Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Slices Recipe

Name: Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Slices
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 sweet potato (long); 2 teaspoons olive oil; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/8 teaspoon cracked pepper

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These Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Slices are a delicious side dish or snack! They are a great alternative to regular potato fries or wedges.

If you bake a whole sweet potato, it takes a really long time. These Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Slices are done in 15 to 20 minutes. This makes them the perfect quick side dish or snack.

I love to pair these sweet potato slices with other roasted veggies (zucchini, eggplant, Brussels sprouts, carrots) and make a veggie bowl. They are also an excellent side dish for seitan steak, or burgers.

For this recipe, I used a basic salt & pepper seasoning, but you can go wild with different flavors! Garlic powder, dried rosemary, paprika powder, or cinnamon powder, would be great starting points.

How to make Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Slices

As always, you will find the whole recipe in the box below but I want to give you an overview of the needed ingredients and process with step-by-step photos first.

The Ingredients

You will need:

sweet potato (ideally the sweet potato should be long but not too thick otherwise you will end up with really large slices)
olive oil (or peanut oil, sunflower oil, rapeseed oil)
salt
cracked black pepper

The Basic Steps

Making these sweet potato slices is super easy. Here's how it goes:

wavy cut sweet potato slices — Step 2: Peel the sweet potato and cut it into slices of similar thickness. You can use a regular knife or a wavy knife for wavy slices.

sweet potato slices, olive oil, salt and pepper on parchment paper — Step 3: Place the sweet potato slices on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Add the olive oil, salt, and cracked pepper.

coating sweet potato slices in oil — Step 4: Mix them around until they are all well-coated.

sweet potato slices before baking — Step 5: Lay them flat on the baking tray lined with parchment paper.

sweet potato slices after baking — Step 6: Bake them for 15 to 20 minutes at 350°F/180°C.

Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Slices with roasted veggies and falafel — I love these sweet potato slices together with roasted veggies (zucchini, eggplant, onion), falafel, and drizzled with BBQ sauce.

They are such a great side dish! Or you can also serve them with a dip (Garlic Sunflower Seed Dressing).

Sweet Potato Slices FAQ

What can I put on sliced sweet potatoes?

To prepare the sweet potato slices for baking, coat them in olive oil, then you can add different seasonings. Salt & pepper, garlic powder & rosemary, za'atar, ras el hanout, or even brown sugar & cinnamon for a sweeter approach.

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