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These stunning Hasselback Sweet Potatoes make a delicious holiday or everyday side dish with a sweet and savory honey butter sauce that gets into every nook and cranny. It’s an easy recipe that elevates your basic baked sweet potatoes into something extra special, but they are still super simple to prepare.
Why You’ll Love These Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
Delicious Details
- Cuisine Inspiration: American
- Primary Cooking Method: Oven
- Dietary Info: Gluten-free, Dairy-free option
- Skill Level: Easy
Whether you enjoy sweet potato dishes regularly or think they deserve a special place on a holiday table, then I have something totally new for you to try. If you’re a fan of regular baked sweet potatoes, this is a must-try twist for Thanksgiving, the holidays, or any weeknight. Not to mention it’s a crowd-pleasing gluten-free and vegetarian side dish!
This easy hasselback sweet potato recipe produces potatoes are But it’s those hasselback slices that makes them extra-special. Here’s why…
- Incredible texture. Hasselbacking the potatoes expands the surface area for a perfectly fluffy and tender inside with a crispy crust on the top. What could be better than that?
- Absolutely gorgeous. As the potatoes cook, the slices start to fan out, giving them an impressive appearance.
- Utterly mouthwatering. You also end up with nooks and crannies that allow the sweet and savory honey butter to seep in for the tastiest sweet potatoes yet.
Ingredients and Substitutions
Here’s an overview of what you need to make this sweet potato recipe. The full amounts and detailed instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Sweet Potatoes
- Butter. Use unsalted butter. Vegan butter is fine to substitute.
- Honey. Maple syrup will also work.
- Fresh thyme. Feel free to try other herbs, like parsley, marjoram, or sage.
- Salt and pepper
How to Make Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
Once you’ve practiced how to slice hasselback sweet potatoes, this recipe is a quick and simple process. Most of the time is hands-off, as the potatoes roast in the oven until they’re soft and fluffy on the inside with a crisp, golden top.
Here is an overview of the steps to making the best sweet potatoes with honey-butter glaze. You’ll find the step-by-step instructions in the recipe card further down in the post.
- Prepare for baking: Preheat the oven to 425°F. Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment and grease with nonstick spray.
- Prepare the potatoes: Slice the sweet potatoes into 1/8-inch slices widthwise, stopping 1/2 inch from the bottom of the potato so you don’t cut all the way through. This creates a fan-like design on the top of each potato.
- Make the honey butter: Melt the butter, and add the honey, thyme, salt and pepper.
- Bake: Brush the potatoes with half of the honey butter. Make sure to get all over the sides and into the slices. Bake the sweet potatoes for 30 minutes. Remove them from the oven and carefully fan out the slices. Brush the potatoes with the remaining honey butter.
- Finish baking: Return the potatoes to the oven and bake for another 20 to 30 minutes, until the inside is soft and the edges are crispy.
- Serve: Remove the cooked sweet potatoes from the oven. Brush them with any remaining honey butter and serve warm. Enjoy!
Tips for Success
Before you get started, here are a few helpful tips for this recipe to make sure that your hasselback potatoes come out beautifully:
- When slicing the potatoes, place a chopstick on either side of the potato. This will prevent your knife from cutting all the way through.
- The potatoes are done cooking when you can easily pierce them with a knife and theyre cispy on the tops.
- Rotate the pan in the oven halfawy through cooking. This ensures that your poatoes cook evenly, in case your oven has hot and cold spots.
- Use a low-sided baking sheet for the crispiest potatoes. A deep baking dish will trap moisture inside that can prevent the crevaces and tops of your potatoes from getting crispy and toasted.
- Keep the skin on your potatoes. It’s full of nutrients and helps them hold their shape while baking.
FAQs
Hasselback is a term for potatoes, or any vegetable, sliced into a fan-like shape. Hasselback is made by slicing a vegetable, usually a potato or sweet potatoes, into thin slices, but not going all the way through. The slices remain attached, but the top of the potato opens up like a fan. This offers plenty of space to add seasonings like the honey butter sauce in this recipe.
You can make hasselback potatoes as an appetizer with baby potatoes, or as a side dish with larger potatoes.
Absolutely! With one simple ingredient swap you can make these totally dairy free. Instead of regular butter, use your favorite plant-based option, whether it’s dairy free butter or melted coconut oil. And for strict vegan, use maple syrup instead of honey. The rest of the recipe steps and ingredients remain the same.
Yes, using ghee or clarified butter or even coconut oil makes these paleo-friendly. Just be sure to use raw honey or pure maple syrup.
Proper Storage
- Refrigerate – Store leftover sweet potatoes in an airtight container in the fridge for up to four days.
- Reheat – Warm the sweet potatoes in a 350°F oven for 10-15 minutes, until warmed through.
- Make-ahead – You can make the sweet potatoes a day or two in advance. keep them in an airtight container. then reheat the sweet potatoes in a 350°F oven until heated through. these are best served warm.
Make it a Meal
While these would be especially good with a Thanksgiving roast turkey or your Christmas glazed ham, they also are perfect with many weeknight meals! My family loves when I serve hasselback sweet potatoes with these meals:
- Chicken dinner. While the potatoes bake, I have time to make Easy Honey Mustard Chicken Bites and a side of Skillet Bacon Green Beans.
- Autumn pork. Get the fall flavors going with Apple Pork Chops paired with Parmesan Roasted Brussels Sprouts.
- Chili night. I do like the balance of sweet and savory by spooning some of The Best Beef Chili Recipe over the sweet potatoes.
- Salad for dinner. Round out the meal when you serve an entree salad like this Grilled Steak Salad.
- Seafood night. Broiled Salmon with Sesame Maple Glaze pairs well with these potatoes and some Sesame Glazed Broccoli.
Honey Butter Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 4 medium sweet potatoes
- 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
- Wash and dry potatoes thoroughly. Make a series of 1/8 inch slices along the top of each potato, stopping ½ inch from the bottom, taking care not to slice all the way through the potatoes. Place the potatoes on the prepared baking sheet.
- In a small bowl, combine the melted butter, honey, thyme, salt, and pepper. Using just half of the honey butter mixture, brush the potatoes all over the sides and in between the slices.
- Bake sweet potatoes for 30 minutes then remove from oven. Gently fan out the slices a bit. Rewarm the butter, if necessary, to melt it, then brush all of the remaining honeybutter all over sweet potatoes,including in between slices.
- Return to the oven and continue baking until the potatoes are tenderon the inside and crispy on the outside, about 20- 30 minutes.
- Brush sweet potatoes with any of the butter that has accumulated at the bottom of the pan and serve them right away
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