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microwave sweet potatoes

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Recipe by
Linda Faye Lober
@Linda_Lober
Pittsburg, MO

Who has time to candy and bake and peel sweet potatoes! After my niece brought half cooked sweet potatoes to a family dinner, I learned this trick! You can nuke them and they taste just a well as if you cooked them for an hour and a half. Salvaged them and now this is the way Thanksgiving goes in the microwave.

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yield 4 -6 people
prep time 10 Min
cook time 10 Min
method Microwave

Ingredients For microwave sweet potatoes

  • 4-6 sm
    sweet potatoes

How To Make microwave sweet potatoes

  • 1
    Wash sweet potatoes and pierce top side with fork, allows steam to escape and not explode in microwave.
  • 2
    IMPORTANT on a microwave safe dish (Nordic ware) align 6 sweet potatoes. there needs to be a 2 inch space between them
  • 3
    Cook 10-12 minutes, or hit the baked potato setting. Potato is done when you can insert fork in and goes through to the other side.
  • 4
    Remove potatoes, cut in half and garnish as desired. Brown sugar, pecans, butter, whip cream, marshmallows. Your choice. You can even cut them up and put in a casserole dish to make your favorite sweet potato recipe. Just gives you a head start on the cooking time!
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