26 Simple Sweet Potato Recipes (2024)

Sweet potatoes are one of the most delicious, comforting, and easy-to-use fall and winter ingredients — sweet and savory, they're versatile, to boot. Sometimes, there's nothing cozier than a simple baked sweet potato, piping hot out of the oven. For an easy weeknight dinner side dish, it's hard to beat the savory-sweet creaminess of mashed sweet potatoes. Here are our favorite sweet potato recipes for more inspiration — try a sweet potato gratin, sweet potato-coconut soup, and our best sweet potato pie to start.

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Roasted Hot Honey Sweet Potato Salad

This sweet potato salad makes a colorful, satisfying side dish. Seasoning the potatoes with smoked paprika creates a sweet and savory balance while the hot honey dressing adds a touch of tangy heat. Homemade pickled red onions, crunchy toasted pecans, and fresh parsley round the dish out.

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Candied Sweet Potato Pancakes

This quick-fix recipe is the ideal breakfast for the morning after Thanksgiving — or any time you have leftover candied sweet potatoes on hand. The addition of mashed sweet potatoes gives the pancakes a beautiful color and keeps them extra moist and tender. Since the potatoes are already sweetened, 2020 F&W Best New Chef Douglass Williams cuts back the amount of brown sugar in the batter and plays up the warming cinnamon and clove.

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Smoky Sweet Potatoes with Chorizo Butter

Smoky and spicy, cured Spanish chorizo infuses melted butter with its rich color and flavor, balancing the natural sweetness of these tender roasted sweet potatoes. Scoring baked sweet potatoes and then broiling them gives them a hint of smoke and lets the chorizo butter soak into every bite.

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Spiced Sweet Potato Tater Tots

These homemade tater tots are easy to make. Simply par-boil the potato, then grate it and mix it with spices including cumin and smoked paprika.

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Lamb, Sweet Potato, and Coconut Mafé Curry

Perfectly tender lamb shoulder and creamy sweet potatoes balanced by floral coriander, warming turmeric and cumin, and piquant ginger and ground mustard make this West African curry a cozy delight. Fonio is a tiny grain that packs a nutritional punch and provides the perfect base for soaking up the flavorful curry sauce.

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Sweet Potato Honey Beer Pie

The different components of this pie can be prepared on different days. Here's a suggested order of steps you might find useful. Day 1: Roast sweet potatoes, reduce the beer, and prepare the pie crust, but don't blind (partially) bake yet. Day 2: Blind bake the pie crust, prepare the sweet potato custard, and bake the pie.

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Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potato Hand Pies

Made with baker Lisa Ludwinski's Sister Pie All-Butter Pie Dough, the golden, crispy pastry encasing these savory hand pies shatters almost like a croissant. Lightly mashed sweet potatoes, brussels sprouts, tangy sour cream, and aged cheddar make up the creamy, cheesy filling.

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Sheet-Pan Tofu with Broccolini, Mushrooms, and Sweet Potatoes

A citrus-soy marinade adds zing to crisp roasted tofu in this easy sheet-pan dinner. Spreading the tofu and vegetables across two baking sheets ensures that they roast, rather than steam, in the oven. For the crispiest tofu and tender vegetables, space the ingredients evenly so hot air can circulate among them.

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Curry Chicken and Sweet Potato Galette

Chef Alexander Hardy infuses flavor into each layer of this golden galette. The crust, seasoned with turmeric and garlic, surrounds a savory blend of green seasoning–spiked chicken thighs, roasted sweet potatoes, and sweet mixed bell peppers. Choose jarred sofrito for a shortcut, or make the piquant, herbal green seasoning from scratch.

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Sweet Potato Gyoza with Beet Puree

Sweet potato and hazelnut butter make up the filling for these inventive and satisfying gyoza.

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Sweet Potato Cheesecake Empanadas

Puerto Rico and the American South intersect deliciously in this unique dessert empanada from Boricua Soul in Durham, North Carolina, which combines the flavors of marshmallow-topped sweet potato casserole with spiced pumpkin cheesecake, encasing it all in caramel-drizzled, crisp pastry.

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Sweet Potato, Balsamic Onion, and Soppressata Pizza

Soppressata tops this clever prebaked-crust pizza, along with mashed sweet potatoes, caramelized onion, and mozzarella cheese. Enjoy it with a juicy, medium-bodied Pinot Noir.

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Cinnamon-Spiced Candied Sweet Potatoes

Inspired by camotes enmielados — a sweet and syrupy Mexican dessert often served in honor of Día de los Muertos — these spiced sweet potatoes are the perfect stand-in for candied yams with toasted marshmallows.

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Sweet Potato–Coconut Soup with Thai Curry

A trio of coconut — coconut oil, coconut milk, and toasted coconut flakes — makes its way into this fragrant and lovely twist on a classic soup from cookbook author Melissa Clark.

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Sweet Potato and Feta Bourekas

Bourekas are crisp, savory little parcels filled with anything from vegetables and cheese to ground meat. Inspired by his grandmother's recipe, chef Michael Solomonov's version is stuffed with sweet potato, Bulgarian feta, dill, and olives.

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Oxtail and White Sweet Potato Stew

A red wine braise, complete with other mulling ingredients like fresh orange and whole spices, makes the oxtails in this stew fall-apart tender and flavorful.

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Sweet Potato Gratin with Chile-Spiced Pecans

Chef Jose Garces says this dish best exemplifies his Thanksgiving menu: traditional at its core but with unexpected Latin accents. The gratin is silky and sweet, topped with gooey marshmallows and delightfully crunchy pecans flavored with chile powder.

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Curried Shrimp and Sweet Potato Stir-Fry

This easy shrimp stir-fry garnished with peanuts and herbs comes together in less than 20 minutes and tastes delicious over simple jasmine rice.

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Sweet Potato, Chipotle, and Apple Soup

This silky soup gets its smoky sweetness from pureed chipotle peppers, a Mexican staple, and the surprising addition of apples. It's served in shallow bowls and garnished with fried tortilla strips for crunch.

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Sweet Potato Hummus

Roasted sweet potato adds just a hint of sweetness to regular hummus. For a touch of heat and flavor complexity, blend in the optional cayenne pepper. This hummus keeps in the fridge for up to a month, so it's easy to keep on hand for all your dipping and spreading needs.

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Chicken, Sweet Potato, and Rice Casserole

The rice in this hearty casserole filling is cooked until it starts to fall apart, thickening the liquid. A generous amount of cheddar cheese and panko breadcrumbs make for a gloriously browned top.

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Sweet Potatoes with Apple Butter

Pro tip: Mash the sweet potatoes with a potato masher until creamy, then mash in the butter and apple butter. Season with a dash of salt and serve.

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Sweet Potato Meringue Pie

This dessert from 2000 F&W Best New Chef Andrew Carmellini looks like a pumpkin pie, but the filling is actually made with sweet potato. It sits on a spiced graham cracker-pecan crust and is topped with billowy meringue instead of the typical whipped cream.

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Sweet Potato Spoon Bread

Spoon bread, a cross between corn bread and soufflé, is a Southern classic. Chef Robert Stehling likes to add cooked spinach or fresh corn and chopped, sautéed bacon or ham to his plain sweet potato version.

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Vanilla Bean-Whipped Sweet Potatoes

The late New York chef Gerry Hayden created this flavorful side dish, a combination of creamy pureed sweet potatoes and fragrant vanilla.

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Maple-Baked Sweet Potatoes

Parboiling the sweet potatoes shortens the baking time and keeps them moist. Once tender, they can be broiled briefly to achieve a browned top.

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