Recipe: Delicious Baked Sweet Potato

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 15:07
Darryl Edwards in Recipes, Sweet Potato

Delicious Baked Sweet Potato 

Baking...

Serves:

1-2 people

Preparation Time:

less than 5 minutes

Ingredients:

1 large sweet potato, unpeeled

1 tablespoon (3 teaspoons) of coconut oil.

Black pepper and paprika to taste

Instructions:

1. Wash sweet potato throughly, and pierce the sweet potato with a fork several times
2. Heat oven to moderate heat [400f / 200C / Gas mark 6]
3. Brush the sweet potato with 1/2 of the melted coconut oil
4. Place sweet potato on a baking dish, lined with baking paper.  Bake until tender (about 50 minutes).
5. Make a slit along the length and across the middle, add the remaining coconut oil and add seasoning to taste.
6. Remove the fleshy part of the sweet potato with a spoon, and serve.

Flesh removed...

Sweet potato used as a side with sweet peppers and beef strips

 

Article originally appeared on Eat for Health, Move for Life : The Paleo Lifestyle (http://www.thefitnessexplorer.com/).