You can’t really get more basic that just baking a sweet potato in foil. I have learned that if you spice up the outside a little bit, you get a really great flavor. So this recipe does a little of that. Depending on the size of the sweet potato you may want to increase or decrease the spices. Use what you like to get a flavor that appeals to you.
Old-School Baked Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 1 large Sweet Potato
- 1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon Pumpkin pie spice
- 1/4 teaspoon Ginger
- 1 teaspoon Butter
Instructions
- Puncture the skin in several places with a fork
- Preheat your oven to 350F
- Lay out a piece of foil large enough to wrap around the sweet potato twice.
- Put the butter directly on the foil
- Sprinkle the spices over the butter
- Set the sweet potato onto the butter and spices
- Wrap the sweet potato
- Bake at least 40 minutes
- Remove the sweet potato from the oven
- Unwrap the foil
- Cut the sweet potato in half longwise and serve