Baked Sweet Potatoes

It seems you can find sweet potatoes practically year-round. Here is a simple recipe for baking them.

When you choose them look for the darkest orange ones you can find. A lot of sweet potatoes are mislabeled in stores and sold as yams. The darker orange the more vitamins you will have in them. There are also Okinawan Purple Yams (really a sweet potato) which are purple inside! They are very tasty!!! Yams are very different and usually not available in USA markets. I have included some pictures for you to see the difference.

To bake these up is a cinch.

Serving size is one medium potato. So prepare as many as you need.

1. Preheat oven to 425F

2. Scrub potatoes thoroughly with a potato brush. Blot them dry then prick them with a fork. Wrap them individually in foil.

3. Place in preheated oven for 40-60 minutes, or until tender.

4. To serve, roll them gently to loosen them up. Score the foil and push the potatoes in from the ends.

I serve them with butter, and cinnamon-sugar.

A Yam has a scaly rough skin. A sweet potato has a smooth skin.

Yams usually have "toes" on them. Sweet potatoes are just one long tuber.