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Healthy Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

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Healthy Hasselback Sweet Potatoes: Roasted sweet potatoes are baked with a fancy streusel of maple, coconut oil and pecans, for an elegant and easy side dish. 

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Aw, for the love of sweet potatoes.

I am a bit obsessed don’t you think? I have sweet potato pancakes, sweet potato chili, sweet potato nachos, sweet potato burritos, sweet potato egg boats, and a sweet potato quiche–just to name a few!

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You need to  check out all my Easy Sweet Potato Recipes!

But how can you blame me?

Sweet potatoes can be used in sweet or savory preparations and are full of fiber and vitamin A. Plus they just taste good.

Today, I am sharing with you one of the EASIEST, not to mention tastiest, sweet potato side dish.

Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

Have you seen Hasselback Russet Potatoes?

Sliced pototates that melted butter, cheese and seasonings are poured over the top and baked into the potato itself?

Well let me introdcue you to the Sweet Potato version of Hasselback potatoes.

Tray of Paleo Baked Sweet Potatoes with Cinnamon Maple Glaze and Toasted Nuts

How to Make Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

  1. Slice about 10 slits into sweet potatoes 3/4 of the way through. Use dowels or wooden spoon handles on either side of your sweet potato so you don’t cut through the sweet potato, when cutting the slits.
  2. Drizzle with melted coconut oil, cinnamon, salt, maple syrup, and chopped pecans.

Steps to making Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

 

Tips on Paleo Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

  • If you aren’t paleo or dairy-free, you can use melted butter instead of melted coconut oil.
  • You can also use any nuts you like for these Baked Streusel Topped Sweet Potatoes–I personally like pecans or walnuts.
  • I like to use 2 chopsticks or 2 wooden spoons to place on either side of the sweet potato when slicing, to ensure I don’t slice all the way through.
  • It is best to use a pastry brush to get the glaze inside the slits of the sweet potato.
  • It is important to par-bake the sweet potatoes, before slicing. This way the potato will dry out (plus it is easier to slice.)
  • You can “par-bake” these sweet potatoes in the instant pot by cooking large sweet potatoes for 10 minutes on High Pressure in the Instant Pot, instead of baking them in the oven.

More Sweet Potato Recipes

Hasselback Sweet Potato Recipe

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Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

Baked sweet potatoes fanned out and drizzled with a gluten free streusel. 

Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 233 kcal

Ingredients

  • 4 medium sweet potatoes scrubbed
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil melted
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. Roast potatoes for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and slit 8-10 slits across the potato-- 3/4 of the way through the flesh of the potato and slightly fan out.

  3. Mix together spices, syrup and oil and pour over each potato--being sure to get into the slits of the potatoes. Sprinkle with chopped nuts. 

  4. Return to the oven and bake for an additional 20-25 minutes, or until potatoes are fork tender.

Nutrition Facts
Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 233 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10g 15%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Sodium 653mg 27%
Potassium 482mg 14%
Total Carbohydrates 33g 11%
Dietary Fiber 4g 16%
Sugars 11g
Protein 2g 4%
Vitamin A 368.9%
Vitamin C 3.8%
Calcium 5.5%
Iron 5.2%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

 

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  7. I totally share your love for sweet potatoes. And your preparation looks so simple and absolutely delicious! We are in Thailand currently, where they only seem to have the purple version. I’ll still have to give this a try.

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    • Regina, sweet potatoes are the best. I love purple sweet potatoes as well. You could probably go savory or sweet with those! Let me know if you try it! And enjoy the gorgeous senery where you are!

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    • Oh Jane, I am sorry you are the only one in your house that likes sweet potatoes–but I think that you can enjoy these for lunch with a salad and treat yourself–you deserve it!

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  12. I’m also obsessed with sweet potatoes! Potatoes of any kind, really, but I do really love sweet potatoes. So much flavor! And then you bake them like this, with all that streusel topping goodness? YUM! (Yumming now, too.) Sounds delicious!

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  13. I have SO MANY sweet potatoes right now. They CSA bin brings more every week. I love this idea for serving them. It’s simple and quick. I was running out of ways to use them up.

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