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5 Tips For Baking The Perfect Sweet Potato
5 tips on how to bake the perfect sweet potato. It is easy to bake the perfect sweet potato by using these quick and essential tips.
Course
Side Dish
Cuisine
American
Prep Time
5
minutes
Cook Time
1
hour
5
minutes
Resting Time
10
minutes
Total Time
1
hour
10
minutes
Servings
1
sweet potato
Calories
191
kcal
Author
Healing Tomato
Ingredients
1
Sweet potato
2
tsp
Extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees
Wash the sweet potato thoroughly. Use a vegetable brush if you have to
Dry it completely
Poke holes in the potato using a fork. I poke the potato in about 5 different locations
Lightly oil the sweet potato
Using aluminum foil, wrap the potato. Don't wrap it too tightly.
Bake for 65 minutes. Turn off the oven and leave the potato in the oven.
Remove from the oven and allow it to cool
Open the foil and split the sweet potato lengthwise.
Using a fork, pull the pulp away from the skin and place the pulp in a bowl
You can discard the skin or use it in a loaded sweet potato recipe
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Nutrition
Serving:
1
Potato
|
Calories:
191
kcal
|
Carbohydrates:
26
g
|
Protein:
2
g
|
Fat:
9
g
|
Saturated Fat:
1
g
|
Sodium:
71
mg
|
Potassium:
438
mg
|
Fiber:
3
g
|
Sugar:
5
g
|
Vitamin A:
18445
IU
|
Vitamin C:
3.1
mg
|
Calcium:
39
mg
|
Iron:
0.8
mg