Baked Japanese Sweet Potatoes
If you can get your hands on these Japanese sweet potatoes, you will be rewarded! Baked Japanese sweet potatoes are not as sweet as the orange sweet potatoes we are used to in the U.S., and they are slightly creamier and starchier. They're different in the best and most delicious way!
Servings 8
Calories 146kcal
Ingredients
- 3 pounds Japanese sweet potatoes about 2 large
- salt pepper, and ghee or butter for serving
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425ºF.
- Scrub the sweet potatoes clean and stab all over with a large fork.
- Bake the sweet potatoes until they're tender all the way through when you poke them with a fork, about 45-90 minutes, depending on the size of the potatoes.
Notes
Serve with ghee or butter and salt and pepper!
Serving size is somewhere around ⅓rd of a pound! Nutrition label is for generic sweet potatoes as Japanese sweet potatoes were not available in this analysis.
Serving size is somewhere around ⅓rd of a pound! Nutrition label is for generic sweet potatoes as Japanese sweet potatoes were not available in this analysis.
Nutrition
Calories: 146kcal | Carbohydrates: 34g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.03g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.001g | Sodium: 94mg | Potassium: 573mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 24132IU | Vitamin B1: 0.1mg | Vitamin B2: 0.1mg | Vitamin B3: 1mg | Vitamin B5: 1mg | Vitamin B6: 0.4mg | Vitamin C: 4mg | Vitamin E: 0.4mg | Vitamin K: 3µg | Calcium: 51mg | Copper: 0.3mg | Folate: 19µg | Iron: 1mg | Manganese: 0.4mg | Magnesium: 43mg | Phosphorus: 80mg | Selenium: 1µg | Zinc: 1mg | Choline: 21mg