honey roasted sweet potatoes recipes
Roasted Sweet Potatoes that come out crispy on the outside and perfectly tender on the inside are a healthy and delicious side dish everyone loves!
Baked sweet potatoes are super easy to make, good for you, and a side dish that pairs with virtually anything you are cooking. Top these Baked Shrimp Scampi , tofu with vegetables , oven baked chicken wings . Plus my family gobbles them up, normally sneaking them off the baking sheet before I even get dinner on the table.
Tips for Making Roasted Sweet Potatoes
If you like to add sweetness to your sweet potatoes, you can use honey, maple syrup, or brown sugar.
If you need to speed up the cooking process, you can chop the sweet potatoes into smaller pieces. The smaller the sweet potatoes, the faster they will cook.
For crispy potatoes, it is super important that the potatoes have space on the baking sheet. Make sure not to overcrowd the pan.
Honey can sometimes burn slightly during baking, for easy cleanup, cover the baking dish with foil before baking.
For super crispy sweet potatoes, preheat the baking sheet as well. Then carefully add the sweet potatoes in a single layer to the hot sheet pan.
This recipe also works great to make sweet potato fries and wedges, just adjust the cooking time as needed.
You can also bake sweet potatoes at 400 degrees and 450 degrees if you are preparing them with other dishes. They will take slightly longer at 400 degrees and cook a little faster at 450. I find they come out the best at 425 with the perfect combo of crispy outside and tender, creamy inside.
Some people prefer adding the honey after the sweet potatoes are fully roasted since honey can burn slightly when cooking and create some smoke.
honey roasted sweet potatoes recipes
Can I eat the sweet potato skins?
Whether to not to peel sweet potatoes when you roast them is completely up to you and your preferences. If you are leaving the skin on, just make sure to thoroughly clean the potatoes so there isn’t any dirt or debris on the skin. However, it is worth mentioning that there are some additional nutrients in the skin. Specifically, the leaving the skin on your sweet potatoes will give you the benefits of added fiber, beta carotene, potassium, iron, folate, and Vitamin C. They are healthy either way, but you can reap some additional benefits by leaving the skin intact.
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honey roasted sweet potatoes
- oven
Equipment
- oven
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato cut half lengthwise
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 TBSP liquid honey
- 1/2 tsp of chili powder
- 1/2 tsp sweet or smoked paprika
- Kosher salt + cracked black pepper
- 1 lime halved
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Brush each sweet potato halve with olive oil, skin included.
- Season the entire sweet potato with kosher salt + cracked black pepper.
- Score the top halves (interior fleswith a knife.
- Season each top halve with chili powder, paprika and harissa or cayenne, if using.
- Bake for 20 mins at 400 degrees F.
- Remove from oven and smear the top halves with honey.
- Return to oven and bake for another 10 minutes.
- Once the sweet potatoes are tender, remove from oven.
- Squeeze fresh lime juice over both halves upon serving, and add parsley.
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