These easy roasted sweet potatoes are tossed in maple cinnamon butter and cooked until caramelized and tender. A simple yet satisfying side dish that’s perfect for a casual dinner, yet elegant enough for a holiday meal!
We can’t get enough of sweet potatoes! From Hasselback sweet potatoes and sweet potato casserole with marshmallows to twice baked sweet potatoes, they’re always on our table. This recipe for roasted sweet potatoes takes just minutes to put together, but the end result tastes anything but ordinary.
When the cooler weather months roll around, I am all about the sweet potatoes. They’re healthy, inexpensive and readily available. These maple roasted sweet potatoes contain just a handful of ingredients but are big on flavor. It’s one of my favorite side dish recipes for the holidays.
Table of Contents
Roasted Sweet Potatoes Ingredients
To make this recipe, you will need sweet potatoes, butter, maple syrup, cinnamon and salt.
How Do You Make Roasted Sweet Potatoes?
The first step is to peel your sweet potatoes and cut them into uniformly sized pieces. If you prefer, you can leave the skins on your sweet potatoes. I find that sometimes sweet potato skins are tough, so I always remove them before cooking. Toss the potatoes in a mixture of butter, cinnamon, maple syrup and salt, then roast them on a baking sheet to perfection. Serve immediately and enjoy.
Tips For The Perfect Potatoes
- I look for long, thin sweet potatoes because I find that they’re easier to cut into similar sized pieces.
- While I typically make this recipe with orange sweet potatoes such as the garnet or jewel varieties, yellow sweet potatoes will also work. This technique can also be used to roast carrots, butternut squash and pumpkin.
- Serve your yams alongside other main course favorites such as grilled lamb chops, Moroccan chicken, New York strip steak, slow cooker turkey breast or beer can chicken.
- Leftovers will stay fresh in an airtight container for up to 5 days. You can reheat leftovers in a 375 degrees F oven for 10-15 minutes.
Quick Tip
Don’t forget to stir your sweet potatoes halfway through the baking time so that they cook evenly and don’t burn.
Recipe FAQs
For this recipe, you’ll want to keep the heat relatively low because you don’t want the sugars in the maple syrup to burn. Often times vegetables are roasted at high heat, but these sweet potatoes are roasted at 375 degrees so that they get slightly caramelized but don’t blacken.
True yams are grown in Asia and Africa and look very different than what we’re used to seeing labeled as yams here in the United States. You often see bright orange tubers like the ones featured here called yams, but in fact they’re just another variety of sweet potato. In America, you’ll actually see sweet potatoes of many different shapes, sizes and colors at the supermarket, but not true yams.
FOLLOW ME
Roasted Sweet Potato Variations
While this recipe is delicious as-is, you can easily customize the flavors to your tastes.
- Savory: Toss cubed sweet potatoes with olive oil, and herbs and spices such as cumin, black pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, paprika, minced garlic, parsley, thyme or rosemary. Omit the maple syrup.
- Bacon: Place chopped raw bacon on the sheet pan with your potatoes and cut the amount of butter in half. Roast until bacon is crispy.
- Honey: Substitute honey for the maple syrup in this recipe.
- Nuts: Follow the recipe as directed and garnish with chopped candied pecans or candied walnuts.
- Vegetables: Don’t have sweet potatoes on hand? This recipe also works great with carrots or butternut squash. You can also do a combination of veggies by adding something like cauliflower or broccoli.
These roasted sweet potatoes are great alongside smoked tri tip, baked tilapia and Instant Pot short ribs. They also pair perfectly with baked ham for a fabulous holiday meal. Give them a try and watch the rave reviews pour in!
More Side Dish Recipes
Roasted Sweet Potatoes Video
Love This Recipe?
Please leave a 5-star 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 rating in the recipe card below & a review in the comments section further down the page.
Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Maple Butter
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 lbs sweet potatoes peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces
- 6 tablespoons butter melted
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Coat a sheet pan with cooking spray.
- Whisk together the butter, maple syrup, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl.
- Place the sweet potatoes in a single layer on the sheet pan, then pour the maple butter mixture over the top.
- Use a spoon or your hands to toss the sweet potatoes in the butter to coat them evenly.
- Bake for 35 minutes, stirring once halfway through the bake time. Serve immediately.
Notes
- I look for long, thin sweet potatoes because I find that they’re easier to cut into similar sized pieces.
- Don’t forget to stir your sweet potatoes halfway through the baking time so that they cook evenly and don’t burn.
These were a hit at thanksgiving and a request for Christmas!
This might be my new favorite way to make roasted sweet potatoes!! The maple butter adds so much flavor and decadence – it’s delicious!