How to Make Easy Roasted Sweet Potatoes in 20 Minutes

Name: Easy Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1 large sweet potato; 2 Tablespoons olive oil; Salt & Pepper

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This basic recipe will show you how to get perfectly Easy Roasted Sweet Potatoes. All you need is sweet potatoes, olive oil, salt and pepper. This delicious recipe is so simple and takes little time to make.

Peeling the skin off the sweet potato reveals a beautiful orange color. This is one reason why I love adding it to dishes. Sweet potatoes taste pretty great on their own, so I started roasting them with just a little olive oil and salt and pepper.

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1 Roasted Sweet Potato Recipe Ingredients

2 How to Roast Sweet Potatoes

3 Recipe Tips

4 FAQs

5 More Amazing Sweet Potato Side Dishes

6 Easy Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Roasted Sweet Potato Recipe Ingredients

You only need a few ingredients for this recipe:

Sweet potato
Olive oil
Salt & Pepper

How to Roast Sweet Potatoes

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Peel sweet potato and dice into bite size pieces.
Mix sweet potato in mixing bowl with 2 T olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
Spread evenly on a baking sheet. [I don’t line the baking sheet with foil or parchment paper, but you can. It makes for easy cleanup.]
Bake in oven for 20 to 30 minutes.

Recipe Tips

The sweet potato has the texture of a carrot and they are very thick, so use a sharp knife to get the perfect dice of the potato.

FAQs

Are Sweet Potatoes and Yams the Same Thing?

Nope! This is a common mistake. There are white and purple sweet potatoes, as well as the deep orange sweet potatoes that are most commonly used in the kitchen.

More Amazing Sweet Potato Side Dishes

Easy Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Author: Emily Pecoraro

Sweet potatoes taste pretty tasty, so I started roasting them with just a little olive oil and salt and pepper.

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

Total Time 25

Course Side Dishes

Cuisine American

Servings

Calories 270 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

▢ 1 large sweet potato
▢ 2 Tablespoons olive oil
▢ Salt & Pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Peel sweet potato and dice into bite size pieces.
Mix sweet potato in mixing bowl with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
Spread evenly on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake in oven for 20 minutes.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Calories: 270kcalCarbohydrates: 34gProtein: 3gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 10gSodium: 94mgPotassium: 573mgFiber: 5gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 24118IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 51mgIron: 1mg

The nutrition information is calculated using online nutrition calculators and may not be accurate. It is provided as a general guide only.

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