet potatoes thoroughly until no dirt or gunk residue is left. You can use a veggie wash, too, if you want. Otherwise, washing vegetables under running tap water is fine; if there is no dirt left on the sweet potatoes, it is ready for the following procedure.

Step 2– After washing the sweet potatoes thoroughly, poke holes through a knife or fork simply through the sweet potatoes. You may have also tried or eaten this recipe with simple regular potatoes.

Also, do poke holes more frequently on the thickest part of the sweet potatoes so it takes less cooking time and cooks evenly. Now all you can do is take an aluminium foil and lightly spray any oil of your choice you can use avocado oil or olive oil as well, and wrap tightly around the sweet potatoes, making sure you have covered it very nicely so that no skin is peeping out of the foil.

Step 3– Now preheat the oven; once pre-heating is done, take a sheet pan and lay your nicely wrapped sweet potatoes. Once the baking sheet is loaded with the sweet potatoes, turn on the oven for around 20 minutes at 425 degrees F.

After it is done, remove the baking sheet pan and unwrap the sweet potatoes in foil; here you have your baked sweet potatoes.

Now, you can turn your basic sweet potatoes into a sweet dish or a tasty appetizer; the choice is yours. Here, we are writing both recipes.

You can make baked sweet potato in the appetizer way. Cut open the sweet potato’s skin and ensure the orange flesh is fork-tender. Now, slowly mash the orange flesh within the sweet potato peel, and add your favourite condiments like butter and siracha. You also consider adding green onions, corn, capsicum, Italian herbs, or any topping like pizza, and your baked sweet potato recipe is ready to eat and enjoy.

Add a little cinnamon, brown sugar, or maple syrup after tearing it open and mashing the orange flesh or fork tender; enjoy it after a light meal.

2. Roasted sweet potatoes

This baked sweet potato recipe is not only tasty but also versatile. It can be eaten with rice, Tortilla wraps, and snacks. You can add it to dinner, breakfast, and many more.

If you love sweet potatoes, you should follow these meal prep steps for the next perfect baked sweet potatoes.

Step 1- To start with this baked sweet potato recipe, first choose some of the best sweet potatoes, wash off the whole sweet potato and peel the skin if you do not like it; otherwise, if you love the crunchy peel, you can leave it on.

Step 2- Now, chop the sweet potato into chunky square pieces; once cut nicely, we strongly give you the instructions to preheat the oven. Take out your rimmed baking sheet and lay a piece of parchment paper on the prepared baking sheet. Add olive oil, garlic powder, chilli powder, salt and pepper and mix it well with your hands.

Step 3– Once everything is nicely coated, use your preheat oven for 20 minutes at 425 degrees f and let it cook,

Once the cooking time is over, let the baking sheet out; if you have roasted sweet potatoes with their peel, make sure it has crispy skin. If the skin is not crispy yet, you make the crispy skin oven-baked sweet potatoes by just giving it a few more minutes in the oven as cooking time. Once it has the perfect crispy skin, your oven-baked sweet potatoes are ready to serve.

Serve this dish with sour cream and green onion. This is gonna blow your mind. You can enjoy this dish for breakfast, lunch, snack, or lunch. Also, this dish tastes good if you consume it the next day.

To preserve the leftover baked sweet potatoes, use an airtight container; you can also use aluminum foil to wrap it tightly, even before storing it in an airtight container.

3. Sweet Potatoes Bake Pancakes

Bake sweet potatoes in the oven rack; put them out, make them skin-free, and mash them well until no lumps are left.

Then, mix olive oil, brown sugar, and almond milk. It will need less brown sugar as sweet potatoes have their natural sweetness. Mix it in a thick- runny consistency.

You can spread the mixture on parchment paper on a baking sheet or use a normal pan over the gas stove, whichever is easier for you. Spread, cook, and enjoy it with a drizzle of maple syrup.

Now there you go, some easy but delicious sweet potato recipes cooked in the oven.