Baked Purple Sweet Potatoes

5 from 1 vote

A delicious and fun alternative to baked potatoes or baked sweet potatoes! If you can find purple sweet potatoes at your grocery store, pick them up! Purple sweet potatoes taste similar to the orange variety, and have high antioxidant levels. The potatoes in these photos are Stokes Purple Sweet Potatoes. Try it with Okinawans also.

Prep Time5

Cook Time1

Total Time1 5

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 143kcal

Author: Michelle Miller

Ingredients

4 purple sweet potatoes Stokes or Okinawan varieties recommended
1 tablespoon avocado oil or olive oil
coarse sea salt optional, to coat skins

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400º F.
Wash sweet potatoes, and trim the ends. Cut out any spots that are going bad, if necessary.
Rub or spray the potatoes with avocado oil or olive oil. This step is optional, but it helps give the skins a crispy, delicious taste.
Sprinkle the potatoes with coarse sea salt.
Place the potatoes in a baking dish, then cover with a layer of parchment paper. Wrap the baking dish tightly in foil.
Bake the potatoes for 1 hour covered. Remove the foil and parchment, and continue baking for an additional 15 minutes, to crisp the skin.
Serve as you would serve a baked sweet potato.

Notes

Since Stokes and Okinawan purple sweet potatoes cook similarly to orange sweet potatoes, you can sub them in for your favorite sweet potato recipes.

Try these options:

Sweet Potato Pizza Crust: The purple-hued potatoes will make beautiful pizza crusts!
Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes: The Instant pot keeps sweet potatoes extra moist, since they are essentially steamed. This is a great method for cooking the starchier, purple variety potatoes!
Sweet Potato Waffles: Peel and shred the purple sweet potatoes for a vibrant take on sweet potato waffles!
Sweet Potato Breakfast Skillet: Even the drier Murasaki and Charleston purple sweet potatoes will work well in this sweet potato hash breakfast, since cooking them in oil will help them maintain more moisture.

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