Side dishes can sometimes get lost in the shuffle of a meal. We want something tasty to accompany our main dish, be it meat, tofu, pasta, or fish. My baked skillet sweet potatoes will not be a backup singer, an extra who just walks by in the background. These baked sweet potatoes, covered in a parsley garlic sauce? A definite co-star. So bake up some chicken, grill a piece of fish, and whip this up in less than 30 minutes, start to finish. You will be happy to have these bad boys starring in your dinner premiere.
Baked skillet sweet potatoes
Author: bakesinslippers
side dish or main dish, you are going to want to dive in
Ingredients
- 4 sweet potatoes, washed, peeled and cut into medium thick slices
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 2 T olive oil
- 1 T minced garlic
- 1 T chopped parsley
- ½ tsp orange zest
- 2 T olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a cast iron skillet with lightly greased parchment paper or grease a small baking dish
- Combine sweet potatoes, salt, pepper, and olive oil in a bowl and toss together. Place in cast iron skillet or baking dish and cook uncovered for 20-25 minutes or until potatoes are soft and tender
- Combine garlic, parsley, other 2 T of olive oil and orange zest in a small bowl and top over warm sweet potatoes. Serve and enjoy!
- If any leftovers, place in a food safe container in fridge for up to three days
My hubbie loves sweet potatoes I have never pan fried them for him so I will have to try
Yummmm. Sweet potatoes are one of my faves! I could eat this as a meal!
Those look pretty good, and nice and simply. Definitely something you can throw together quick!
I eat a lot of sweet potatoes. It has really helped my eyesight. I am thrilled with this recipe! Thanks!
These looks absolutely delicious. Thanks for sharing!
Such an easy dish to make! And, I’m always looking for new and different side dishes!
This looks so good! Everyone loves sweet potatoes!
They look delicious!
I would definitely make these - we love sweet potatoes!
These look lovely, ought to try it:)
These sound so good! I will definitely be trying them. I recently found out that I enjoy sweet potatoes. I hated them growing up
Yum! These sound delicious! Are they gluten free?
it’s just sweet potatoes, olive oil, salt/pepper, parsley, orange zest and garlic so unless any of those have gluten it should be
I don’t have an iron skillet, but my hubby sure does love sweet potatoes.
I love that this is so simple to make. It sounds like a delicious side.
These sound great! I”d make them the star of dinner!
I Loved potatoes, and this is looks delicious. I will going to try this on our BBQ Party.
enjoy!
I’m so going to make this!
These look fantastic. I will try them for sure!
I’ve done sweet potatos on a skillet plenty of times, but yours sounds so good.
I need to get a cast iron skillet.
It’s definitely worth it, a cast iron skillet. And they are reasonably priced. I recommend the Lodge brand.
My family loves sweet potatoes-they look so good!
Yum I love sweet potatoes! This looks exceptional
These look like they’d taste really good with ketchup!
I didn’t discover sweet potatoes till I was an adult. I have never looked back! Like you, Janelle, I love them sliced up in a skillet. This is a great and easy way to enjoy such a good-for-you veggie.
This looks like a tasty and easy meal to make. I am just learning to cook so I love easy and tasty. Thank you for sharing.
I like sweet potato’s better then regular ones.. this type of recipe would give it a nice and different taste.
What a great alternative for making sweet potatoes! Thanks for sharing!
Ooohhhh they sound amazing. I can imagine that the orange zest really adds to the amazing sweet potato flavor! Pinned it!
Ooh these look divine! I’m a huge fan of sweet potatoes and would love to have these on my dinner table.
I love sweet potatoes and it’s also popular here. This one looks really tasty.
I have got to try this out!! Sounds delicious!
Sweet potatoes are so good and good for you I’m glad you featured them the recipe looks yummy
This looks amazing and i have always wondered what else i could do with my dear sweet potato that no one likes in my house lol
These look great-I pinned your post!
Looks delicious - sweet potatoes are awesome!
Very simple recipe and sweet potatoes are so cheap here so this will be a great side dish or snack for us this weekend.
Thick-sliced sweet taters? Yes please, it sounds wonderful!
Will serve this dish to my family.. Good thing there is sweet potato in the Philippines.
I love sweet potatoes! This looks yummy. Thanks for sharing!
Looks delicious. I’m always looking for new ways to cook sweet potatoes.
I chuckled when you said back up singer. You are funny but also a great cook because this potato looks delicious.
oh thank you!
That looks delicious!
Trying this!! I LOVE me some sweet potatoes!!
I love sweet potatoes. This is an awesome way to cook them and I know I will try this. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
This is very similar to the sweet potato fries I make. YUM!
This looks really good. I tried a similar recipe to this once and the taste was great. I can’t wait to try and make these myself.
Made this for dinner tonight along side some roasted broccoli/cauliflower and steak. It was delish! I omitted the orange zest as I did not have. Definitely will make again!
glad you liked it!
I really want to try this out! Going to get some sweet potatoes ASAP!
I have never had my sweet potatoes cooked like this, this looks great. I bet its yummy!
Oh yum, I’m super in love with sweet potatoes but I’ve never actually made them myself. I always eat them at a restaurant or my moms or grandmas house.
Dang, you have a lot of comments! Phew! I LOVE skillet potatoes! Never thought of yams in the skillet! (Although I’ve chopped and placed in cookie sheet in oven) Yummy! Awesome photo by the way!
That looks so good. i love sweet potatoes.
Love sweet potatoes & they look delicious cooked that way.
Sweet potatoes are my all time favorite! I haven’t tried to baked them in the skillet before but will give this recipe a try!
I’m always looking for sweet potato dishes for Thanksgiving…pinning this one! YUUUUUM!
I really love sweet potatoes. I never do them in wedges like these so I’m going to try your recipe.
This looks simple and delicious. Love that you included orange zest- I bet that really brightens it up! Yummy!
Thank you!