Baked Sweet Potatoes

Name: Baked Sweet Potatoes
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 , medium sweet potatoes (about 2 pounds), washed, dried, and lightly pricked with a fork in 3 places; 2 tablespoons, olive oil or vegetable oil; , Salt and ground black pepper; , unsalted butter

Side Dishes
Vegetables
Vegetarian
Thanksgiving

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1996

For moist flesh and soft, lightly caramelized skin, oil the potatoes before baking, place them on the middle rack in a 400-degree oven, and never turn them during baking.

SERVES 4

TIME 1¼ hours

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