Oven Baked Sweet Potato
The best way to bake a sweet potato to get soft and sweet insides and a skin that's easy to remove.
Servings: 1 -5 potatoes
Ingredients
- 1 to 5 sweet potatoes large or medium
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Wash and scrub your potatoes clean.
- Cut the pointy end off of each potato with a sharp knife, removing about 1/2 inch on each end.
- Place potatoes directly on a baking rack set inside a baking sheet, and place it in the oven.
- Bake until the center of the potato reaches between 205 and 212 degrees F. This will be roughly 45 to 55 minutes, depending on the size of the potatoes.
- Remove from the oven, and let the potatoes cool a few minutes so that you can handle them.
- Cut a slit along the top, and serve with your favorite toppings. Or remove the skin from the sweet potatoes (they will slide off very easily), and mash the potatoes before serving.
Notes
- To tell if the sweet potatoes are done, it should be easy to pierce them with a fork.
- Even though sweet potatoes and yams aren’t the same, you can use the instructions here to bake yams in the oven.
- If you need cooked sweet potatoes for another recipe, this is the easiest way to make them because they require very little hands-on time.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 sweet potato | Calories: 194kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.04g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.03g | Sodium: 124mg | Potassium: 762mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 32063IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 68mg | Iron: 1mg
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