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Baked sweet potato

  • Sweet Potato, peeled
  • Medium-Grain Salt
  • Black Peppercorn, ground
  • Unsalted Butter
  1. Preheat oven to 425ºF (218ºC).
  2. Prepare sweet potatoes. Poke sweet potatoes a few times to vent. Arrange on a foil-lined sheetpan.
  3. Bake 60 minutes at 425ºF.
  4. Season with salt and pepper and serve with butter.

  1. Bittman, Mark. How to Cook Everything. 10th Anniversary Edition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. "Sweet Potatoes, Simply Cooked." 358. ↩