30 Best Sweet Potato Recipes (2024)

Whether you roast them, mash them, or cover them in marshmallows, sweet potato recipes are always a hit in the fall and around the holidays!

Cubed, left whole, sliced, or diced, there is no shortage of easy ideas for what to make with sweet potatoes all year long or for the holidays too in our collection of the 30 best sweet potato recipes. It's a Whole Lotta Yum!

Sweet potatoes are a beloved starch that many serve during the holiday season. Traditionally baked up with marshmallows, there is so much more you can do with sweet potatoes that are delicious and healthy besides sweet potato casserole!

Whether you are looking to make something simple, hoping to use up some leftover sweet potatoes, or itching to try something new our collection of sweet potato recipes has something for everyone on it!

Speaking of holiday tables, have you seen our holiday recipes?! From quick and simple to savory and delicious, we are helping you cook up the best meals this holiday season.

What to Do with Sweet Potatoes (30 Recipes!)

With 30 different recipes to choose from, we know you are going to fall in love with our wide selection of sweet potato recipes!

We are bringing you all the holiday favorites, including baked, mashed, and casseroles, plus a few new ideas to help you make the best sweet potato recipes for your table all year-long.

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Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Skillet

This ground turkey sweet potato skillet is a delicious one pan dinner for those busy weeknights that the whole family will love. Spice it up and dress it down with your favorite toppings. Dinner tonight will be a Whole Lotta Yum!

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Homemade Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries

Air fryer sweet potato fries are a delicious side dish recipe that is perfect for weeknight cooking (and getting your kids to eat their veggies!).

Start by thinly slicing sweet potatoes and soaking them in water for at least 60 minutes prior to cooking. Thoroughly dry the potato slices, coat them with oil, and season with a mix of cornstarch, garlic powder, onion powder, dried parsley, smoked paprika, and black pepper.

Air fry the seasoned sweet potato fries in a single layer and serve with your favorite dipping sauce.

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Red Pepper Sweet Potato Soup

A healthy and easy sweet potato and red pepper soup recipe with tons of fresh veggies. You'll love this cozy red pepper sweet potato soup that can be made with either coconut milk or heavy whipping cream depending on your mood!

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Taco Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Turn up taco Tuesday with these easy taco stuffed sweet potatoes! Deliciously seasoned turkey piled high inside an air-fried sweet potato and topped with your favorite toppings. A family-friendly meal that invites everyone to customize their own stuffed potato.

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BBQ Chicken Bowl Recipe

Assemble easy and healthy BBQ chicken bowls with roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, BBQ chicken and your favorite garnishes. Easy to adapt!

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Sweet Potato Chickpea Buddha Bowl (Vegan)

A quick and easy vegan buddha bowl recipe that combines sweet potatoes, avocado, chickpeas, and a touch of spicy sauce to make for the perfect meal prep lunch or dinner.

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Air Fryer Sweet Potato Cubes

Served up sweet or savory, this air fryer sweet potatoes cubes recipe is the quick and easy recipe for sweet potatoes that you are going to love all year long!

To make this easy, healthy side dish, take chopped sweet potato cubes and season them with a generous sprinkling of salt & pepper. Then, roast the seasoned cubes in your air fryer for 15-minutes.

And if you prefer your sweet potatoes have a little more flavor, feel free to try the optional seasoning add-ins including cumin, garlic salt, or a pinch of cayenne.

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Mashed Sweet Sweet Potatoes with Pecans and Maple Syrup

Move over traditional mashed potatoes because this mashed sweet potatoes with pecans and maple syrup side dish is about to steal the show!

Boiled sweet potato cubes are pureed and combined with eggs, maple syrup, vanilla, lemon juice, and salt before being topped with a pecan crumble topping made from brown sugar, pecans, and butter. Bake until the whole dish is set and bubbly.

This mashed sweet potato dish is reminiscent of a sweet potato casserole (without the marshmallows) and the perfect side for your holiday table.

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Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes (Cubed)

Whether you are looking for a simple side that your guests can customize on their own, or aiming for the best way to prep sweet potato cubes for other dishes look no further than this Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes (cubed) recipe!

Easy holiday dishes start with making soft, steamed sweet potato cubes in the pressure cooker. Perfect for mashing, turning into casseroles, or serving with a little bit of butter, salt, and pepper, these pressure-cooked sweet potato pieces are always a hit.

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Air Fryer Sweet Potato Slices

Perfect for weeknight dinners as well as your holiday table, the air fryer sweet potato slices are a great option when you don't know what to make with sweet potatoes.

Uniform slices help ensure even cooking, and cumin, paprika, salt, and pepper help ensure a savory side dish. Ready in under 30-minutes, this is one sweet potatoes recipe you are going to want to save to make again and again!

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Sweet Potato Pie

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End your holiday meal with a Southern classic - the sweet potato pie!

Similar to pumpkin pie, the sweet potato pie highlights a delicious vegetable with seasonal flavors including nutmeg and cinnamon and serves it all up in a flaky pie crust.

Top with whipped cream, ice cream, a sprinkle of cinnamon, or serve it plain, either way you slice it, sweet potato pie is an easy Thanksgiving dessert recipe.

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Vegan Sweet Potato Corn Chowder

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This vegan sweet potato corn chowder is a warm and hearty way to enjoy a vegetable soup recipe that is perfect for fall.

With corn, celery, bell pepper, onion, garlic, and sweet potato, this dairy-free chowder recipe is a healthy bowl of deliciousness. Seasoned with chili powder, paprika, salt, and pepper, and blended mostly smooth, vegan sweet potato corn chowder is perfect for enjoying delicious fall vegetables.

Serve as an appetizer or side dish.

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Honey Butter Mashed Sweet Potatoes

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Honey butter mashed sweet potatoes are the perfect side dish for you fall dinners as well as those beautiful holiday meals you are going to make this fall.

Peel and boil sweet potato cubes until fork tender, drain, and then steam to ensure all of the moisture is out of the pot. To the pot, add butter, honey, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pepper, and mash until your sweet potatoes are rich and creamy.

Serve alongside your favorite dinner and make sure to leave a space open on your Thansgiving table as well for these mashed sweet potatoes with honey and butter.

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Baked Sweet Potatoes in Air Fryer

These baked sweet potatoes are roasted int he air fryer and then seasoned with a quick and easy cilantro lime butter that takes your baked potato side dish to a whole new level of yum!

Bake the sweet potatoes in the air fryer until fork tender (40+ minutes). While the sweet potatoes are roasting, make the cilantro lime butter by combining softened butter with fresh cilantro and lime juice.

Add the seasoned butter to the sweet potato, or season simply with just salt, butter, and pepper. Either way, these air fryer baked sweet potatoes are super fluffy and delicious, and ready in less time than traditional oven baking.

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Sweet potato souffle

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Whether you consider this sweet potato souffle a side dish or a dessert, you are going to want to add this sweet and savory egg dish to your meal plans!

Baked and mashed sweet potato is combined with mashed potato and nutmeg and then folded with whipped egg whites. Bake until the centers are still giggly and serve topped with confectioner's sugar for a delicious and savory sweet potato recipe.

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Roasted Sweet Potato Salad

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A delicious fall salad option, roasted sweet potato salad combines all the flavors of the season into a beautiful and vibrant side dish perfect for your holiday table.

Containing kale, roasted sweet potatoes, apple, toasted pecans, and goat cheese, this roasted sweet potato salad is not your simple garden salad dish. Topped with a homemade dressing made from apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, dijon mustard, and garlic cloves, this salad is the perfect way to dress up your table and impress your guests.

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Cinnamon and Spice Sweet Potato Bread

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This cinnamon and spice sweet potato bread is a fantastic way to make sure everyone is enjoying sweet potatoes in your home!

Whether you swap your dinner rolls for this sweet potato bread, or serve it for a deliciously different breakfast option, your family is going to love this vegetable bread. Made with sweet potatoes, buttermilk, flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves, this bread recipe will have your house smelling like fall long before it's done baking.

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Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Cream Sauce [Paleo | Whole30]

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Sweet potato gnocchi with cream sauce is the healthy dinner recipe you didn't know you were missing out on!

This paleo and Whole30-approved recipe has you expertly making homemade gnocchi using boiled and mashed sweet potato cubes and oat flour to make the dough, and then walks you step by step through the process of cooking the gnocchi pieces.

Make a cream sauce with onions, mushrooms, and Andouis sausages and you have a delicious sweet potato recipe that can serve as either a flavorful main course or a delicious side dish for your holiday table.

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Frozen Sweet Potato Fries in Air Fryer

Perfectly cooked every time, this frozen sweet potato fries in air fryer recipe is the only one you will ever need!

Grab your favorite bag of frozen sweet potato fries and preheat that air fryer. Cook your sweet potato fries in a single layer for 12-15 minutes and serve with your favorite dipping sauces.

A quick and simple recipe for air fryer sweet potato fries that helps you spend more time with your family while still serving up great food choices.

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Sweet Potato Cake

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Yes, you read that correctly - we have found a sweet potato cake recipe that looks like it will make a fan out of any sweet potato critic!

With multiple cake layers made from sweet potatoes, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground ginger, plus a delicious marshmallow filling and toasted pecans, topped with a creamy pecan buttercream frosting, this sweet potato cake is going to be the start attraction of your holiday table.

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The BEST Sweet Potato Biscuits

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If you are looking for the best sweet potato biscuits stop scrolling and check these out!

Perfect for your holiday breakfast, these light and fluff southern style biscuits are made with cooled mashed sweet potatoes right inside the flour, butter, and buttercream mixture.

These rolled biscuits need just 15-20 minutes in the oven before they are ready to be served with your favorite holiday breakfast items.

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Hasselback Herbed Garlic Butter Sweet Potatoes

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A delicious alternative to traditional baked potatoes, Hasselback herbed garlic butter sweet potatoes are here to show you just how amazing sweet potatoes can be.

Prepare your sweet potatoes by slicing them evenly without slicing all the way through. Top with garlic butter and either microwave or bake and serve.

Hasselback sweet potatoes are cooked with the seasoning on them, so they always come out bursting with delicious flavor.

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Sweet Potato Cheesecake

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If you are looking to ty something new this year with your sweet potato recipes, then look no further than this sweet potato cheesecake.

A homemade graham cracker and pecan crust is filled with a mixture of cream cheese, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, sour cream, heavy cream, eggs, and mashed sweet potatoes before being baked for 50-60 minutes.

Drizzle with a topping made from brown sugar, butter, whipping cream, and pecans, and enjoy this decadent sweet potato dessert recipe.

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Sweet Potato Dinner Rolls

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Sweet potato dinner rolls are a classic recipe that is a comfort food favorite at many holiday tables.

Mashed or priced sweet potato is combined with buttermilk, butter, eggs, honey, yeast, and flour to create a delicious bread dough. Rest and rise before shaping the sweet potato bread dough into dinner rolls. Top with an egg wash and bake until crisp on the outside and warm and flaky on the inside.

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Vegan Sweet Potato Pudding

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This vegan sweet potato pudding recipe needs just 10-minutes of your time to turn your favorite fall vegetable into a delicious dessert recipe.

In a food processor, combine mashed sweet potatoes, non-dairy milk, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, ground ginger, and ground nutmeg. Blend until combine thoroughly and then chill until you are ready to serve.

A fantastic alternative to heavy dessert recipes for your holiday meal, be sure to try this vegan sweet potato pudding recipe.

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Texas Roadhouse loaded sweet potato copycat recipe

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This Texas Roadhouse loaded sweet potato copycat recipe combines baked sweet potatoes with honey butter, caramel sauce, and mini marshmallows to create a deliciously sweet side dish with sweet potatoes.

Begin by baking your sweet potatoes in the oven. Make the honey butter by adding cinnamon, honey, and vanilla to the softened butter. Make the caramel sauce by combining butter, brown sugar, and honey in a saucepan and simmering until thickened.

Top the baked sweet potatoes with the honey butter, a few mini marshmallows, and the caramel sauce. Bake for a few minutes to warm everything and serve.

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Healthy Flourless Sweet Potato Muffins

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These healthy flourless sweet potato muffins are the gluten-free, vegan way to enjoy sweet potato muffins without stepping off of your healthy eating plan.

With rolled oats, sweetener, nutmeg, cinnamon, milk (or milk substitutes), and sweet potatoes, this muffin recipe is oven-ready in just a few minutes, and breakfast table ready in under 30-minutes!

The perfect way to start your fall morning, healthy flourless sweet potato muffins are a great way to get your veggies in.

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Sweet Potato Everything Bagel Chips (Healthy, Paleo)

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Turn your sweet potatoes into a fun snack with this sweet potato everything bagel chips recipe.

This healthy sweet potato chip recipe takes thin sweet potato slices drizzled with olive oil and everything bagel seasoning and bakes them to crispy perfection in less than 20 minutes.

Serve as-is or add in the optional cream cheese dip. Makes a great snack or appetizer.

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Sweet Potato Latkes

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Sweet potato latkes are the deliciously different way to make a sweet potato pancake in under 30 minutes.

Shredded sweet potato is combined with flour, onion, garlic, and egg to form a dough that can be shaped into the latkes. Cooked in a castiron skillet, the sweet potato latkes are crisp on the outside but soft and delicious on the inside.

Serve as-is or make the option honey yogurt for dipping.

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The BEST Sweet Potato Cinnamon Rolls

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Kick off fall right with the best sweet potato cinnamon rolls you have ever tried.

With mashed sweet potato right in the dough, these cinnamon rolls expertly combine a soft, flaking batter, with a cinnamon sugar filling, and are topped with a brown butter cream cheese glaze that even includes pecans.

A fantastic breakfast treat for the weekend or your holiday gatherings, sweet potato cinnamon rolls are a great sweet potato recipe.

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FAQs

What's the healthiest way to eat sweet potatoes? ›

Boiling may actually retain most of the antioxidant power of sweet potatoes, compared to roasting and steaming. If we compare baking to boiling microscopically, boiling helps thin out the cell walls and gelatinize the starch, which may enhance the bioavailability of nutrients.

Why is boiling not good for sweet potatoes? ›

While boiling makes sweet potatoes tender, it doesn't help much with their flavor. Most dishes that call for boiled sweet potatoes would be improved if you used roasted or baked sweet potatoes.

What makes sweet potatoes better? ›

Because of their fiber and vitamin contents, sweet potatoes are often considered the healthier choice between the two. Sweet potatoes are likely healthier than regular potatoes. They have a lower GI, more fiber, and large amounts of beta carotene.

What part of the body are sweet potatoes good for? ›

Just one sweet potato gives you 102% of the vitamin A you need each day. This helps keep your eyes healthy as well as your immune system, your body's defense against germs. It's also good for your reproductive system and organs like your heart and kidneys.

Should you eat the skin of sweet potatoes? ›

The Bottom Line

You can eat sweet potato skin. It's a good source of fiber, a nutrient that may help lower the risk of heart disease and keep you feeling full for longer periods of time. The next time you make a sweet potato dish, whether it's a roasted side dish or a hearty, cozy casserole, leave the peel on.

Should you peel sweet potatoes before boiling? ›

There is not much difference between boiling sweet potatoes with the skins on versus peeling them, but you will get a boost of fiber and potassium if you keep the skin on. The skin also adds a subtle texture to each bite. If you're looking for a smoother mash, peel the potatoes first before boiling.

Is it healthier to bake or microwave a sweet potato? ›

It's really the best way. Microwaving sweet potatoes cuts down cook time by 45 to 55 minutes, and, according to a 2018 study, helps maintain the potato's nutritional value. All cooking methods cause foods to lose some of their nutrients, but the quicker your potato cooks, the more nutrients it will retain.

Are sweet potatoes better for you than baked potatoes? ›

Though they can both be part of a healthy diet, sweet potatoes are generally healthier than regular potatoes, partly because of their incredibly high vitamin A content. Sweet potatoes are also lower on the glycemic index, meaning that they are less likely than regular potatoes to make your blood sugar spike.

Why add eggs to sweet potato casserole? ›

The egg is the all-important binder in a sweet potato casserole: it enriches and stiffens the mixture without making it heavy. Make sure to cool the mash slightly before adding the egg so it doesn't scramble, and to stir well so there are no streaks of cooked egg white in the finished dish.

Why are roasted sweet potatoes so good? ›

The salt and pepper accent the potatoes' sweetness, creating a delectable sweet and savory flavor. I also love how the cubes puff up as they bake, becoming lightly crisp and caramelized on the outside and tender in the middle. And third, they're just so versatile.

What brings out the flavor of sweet potatoes? ›

Browning butter packs in tons of flavor, without dulling the sweet potatoes. Slow-roasting the sweet potatoes activates endogenous enzymes that bring out their natural sweetness. A touch of maple syrup, butter, and a bit of chopped thyme are the only embellishments these naturally sweet sweet potatoes need.

Which color sweet potato is healthiest? ›

Sweet Potatoes and Health

Sweet potatoes with orange flesh are richest in beta-carotene. Sweet potatoes with purple flesh are richer in anthocyanins. Beta-carotene and anthocyanins are naturally occurring plant “phyto” chemicals that give vegetables their bright colors.

What is the most nutritious way to eat sweet potatoes? ›

The study did find that boiling sweet potatoes retains more beta-carotene and makes it more absorbable than other cooking methods, such as frying, baking or steaming.

Are sweet potatoes healthier cooked or raw? ›

Cooked sweet potatoes are higher in sugar, as the heat turns starches into maltose for easier digestion, providing a sweeter flavor than raw sweet potatoes [13]. More sugar increases blood sugar after eating, causing concerns about blood pressure and diabetes [14].

Is it healthier to steam or bake sweet potatoes? ›

Steaming is also one of the best ways to keep sweet potatoes' nutrients intact; their naturally high vitamin, potassium, fiber, and beta-carotene content won't be burned off in a steamer basket. Both boiling and steaming also keeps the potatoes' glycemic index down, meaning less of a blood sugar spike for you.

Are sweet potatoes healthy for losing weight? ›

Absolutely. Besides their health benefits, sweet potatoes are a great addition to any weight loss diet. First up, they're very high in fibre — especially soluble fibre. Soluble fibre is excellent because it slows down your digestion and helps you feel full, which can curb the urge to snack between meals.

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