EASY Oven-Roasted Sweet Potatoes

 Thanksgiving is always such a busy day in the kitchen you're cooking you're baking you're roasting that turkey and making a side dish shouldn't be that big of a task for you and that's why I love the simple dish its oven roasted sweet potatoes and I toss it with fresh and dried herbs and then some butter and oil and it turns into this wonderful deliciousness aromatic and so flavorful and it's sure to be a big hit at the dinner table now for this recipe I don't have exact measurements for ingredients because it can really work for any number of people if you have more guests coming to dinner and you can increase the number of greedy n't sif you have less you can just make a smaller recipe for this video I'm using three fairly large sweet potatoes and I've cubed them into 1-inch pieces you can actually peel them in Cuba my head of time and then just cover them completely in cold water as I've done here now I have some fresh rosemary I also have some fresh thyme and I love fresh thyme it's one of my favorite herbs also going to need some sea salt some black pepper I also use dry basil leaves I use a little bit of garlic powder and we also have a little bit of paprika and it's going to add a little bit of the extra color I also have some avocado oil and I prefer to use avocado oil because it's great for cooking at high temperatures and it doesn't have an aftertaste we're also going to need a little bit of butter now I know I said this recipe is oven roasted sweet potatoes but I'm going to show you a trick to decrease the cooking time I actually start cooking the sweet potatoes on the stovetop I'm going to transfer these into a fairly large pot alright and I'm going to cook this for about 10 minutes and we want those potatoes to start turning tender but not all the way through so they're going to have a little bit of firmness left in them and because season the water with just a little bit of salt and when these are done we're going to come back and I'll show you how you can season them with all the herbs so I've precooked my sweet potatoes and I boiled it for about 10 minutes and you can see they're just starting to turn soft on the outside but they still have a little bit of firmness that's just the way we want it now go in and preheat oven on 350 degrees and I also have a baking sheet ready to put my sweet potatoes on to alright and now I'm going to add about 3 tablespoons of melted butter and I need to about a tablespoon per sweet potato and we're going to pour that on top and then we're going to add about 3 tablespoons of oil as well and it's going to add coating and as an adhesive for all those herbs to stick onto the potatoes we're just going to give it a quick toss okay and now I can start adding some of our herbs I'm going to go ahead and destem some of these fresh thyme Springs just like that just to pull down on the on the stem and the little leaves come right off and we're also gonna add some fresh rosemary just peel it right in there also going to season this with some freshly ground black pepper and I love freshly ground pepper because it just adds so much flavor and the aroma is amazing we're also going to season with lots of salt just sprinkle it on top and you can also give it a little taste throughout the cooking process make sure it has enough salt and a little bit of garlic powder also going to add some dried basil leaves again just eyeball everything if you want more spices and more spices you have a particular spice that you really like go ahead and add it to just a little bit paprika adds a little bit of that red color which is perfect I'm going to toss this all together you want to really coat all the sweet potatoes so everything has a little bit of herb on it I'm going to just pour this into my baking sheet just like that you want to get a spatula and just scrape out any of those herbs that were left back in the pan just like that now we're just going to spread this evenly across the pan just like this and then if you like I like to add a little bit more fresh freshly cracked black pepper on top just add a little bit more seasoning a little bit more salt now I'm going to go ahead and place this into the oven and I'm going to bake it just until it's nice and tender and at the very end we can even turn on the broiler just to give the top of the of the sweet potato a nice golden crisp color I just took these sweet potatoes too out of the oven and the aroma is just unbelievable these smell amazing and they're sure to be a great hit for dinner at Thanksgiving I'm gonna give one a try just look amazing I put them under the broiler for the last couple minutes just to crisp them up all over and give them a nice golden color mmm my favor okay now we're going to transfer this into a nice serving bowl and if you're not planning to serve them right away go ahead and cover them with a little bit of foil just to keep them warm you can also keep them in the oven I'm just going to finish transferring all the sweet potatoes here into my serving bowl and if you liked this video go ahead and subscribe to my youtube channel I post new videos every single week and you could see more recipes like this one you can also visit my website to see more recipes you

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