Baked Sweet Potatoes ♥ Recipe & Temperature

Back to Basics: How to roast or bake sweet potatoes in the oven. It's as easy as easy can be: just rub the sweet potatoes with a little oil and bake. (We're baking whole sweet potatoes here, no need for any knife work at all!) This is a great way to cook a lot of sweet potatoes at once, also my favorite way to cook just a couple of sweet potatoes for dinner or for later when the oven is already on. Not just vegan, "Vegan Done Real".

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. Baked Sweet Potatoes were the perfect solution!

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