By Chef Lucy
Sweet Potatoes are staple foods in Africa and commonly prepared and eaten in various forms as side dishes. Sweet Potatoes can be cooked in the oven as baked or they can be roasted.
Today i provide you with some tips on which you can be able to bake sweet potatoes very well.
Ingredients required
- Sweet Potatoes as many in number as you want.
- Olive or Vegetable oil.
- Oven or Heat Source.
Procedure to be followed
1. Wash the sweet potatoes and use a fork to pierce them one at a time and hold them under running water from a tap, use a scrub to remove the dirt from them.
When you pierce the potatoes, you will allow steam to escape from the potatoes when they are cooking. Make sure that you stick the tines of the fork to about 1.3 cm inside the flesh of the potatoes.
Repeat this procedure for about 6 to 12 times, ensuring that you have pierced all the sides of the potatoes. You should make as many sweet potatoes as you need.
2. Prepare the heat source or Oven that you are going to use ensuring that it is atleast at a temperatue of 204 degrees centigrade and then start oiling the outside of the potatoes. Use vegatable Oil or Olive oil making sure that you lightly coat the outside of the potatoes.
This helps to ensure that the skin is moist and also smooth. Put a few drops of oil on the potatoes and then rub it around using your hands.
3. Wrap the potatoes loosely with aluminium foil so that they can be cooked uniformly while leaving a little space at the ends so that steam can be able to escape easily.
4. Start baking the potatoes in the Oven or heat source that you are using for about 45 minutes. Place the potatoes that have been wrapped with aluminium foil in the middle rack of your oven.
After the potatoes have baked for 45 minutes, you should pick up one potato and test it using a fork by piercing through it, if the fork pierces easily through the potatoes then it means that they are ready but if not then you should allow it to bake for some more time,this could be 5 minutes until it is ready or soft.
5. Leave the potatoes that you have baked in the oven for about 15 minutes after they have been baked.
Switch off the Oven but allow the potatoes to remain in the Oven for about 10-15 minutes this makes them to cook evenly.
When the time is up, you should use the potholder to remove the potatoes out of the oven since they will still be very hot at the time.
6. Serve the Potatoes while hot and enjoy. If you have leftovers, you can place them in an airtight container and then put them in the fridge.
Sweet Potatoes are staple foods in Africa and commonly prepared and eaten in various forms as side dishes. Sweet Potatoes can be cooked in the oven as baked or they can be roasted.
Today i provide you with some tips on which you can be able to bake sweet potatoes very well.
Ingredients required
- Sweet Potatoes as many in number as you want.
- Olive or Vegetable oil.
- Oven or Heat Source.
Procedure to be followed
1. Wash the sweet potatoes and use a fork to pierce them one at a time and hold them under running water from a tap, use a scrub to remove the dirt from them.
When you pierce the potatoes, you will allow steam to escape from the potatoes when they are cooking. Make sure that you stick the tines of the fork to about 1.3 cm inside the flesh of the potatoes.
Repeat this procedure for about 6 to 12 times, ensuring that you have pierced all the sides of the potatoes. You should make as many sweet potatoes as you need.
2. Prepare the heat source or Oven that you are going to use ensuring that it is atleast at a temperatue of 204 degrees centigrade and then start oiling the outside of the potatoes. Use vegatable Oil or Olive oil making sure that you lightly coat the outside of the potatoes.
This helps to ensure that the skin is moist and also smooth. Put a few drops of oil on the potatoes and then rub it around using your hands.
3. Wrap the potatoes loosely with aluminium foil so that they can be cooked uniformly while leaving a little space at the ends so that steam can be able to escape easily.
4. Start baking the potatoes in the Oven or heat source that you are using for about 45 minutes. Place the potatoes that have been wrapped with aluminium foil in the middle rack of your oven.
After the potatoes have baked for 45 minutes, you should pick up one potato and test it using a fork by piercing through it, if the fork pierces easily through the potatoes then it means that they are ready but if not then you should allow it to bake for some more time,this could be 5 minutes until it is ready or soft.
5. Leave the potatoes that you have baked in the oven for about 15 minutes after they have been baked.
Switch off the Oven but allow the potatoes to remain in the Oven for about 10-15 minutes this makes them to cook evenly.
When the time is up, you should use the potholder to remove the potatoes out of the oven since they will still be very hot at the time.
6. Serve the Potatoes while hot and enjoy. If you have leftovers, you can place them in an airtight container and then put them in the fridge.
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