Oven Baked Sweet Potato Recipe

The baked sweet potato recipe that follow produces some excellent results. You'll notice that I list the ingredients without exact measurements.

This was not done by accident.

For the best tasting sweet potatoes, every created, you'll need to taste and tweak this recipe to your personal liking to get a real taste of home cooking.

Sweet Potato Recipe

Sweet potatoes
Sugar
Ground cinnamon
Ground nutmeg
Fresh orange juice
Lemon zest
Salted butter (melted)

Preheat oven to 350°.

Peal skin from potatoes and discard. Gently wash sweet potatoes under running cold water. Pat dry and arrange potatoes into a single layer on a baking dish.

In a small bowl, combine the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange juice and lemon zest. Mix well and adjust ingredients to taste. Mixture should be wet.

Spread melted butter evenly over potatoes then generously add wet mixture.

Bake sweet potatoes on center oven rack until easily pierced with a fork, about 1-1/2 hours.

Serve with your favorite meat dish and another side dish.

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