Easy baked Mediterranean sweet potatoes

Many think that sweet potatoes are a food for the poor, but they are healthy, and taste really good when properly baked. Baked sweet potatoes are the easiest of recipes.

Preheat the oven.

Take one medium sweet potato for each person and rinse them thoroughly.

Prick them with a fork in six or seven different places and put them on a baking dish.

Place the baking dish as near as possible to the heat source. After half an hour turn them over. After another half an hour the sweet potatoes are done.

This sweet potato recipe couldn't be easier. Your active cooking time is less than five minutes, and you can go about your daily activities while the sweet potatoes are baking in the oven.

Once the sweet potatoes are done, peel them and serve them. You can also cut them in half unpeeled and eat them with a teaspoon.

This is a most simple Mediterranean food recipe. Here I regularly publish simple and more elaborate Mediterranean recipes with pictures.

Sweet potatoes contain almost as much beta-carotene as carrots, vitamins A, C, and some of the B group. They also have iron and potassium.

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