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Jacket sweet potato

50 min • 1 per potato servings •
David
Baked sweet potato topped with butter and black pepper, served on a plate with salt and pepper shakers in the background.

I am willing to bet there won’t be a simpler recipe than this published anywhere. I am submitting it because, following a recent straw poll, too many people didn’t think they could cook a sweet potato this way.

For those of you (probably most of you) who do know that a sweet potato can be cooked in its jacket just as a regular spud, apologies if you have made it this far.

Ready

  • 1 sweet potato per person
  • Salt and pepper
  • Butter

    • Set

  • Baking tray

    • Go!

  • Heat the oven to 350°F.
  • Place the sweet potato on a baking tray.
  • Remove from the oven when you can pass a skewer through the potato with ease (usually about 45 minutes).
  • Cut the skin and insert a knob of butter and add a little seasoning.

    • sweet potato vegetable vegetarian

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