Roasted Sweet Potatoes Recipe

This basic recipe will show you how to get perfectly 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.

I once had a roommate who would bake sweet potatoes and load them with butter and brown sugar. OMG, yes please. But once I started making a quinoa bowl recipe, I found a new love for roasted sweet potatoes.

Ok, if I’m going to be real, my love stems from sweet potato fries dipped in ketchup. But, health and stuff.

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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Peeling the skin off the sweet potato reveals a beautiful orange color. This is one reason why I love adding it to dishes.

The sweet potato has the texture of a carrot, so use a sharp knife to get the perfect dice or the potato will just break off in chunks or flake. Like this:

I guess it’s time to upgrade my knife. Personally, I’m looking at this knife set.

Sweet Potato Recipe Ingredients

1 large sweet potato
2 T olive oil
Salt & Pepper

How to Make 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, but you can. ]

Bake in oven for 20 minutes.

Voila. That’s it! I hope you enjoyed this super easy roasted sweet potato recipe. If you love roasted veggies, try this Honey Glazed Carrots recipe.