Baked sweet potatoes with spiced butter

Meltingly soft, deliciously tasty! It’s easy to make simple baked sweet potatoes extra-special with this spiced butter topping. A gorgeous side dish or simple veggie main.

It’s astonishing what you can do with just three simple ingredients. These baked sweet potatoes are a perfect, virtually-no-effort side dish, and they are SO simple to make. We love them for Rosh Hashanah (Jewish new year) or honestly, any time from about September through till April!

Easy side dish, lunch or supper

While they usually appear as a side dish, you could happily serve these baked sweet potatoes as a light lunch or supper, with nothing more than a lovely green salad. They’re meltingly soft, sweet, and deliciously tasty. You won’t regret the two and half minutes of input required to make these!

Simple pleasures

Of course you can try to tell everyone how much trouble you went to making these delicious baked sweet potatoes, but probably no-one will believe you. Better instead to remind your diners how the simplest things in life are often the best, as demonstrated by these fabulous baked spuds.

Sweet potatoes with spiced butter

My daughter Kipper is a big fan of the sweet potato generally and scoffed loads of these, licking her sticky buttery fingers in delight.

DH however, claimed they were, “too buttery.” Can anything really be too buttery? I don’t think so. You can always let people add their own butter to their preference, if you think they’re likely to be fussy about it.

Beating your butter

The spiced butter is very simple to make – simply combined softened butter with a little mixed spice, or your preferred sweet spice blend such as apple pie spice or pumpkin pie spice.

I whizzed the butter up in my mini-chopper, which meant that even that minimal effort involved in this recipe was taken care of by a gadget. If you do beat the butter by hand, let it come to room temperature first. Much easier to do if your butter is nice and soft to start with.

A touch of honey?

If you are planning to serve these as part of a Rosh Hashanah menu, you might also like to drizzle a little honey over your spice-buttered baked sweet potato. I was all for this, but DH, who is diabetic and scorns anything with added sugar, was extremely disapproving. It is gilding the lily a little bit, as the potatoes are pretty sweet to start with. I leave the suggestion with you – do with it what you will.

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Baked sweet potatoes with spiced butter

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Meltingly soft, deliciously tasty! It's easy to make simple baked sweet potatoes extra-special with this spiced butter topping.

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Prep Time 3 minutes mins

Cook Time 57 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Vegetarian

Servings 4

Calories 296 kcal

Ingredients

 

US CustomaryMetric

 

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• 800 g sweet potatoes see note
• 60 g butter
• ½-1 teaspoon mixed spice see note
• 1-2 tablespoon honey – optional

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Line a baking sheet with foil.
• 800 g (28 ⅕ oz) sweet potatoes
  Wash the sweet potatoes and prick each one several times with a fork. Arrange the potatoes on the baking sheet so they are not touching one another.
• Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 45 minutes – 1 hour, until soft and cooked through.
• 60 g (¼ cups) butter, ½-1 teaspoon mixed spice
  Meanwhile, beat the butter and mixed spice together. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate.
• 1-2 tablespoon honey – optional
  When the sweet potatoes are cooked, cut a slit in each one and insert a knob of the spiced butter. Drizzle over some honey if desired, and serve straightaway.

Notes

I used small sweet potatoes, which weighed around 100g (approx. 3½ ounces) each. 

Mixed spice is a traditional British spice blend, popular in baking and desserts. You can also substitute pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice. Alternatively you can mix together cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and cloves to achieve a similar flavour.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Baked sweet potatoes with spiced butter

Amount per Serving

Calories

296

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

12

g

18

%

Saturated Fat

 

8

g

50

%

Trans Fat

 

0.5

g

Polyunsaturated Fat

 

0.5

g

Monounsaturated Fat

 

3

g

Cholesterol

 

32

mg

11

%

Sodium

 

207

mg

9

%

Potassium

 

682

mg

19

%

Carbohydrates

 

45

g

15

%

Fiber

 

6

g

25

%

Sugar

 

13

g

14

%

Protein

 

3

g

6

%

Vitamin A

 

28750

IU

575

%

Vitamin C

 

5

mg

6

%

Calcium

 

66

mg

7

%

Iron

 

1

mg

6

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Keyword butter, sweet potato

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