Baked Sweet Potatoes ♥

Just rub whole sweet potatoes with a little oil and bake

Back to Basics: How to roast or bake whole sweet potatoes. It's as easy as easy can be.

The other day, I needed to cook a pile of sweet potatoes for a recipe calling for cooked sweet potatoes. (The recipe's not ready for posting but shows much promise!) My choices were:

Steaming or boiling -- but I thought the sweet potatoes would be too wet.
Cooking the sweet potatoes in the microwave -- it's a good technique for one or two sweet potatoes, not so much for a bunch.
Roasting chopped sweet potatoes wouldn't work either, I didn't want the crispy caramelized edges that develop.

So instead, I baked a trayful of whole sweet potatoes, then stripped off the skins to yield beautiful cooked sweet potatoes. Perfect!

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