How Do You Make And Top A Tasty Baked Sweet Potato?
Sweet potatoes are a great change from regular potatoes. They can be baked, fried, mashed, or diced. Here is how to bake a sweet potato and add a great topping. Select sweet potatoes that are not too large, aim for a medium sized potato. Rinse the skin of the potato thoroughly especially if you will be eating the skin. Wrap the potato in foil and twist the ends of the foil. The result will be a potato that looks like a football. Pierce the potato with a fork through the foil about four or five times in different places all over the potato. This will help vent the potato. Bake in the oven at about 450 degrees for 45 to 60 minutes on a baking sheet. About half way through the cooking, using an oven proof glove, squeeze the potato. It should start to get soft. You will know when it is done when you can squeeze it. The sweet potato can be served several ways. Using a knife cut through the potato starting from one football end to the other. Go about half way deep. Squeeze both ends of the p
