HOW TO BAKE SWEET POTATO

HOW TO BAKE SWEET POTATO

A simple, hands-off method for bake sweet potatoes until they’re ultra soft, naturally sweet, and syrupy. Bake them whole and low and slow keeps the flesh moist and creamy, making them easy to use in both sweet and savory recipes.

5 min prep 90 min cook 155 min total 1 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 Sweet Potato

Instructions

  1. 1

    DO NOT PEEL.

  2. 2

    Wrap the whole sweet potato in foil. This is important. Wrapping the sweet potato saves all the sweetness that we need.

  3. 3

    Bake in preheated oven at 160c (350f) for 90 minutes.

  4. 4

    Turn off oven and keep it in there, warm, for a further 60 minutes. Remove the foil and check the texture, most be moist and soft.

  5. 5

    When you cut it open, you should see natural syrup and a creamy texture. The skin mus be easy to remove,.

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