Roast Sweet Potatoes
Roast sweet potatoes are a delicious and simple swap for white potatoes. And best of all they're super easy to make!
Our oven roasted sweet potatoes are really easy to make. And they taste delicious in place of regular white potatoes or as a portion of veggies alongside your favourite dinner.
Unlike when roasting white potatoes, there's no need to par-boil sweet potatoes, so they're easier to prep and less effort to cook.
These yummy roast sweet potatoes go great with a roast dinner, or with a nice bowl of chilli con carne or as a side dish to a salad.
Sweet potatoes always make us feel autumnal and this delicious vegetable is a key ingredient in lots of our favourite autumn dinner recipes...
Equipment Needed To Make Roast Sweet Potatoes
- Chopping board
- Vegetable knife
- Mixing bowl
- Tablespoon
- Non Stick Baking Tray
Roast Sweet Potatoes Ingredients
You'll just need two main ingredients and your chosen seasoning to make these yummy crispy roasted sweet potatoes!
- 3 large sweet potatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- a pinch of seasoning - I used salt and black pepper, but these are great made with sprout dust too for a little Moroccan style vibe!
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How To Roast Sweet Potatoes
You are just going to love how simple this delicious sweet potato side dish is to make!
Step One - Preheat the oven
- Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F / Gas Mark 6
Step Two - peel and dice the sweet potatoes
- Peel the skin from the sweet potatoes - if you've got nice clean sweet potatoes with good skin, then you can just scrub them and dry them well - roasted sweet potato skin is delicious!
- Chop the sweet potatoes into bite-sized cubes and throw them into a mixing bowl. Chopping them into small cubes means they'll roast faster!
Step Three - toss over the olive oil
- Pour the olive oil over the potatoes and toss them together using your hands to coat all the diced sweet potatoes in olive oil, ready to roast.
Step Four - how long to roast sweet potatoes
- Scatter the sweet potatoes in a single layer on a baking tray - season with salt, black pepper and any other seasoning you're using.
- Then put the tray into the oven and roast for 15 minutes.
- Then remove the tray, turn the potatoes and pop them back in the oven and continue roasting for around 10 more minutes or until the sweet potatoes are starting to turn golden on the edges and are soft in the centres.
Step Five - serve!
- Remove the roasted sweet potatoes from the oven and serve alongside your favourite dinner.
We love them just as they are, topped with a fried egg!
Make Oven Roasted Sweet Potatoes Your Way!
We've given you the basic, super easy way to make roast sweet potatoes. But, you can take this recipe in your own direction and flavour it your way!
Make spicy roast sweet potatoes
Add a freshly chopped chilli, pinch of chilli powder or even curry powder to your diced potatoes before roasting. This will add a kick of heat.
Make sweet dessert style roast sweet potatoes... yes it's a thing!
Sprinkle some brown sugar or a drizzle of honey over the potatoes when they have about 15 minutes left to cook.
Then use them to serve with ice-cream or sliced bananas and clotted cream, even wrapped up in a sweet pancake! Delicious!
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Roast Sweet Potatoes
A super easy recipe for oven roasted sweet potatoes AND delicous ways to serve them up!
Ingredients
- 3 sweet potatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- pinch salt
- pinch black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F / Gas Mark 6
- Peel the skin from the sweet potatoes – if you’ve got nice clean sweet potatoes with good skin, then you can just scrub them and dry them well – roasted sweet potato skin is delicious!
- Chop the sweet potatoes into bite-sized cubes and throw them into a mixing bowl. Chopping them into small cubes means they’ll roast faster!
- Pour the olive oil over the potatoes and toss them together using your hands to coat all the diced sweet potatoes in olive oil, ready to roast.
- Scatter the sweet potatoes in a single layer on a baking tray – season with salt, black pepper and any other seasoning you’re using.
- Then put the tray into the oven and roast for 15 minutes.
- Then remove the tray, turn the potatoes and pop them back in the oven and continue roasting for around 10 more minutes or until the sweet potatoes are starting to turn golden on the edges and are soft in the centres.
- Remove the roasted sweet potatoes from the oven and serve alongside your favourite dinner.
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Wendy is the creator of Daisies & Pie, a UK food blog sharing easy meals and home lifestyle tips since 2012
