Baked Sweet Potatoes

Name: Baked Sweet Potatoes
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 , medium sweet potatoes (about 2 pounds), washed, dried, and lightly pricked with a fork in 3 places; 2 tablespoons, olive oil or vegetable oil; , Salt and ground black pepper; , unsalted butter

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1996

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For moist flesh and soft, lightly caramelized skin, oil the potatoes before baking, place them on the middle rack in a 400-degree oven, and never turn them during baking.

SERVES4

TIME1¼ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted to find the perfect baked sweet potato recipe, moist inside with a soft, caramelized skin. We pierced the potatoes’ skins with a fork and rubbed the potatoes with oil and then baked them on a foil-lined baking sheet set on the mid...

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