Easy Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potatoes
These Easy Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potatoes are tender, fluffy, creamy, and so good. They make a delicious and nutritious side dish for just about any dinner, or you can enjoy them stuffed with your favorite toppings!
Servings: 2 to 4
Estimated Calories: 205
Ingredients
- 2 to 4 (8-ounce each) sweet potatoes, scrubbed clean and dried
- toppings of your choice, such as butter, salt, pepper, cinnamon, brown sugar, etc.
Instructions
- Pierce each sweet potato with a fork several times (this allows steam to escape so the sweet potatoes don't explode in your air fryer).
- Preheat the air fryer to 400°F (if your air fryer doesn't preheat, go to the next step).
- Place the sweet potatoes in a single layer in the air fryer basket, making sure to leave space between each one for proper air circulation.
- Cook for 30 to 40 minutes or until the potatoes are cooked through, flipping them over halfway through the cooking time (start checking them at 30 minutes). The sweet potatoes are done when you can easily pierce them with a knife or fork and they give when you squeeze them.
- Serve immediately. Slice the potatoes open, fluff up the inside with a fork, and enjoy plain or with your favorite toppings.
Recipe Notes
- Use sweet potatoes that are all roughly the same size and shape so that they cook evenly and all get done at the same time. For a side dish, I like to use small sweet potatoes that are about 8 ounces each.
- If you want to make smaller or larger sweet potatoes, decrease or increase the cooking time accordingly.
- Longer, thinner sweet potatoes tend to cook quicker than more round ones.
- The size of your air fryer will determine how many sweet potatoes you can cook at one time. I can easily fit up to 4 sweet potatoes in my 6-quart air fryer that has a square basket. A smaller air fryer might fit only 2.
- Store leftover baked sweet potatoes in the refrigerator, covered, for 3 to 4 days.
- Estimated calories are for one baked sweet potato only and do not include butter or any other toppings.
Tried this recipe? I'd love to see it!Take a photo, post it on Instagram, and mention @nowcookthis or tag #nowcookthisrecipes. Thanks!