Roasted Sweet Potatoes

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2 lbs sweet potatoes, cut into 1-inch cubes

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon kosher salt

2 tablespoons pure maple syrup

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Chopped candied pecans or candied walnuts, for garnish, optional

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Cut your sweet potatoes into 1-inch pieces, making sure they are the same size so they cook evenly!

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and and line a sheet pan with parchment paper or aluminum foil. This will make your cleanup SO MUCH easier. Grease the pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Place the sweet potatoes on the pan. Don’t crowd the pan. It’s better to use two pans than to have one pan that’s totally crowded with sweet potatoes!

Drizzle the sweet potatoes with olive oil and toss until everything is well coated. Sprinkle salt over the sweet potatoes and toss it in the oven for 20 minutes!

In a small bowl, mix together the maple and cinnamon. I like to use a fork to stir them together.

After 20 minutes, pull the sweet potatoes out and drizzle the maple and cinnamon mixture on top, stirring so everything gets nicely coated. Adding the maple syrup and cinnamon mixture halfway through the baking time prevents it from burning since the maple will cook a lot faster than the sweet potatoes.

Adding the maple/cinnamon mixture is also the perfect time to give the potatoes a stir. This is another way to make sure they’re cooking evenly!

You’ll want them to cook for 5 to 10 more minutes. Check it after 5 minutes, just to be safe. We don’t want the sweet potatoes to get burnt and every oven is different.

Pull the sweet potatoes out of the oven, place on a serving dish or platter, and top with candied walnutsor pecans, if desired. I love the added crunch from the sweet nuts, but they are good plain too!