You can eat an oven-baked sweet potato just like a regular baked potato, leaving the skin on while cooking it, then slicing it open and eating the flesh once it's cooked, ideally with all sorts of awesome toppings. It'll be perfect with just butter, salt, and pepper, really.
All you need is a baking sheet, a fork, and a conventional oven.
- Preheat your oven to 400º Fahrenheit.
- Rinse and scrub the exterior of the sweet potato, coat lightly with olive oil (or a vegetable oil), and then pierce the skin in four or five places with the tines of a fork or in eight or nine places with the tip of a knife.
- Bake on a metal baking sheet for 45 minutes (40 for smaller sweet potatoes, 50 for larger).
- Remove, carefully slice open, and serve.
Pretty easy, right? But not too efficient, time wise. So let's try it another way.
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