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Rub the skin with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake the sweet potatoes for 30 minutes. Rotate the pan 180 degrees and bake for an additional 15-30 minutes. A fork or knife should be easily inserted into the center of the potato when it’s finished baking. Remove from the oven and allow the potatoes to cool for 5 minutes.

Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil, then set a wire rack inside the baking sheet. Prick each of the sweet potatoes 5 times with a fork and place on top of the prepared rack, keeping space between potatoes to allow heat to circulate.

Chop sweet potatoes into cubes, drizzle with olive oil, then bake on sheet pan at 425F for 30 minutes. Pierce sweet potatoes with a fork, wrap in foil, then bake in the oven for 1 hour, until soft and tender. Then there鈥檚 the no-baking way to bake a sweet potato in the Instant Pot.

Here are the best ways to serve a baked sweet potato: Mexican-style. Make our Mexican sweet potatoes by topping with black bean salsa and creamy cilantro sauce. Sour cream fresh dill. They become a stellar side. Thai-style.