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This oven roasted sweet potatoes recipe is the only one you need! Season them to perfection, then bake in a hot oven until caramelized.
All hail the sweet potato! This healthy orange vegetable is super versatile: bake it into crispy fries, stuff it with black beans and salsa, or boil it in a hearty stew. But one of our top ways to cook them? Make the best sweet potato recipe: oven roasted sweet potatoes! Dice them up, season with care, and roast until they’re browned and caramelized on the outsides. This basic side dish goes with just about anything.
Want to bake it whole? Go Baked Sweet Potato or Quick Baked Sweet Potato.
How to make sweet potatoes
You don’t even need a recipe for making roasted sweet potatoes! Make this recipe once exactly as written, just to get a feel for the amounts of flavoring. Then you can go free form: and it’s easy to memorize too! Here are the basic steps, then a little more detail in the sections below (or jump to the recipe):
- Preheat the oven to 450°F.
- Dice 2 pounds sweet potatoes into 3/4-inch chunks.
- Season with 2 Tbsp olive oil, 1 tsp garlic powder, and 1 tsp kosher salt.
- Roast about 25 minutes, until tender. No need to stir!
Why to dice into 3/4-inch chunks
This sounds oddly specific, right? But we’ve found that a 3/4-inch dice is the best size for roasted sweet potatoes. A 1/2-inch piece gets small and shriveled, and doesn’t feel like substantial enough bites. 1-inch pieces are rather large and take longer to roast. So 3/4-inch is perfect! (Trust us.)
The flavor secret: garlic powder!
Here’s our flavor secret for roasted sweet potatoes: garlic powder takes sweet potatoes over the top! It doesn’t even taste garlicky: it’s just savory, roasty goodness. To the mix you’ll also add olive oil and kosher salt. The quantities are easy to memorize:
- 2 pounds of sweet potatoes (about 4 medium)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon each kosher salt and garlic powder
Why to roast sweet potatoes at high heat
The best temperature for roasting vegetables? High heat: 450 degrees Fahrenheit or 230 degrees Celsius. Why? This gets them perfectly tender on the inside and caramelized on the outside. Use a lower temperature and it gets cooked through, but not caramelized.
Throw those sweet potatoes onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet, and roast away! The best part? You don’t even need to stir: just leave the potatoes as is to make them beautifully caramelized on the bottom. Remove from the oven and enjoy!
Ways to serve these roasted sweet potatoes
The most basic way to serve this sweet potato recipe is as a side dish. It works equally as well for weeknight meals or for holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. But get a little more creative, and they’re just as good in a taco or part of a bowl meal! Here are the best ways we’ve found to serve roasted sweet potatoes:
- On a salad. Make a sweet potato salad by layering greens, pepitas, feta crumbles, and balsamic vinaigrette.
- With seafood. Try it with baked salmon, broiled salmon or baked shrimp.
- In a taco. Make sweet potato tacos with refried beans, salsa, and spicy sour cream.
- In a bowl meal. Throw them into a roasted vegetable bowl, rice bowl, or grain bowl.
- With an egg. Top a bowl with an egg, and you’ve got a savory breakfast.
More ways to make roasted sweet potatoes
In the mood for something different? You can also make whole roasted sweet potatoes, or cut your potatoes into alternate shapes and it’s a whole new recipe. Here are a few options:
- Bake them whole. Make Baked Sweet Potatoes, which are perfect for stuffing and turning into a meal.
- Bake them halved. Cut them in half and they roast even faster! Try Quick Baked Sweet Potatoes.
- Make sweet potato wedges. Slice them into wedges and they’re ideal finger food. Go to Sweet Potato Wedges.
- Make fries. Everyone’s favorite sweet potato recipe? These Best Ever Sweet Potato Fries.
- Add them to a salad. Make this delicious Sweet Potato Salad!
Want more ideas? Go to 25 Best Sweet Potato Recipes.
This roasted sweet potatoes recipe is…
Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, and dairy free.
Roasted Sweet Potatoes
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 4 to 6 1x
Description
This oven roasted sweet potatoes recipe is the only one you need! Season them to perfection, then bake in a hot oven until caramelized.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds sweet potatoes (about 4 medium)
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Dice the sweet potatoes into 3/4” cubes, leaving the skin on. In a large bowl, mix together the sweet potatoes with the olive oil, garlic powder, and kosher salt.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the sweet potatoes on top in an even layer. Bake for about 25 minutes, until the cubes are tender and browned on the bottom (no need to stir!). Serve warm. Store leftovers refrigerated. Make ahead instructions: Make up to 3 days in advance and reheat in a 350 degree oven (or microwave or on the stovetop).
Notes
Sweet potatoes hard to cut? This is the one chef’s knife we use every day.
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Roasted
- Cuisine: American
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So awesome! Ty! I have only had baked sweet potatoes, and that perhaps twice. This roasted recipe was really nummy! I made it in my air fryer and it was quick and flavorful. Thank you!
I made these they were good.
I love these with cumin or chili powder.
Im making this now and just wanted to point out the instructions on parchment paper say not to heat over 400 degrees so it won’t be safe to roast with it at 450 degrees.
I had 2 sweet potatoes just sitting here. I wanted something easy & tasty! Oh my these are wonderful. They just came out of the oven. I can’t wait to try in a salad later. I really don’t enjoy cooking but I’m feeling a little Michelin now.
Thanks so much!
Get out of here,delicious!Made these along with chicken & shrimp skewers and other veggies for a bbq with neighbors,they were asking me for the recipe,gave them your site,keep up great recipes
Wife cannot tolerate garlic Fodmap a no no so I sub cumin and ground thyme.
I love this recipe. Can I freeze the leftovers?
Yes, frozen sweet potatoes should work! They will likely be a bit more soggy after defrosting, so keep that in mind.
I’m looking for sweet potato recipe that I went out n we ate at cafe OMG they had sweet potato kinda sliced n were sweet I loved them must have baked in syrup or something else by golly they were delicious but I’m gonna try yours diced up recipe