Here’s how to cook sweet potatoes in the oven or microwave to yield the absolute best roasted sweet potatoes you will ever taste!

The best oven baked sweet potatoes

The following baking steps and three easy tricks will forever revolutionize how you cook sweet potatoes.

Even if you are already a sweet potato lover, prepare to be amazed.

Try this cooking method just once, and suddenly you will crave sweet potatoes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all of the meals in between.

This is one of those recipes you need to try for yourself in order to believe the shocking improvement in results.

Instead of hard, slightly sweet, or unevenly cooked results that many sweet potato recipes yield, this guide on how to cook sweet potatoes gives you sweet, sticky, wonderfully caramelized sweet potatoes every single time!
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Tips and tricks for how to cook sweet potatoes

Tip #1: Choose thinner sweet potatoes

This may sound counter intuitive, as conventional wisdom will tell you to go for the plumpest, juiciest looking sweet potatoes at the store instead of the thin ones.

But that advice is a mistake, and here is why.

While baking, the heat will evenly cook even the very center of the thinner potatoes, getting them all hot and caramelized.

In contrast, the outsides of thicker potatoes will be done well before the centers have a chance to lose their firm texture and cook through fully.

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