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How To Bake A Sweet Potato
By Leeanne Utiger
This article is all about how to bake a sweet potato. So if you want to serve a meal for guests or even just your family and want to know how to bake a sweet potato, I suggest you keep reading.
A sweet potato is a root vegetable and obviously with the name it holds, is sweeter in taste than your average potato. However you can add flavours to a baked sweet potato if you choose to.
You will learn how to bake a sweet potato using a variety of cooking methods and cooking appliances.
When you learn how to bake a sweet potato you will also learn how to prepare your sweet potato before actually baking it. To begin with, I suggest you peel the skin off the sweet potato. However some people are known to bake a sweet potato with the skin on, and then when eating the baked sweet potato, simply scoop out and eat the flesh of the sweet potato. It really all comes down to personal individual preference as to how you want to learn to bake a sweet potato. Just remember, that if you do want to bake a sweet potato leaving the skin on (otherwise known as the jacket of the sweet potato), do not eat this when you serve it up.
Once you have peeled your sweet potato using either a potato peeler of a small sharp pearing knife, place the peeled sweet potato in to a bowl of cold water until you are ready to bake it. The cold water will keep the sweet potato fresh and will prevent it from going brown on sitting.
When you learn how to bake a sweet potato, you will also learn how to use your oven when you want to bake. You will learn what temperature to set your oven at and what option of cooking method to set your oven at.
When most people bake a sweet potato, or any vegetable, they have generally previously for the same meal baked (otherwise known as roasted) a piece of meat. So once you have baked your piece of meat, remove this from the over and oven dish, cover and keep it warm. Now you are ready to know how to bake a sweet potato.
Take the cut up, peeled pieces of sweet potato out of the bowl of cold water you prepared earlier, and simply place in to the oven dish you baked your piece of meat in. The juices from the meat you baked will help to bake and give flavour to the sweet potato you want to learn how to bake.
Once you placed the pieces of sweet potato into the oven dish that contains the excess juices from the piece of meat you baked, place the oven dish back into the oven. You want this to be placed on the rack in the middle of your oven. Set the temperature to approximately 160 degrees Celsius. Also make sure you have the oven control set on bake, not grill.
Leave this in the oven for approximately 20 to 30 minutes to bake and cook through. Once the 20 to 30 minute time frame is up, turn the pieces of sweet potato over to cook the other side. Cook for a further 20 to 30 minutes. You may want to turn the sweet potato pieces over one more time for a further 5 to 10 minutes. You will also want to know how to tell if a sweet potato is cooked enough. Simply poke a sharp knife into a piece of sweet potato and see if the flesh is soft. If it is, then it has baked sufficiently enough for eating. Turn your oven off and remove the baking dish out of the oven and serve the baked sweet potato with the rest of the vegetables and your piece of previously baked meat onto dinner plates and then serve.
You can of course on first placing the sweet potato in to the baking dish, sprinkle with seasoning to add to the baked flavour of the sweet potato. Try using ground black pepper. You can purchase from your local supermarket many seasoning flavours. Do not be scared to experiment a little. That is what cooking and baking is all about.
You will also learn how to bake sweet potatoes using other appliances. Simply use the same method of baking as above, yet replace the use of your oven with an electric fry pan with a lid. This bakes a sweet potato just as adequately as an oven does. However, the baking time may vary slightly.
That is all there is to learning how to bake a sweet potato. Enjoy!
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