Honey-Roasted Sweet Potatoes — 🍯🍠😋 You can’t go wrong with warm sweet potatoes that are soft and tender in the middle and lightly crisped and caramelized on the outside! The simple honey-cinnamon dip is and creamy, loaded with flavor!
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Honey on Sweet Potatoes? Yes!
Some people would call this a side dish. I call it a meal. And one of my favorites.
You can’t go wrong with warm sweet potatoes that are soft and tender in the middle and lightly crisped and caramelized on the outside. I roasted them with a marinade of honey, coconut oil, and cinnamon. It’s a heavenly-scented combo.
I can eat a tray full of these potatoes on their own but with the cinnamon dipping sauce, they’re totally irresistible. It’s a simple combo of Greek yogurt (or sour cream), honey, and cinnamon, and it’s so creamy and loaded with flavor.
The honey and cinnamon in the dip help accentuate the honey and cinnamon on the potatoes. Can you tell how much I love these ingredients? It’s also a great dip for apples, most any fruit, or crackers. I want the dip on everything.
As much as I love the potatoes, I’d be happy with just a spoon and the dip.
Ingredients for Honey Roasted Sweet Potatoes
To make these roasted honey cinnamon sweet potatoes, you’ll need the following basic ingredients:
Sweet Potatoes
- Sweet potatoes
- Honey
- Coconut oil – Please note that the roasted diced sweet potatoes don’t taste overtly coconutty. Rather, coconut oil adds a nearly imperceptible undertone that’s sweeter and more fragrant than canola or vegetable oil, but you can substitute with them if you’d like
- Ground cinnamon – I wanted the cinnamon flavor to shine on its own, but adding pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, ginger, or allspice in addition to the cinnamon would be lovely
- Salt and pepper
Cinnamon Dipping Sauce
- Greek yogurt
- Honey – If honey isn’t your favorite or you’d like to keep these roasted sweet potato chunks vegan, you can likely use pure maple syrup in place of the honey
- Ground cinnamon
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make This Honey Roasted Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Making cinnamon and honey glazed sweet potatoes is so quick and easy! Here are the basic recipe steps:
- Preheat your oven, and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat mat.
- Peel and dice the sweet potatoes. Then, add them to a gallon-sized Ziploc bag.
- To the potatoes, add the honey, melted coconut oil, cinnamon, salt, and pepper, and toss to coat.
- Transfer the potatoes to the prepared baking sheet, and roast until tender.
- While the potatoes roast, quickly whisk together the cinnamon dipping sauce in a small bowl! Serve warm, and enjoy!
What to Serve with Oven Roasted Honey Sweet Potatoes
Recipe FAQs
These roasted honey sweet potatoes need to cook at 400F for roughly 20 to 25 minutes. The exact cooking time will vary based on the size of the potato pieces and your oven.
I prefer the flavor and texture of peeled sweet potatoes. So, I always peel mine. However, you can leave the skin on if desired. Just make sure to scrub the potatoes under running water before dicing them.
These honey roasted sweet potatoes are best warm and fresh, but leftovers can be reheated in a skillet over medium heat or in the oven.
Yes! You can make a batch of the cinnamon dipping sauce for the sweet potatoes and store it in the fridge for up to a week.
This recipe is best served right away, but you can store leftover potatoes in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-5 days. Reheat the potatoes in the microwave, oven, or air fryer when you’re ready to eat. Just be sure to keep a close eye on them so they don’t burn
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Honey-Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Honey-Cinnamon Dip
Equipment
- 1 Large Baking Tray
- 1 Sealable Bag
- 1 Small Bowl
Ingredients
Sweet Potatoes
- 2 large or 3 medium/large sweet potatoes, technically I used red yams, washed, peeled, and trimmed into 1-inch chunks
- 3 to 4 tablespoons honey
- 3 to 4 tablespoons coconut oil in liquid state, or another oil, i.e. olive, vegetable, canola
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon, or to taste
- pinch salt and pepper, optional and to taste
- pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, ginger, allspice; all optional and to taste
Honey-Cinnamon Dip
- ⅓ cup plain or vanilla Greek yogurt or sour cream, light versions okay
- 2 to 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon, or to taste
Instructions
Sweet potatoes:
- Preheat oven to 400F. Line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray; set aside.
- Slice potatoes into 1-inch chunks and put into a gallon-sized Ziplock.
- Open bag and add honey, oil, cinnamon, optional salt and pepper to taste, optional seasonings to taste, seal bag, and toss potatoes to coat. Really manipulate the potatoes around inside the bag, pushing the ones on the top to the bottom and vice versa, to equally distribute the honey, oil, and spices.
- Using your hands, transfer potatoes to baking tray, arranged in a single flat layer and not touching, if possible. *(see note)
- Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes, remove from oven, and flip potatoes over using tongs.
- If desired and if there’s extra marinade, lightly and evenly drizzle potatoes with what remains from Ziplock bag.
- Return tray to oven and bake for about 15 to 20 more minutes, or until fork-tender and done. Keep a close eye on potatoes in the final moments of baking so they don’t burn. Baking times will vary based on oven variances, the potatoes and how thick they’re cut, how full the tray is, and how well done you like them.
- Optionally (but recommended) serve potatoes with dip or your favorite condiments as soon as they’re cool enough to eat.
- While potatoes finish baking, make the dip.
Honey-Cinnamon Dip:
- Add all dip ingredients to a small bowl and whisk until smooth and combined. Transfer to ramekin if desired for serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I could eat sweet potatoes everyday! Love them roasted! Your dip sounds absolutely heavenly! Pinned!
Thanks for pinning, Anna!
Great idea – never thought of using a sweeter flavor on the sweet (!!!) potatoes. Oh and your related recipes are making me drool!
Thanks for noticing them!
I love sweet potatoes and will try this recipe with coconut oil. They look delicious! (Having a weird obsession to mix sweet and salty I often add feta cheese to mine). I agree these can be called a meal.
Salty-and-sweet is always so good!
LOVE these sp.’s Averie! And with a dip?! Even better!!
You have a million sweet potato (and blueberry) recipes that I want to try! :)
Sweet potato is my current favourite, I’m not keen on normal potatoes at all! These sound so amazing; the combo of the fluffy sweet potato with the honey dip sounds incredible, pinned :P
Thanks for pinning!
I feel ya, sister. Fall vegetables are hands down my favorite. Just last night boyfriend and I roasted two full racks of sweet potatoes, parsnips, onions, carrots, russet potatoes, zucchini, and more!
Those two racks sound like a perfect dinner for me! LOVE them all!
Wow, these look like the ultimate sweet potatoes, Averie!I love the added touch of honey, and the dip sounds incredible! Can’t wait to try these babies out! Pinned!
Averie, omg YUM PINNED! I love sweet potatoes but you just made them taste a million times better ;-) totally going to try this!
Thanks for pinning!
Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite meals as well! This looks so yummy!!
I love everything about this! I love sweet potatoes almost as much as pumpkin. Almost. I made a sweet dipping sauce for sweet potatoes fries a few months ago and I’ve been hooked on that concept since. This dish looks fantastic! Will definitely try. Thank you!!
Glad you’re a fan of dips, too!
I am all about everything sweet potatoes right now and that honey cinnamon dip is just stunning! I love this recipe! Pinned :) Hope you had a great weekend Averie!
Thanks for pinning and I hope you had a nice weekend, too! We’re having a HEAT wave and it’s 92F and I’ve been baking all weekend, no a/c …fun :)
I could get away with calling this a meal too. Love sweet potatoes and roasting them just brings out all the wonderfulness.
Have a great start to the week Averie!
I must say this combination intruiges me, because I love every component separated, but I have never tried them together. It must be really good!
These look great! I’d definitely eat a (giant!) bowl of these as a meal :D
Averie, I agree this is a perfect meal…The potatoes alone look delicious but with that dip forget about it….so good…I’m getting sweet potatoes tomorrow in my CSA so this recipe comes at a perfect time…can’t wait to try.
Oh yay! LMK how you like it! That’s awesome you get sweet potatoes in your CSA!
Cinnamon is my favorite seasoning for sweet potatoes, winter squash and plain Greek yogurt. I finished off my leftover delicata with the same dip yesterday. I’ll have to try it with sweet potatoes! Amazon sent a notice letting me know I should receive your cookbook next week!!
It’s crazy. I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW. The author is the last to know, I swear. Another friend told me that she got the notice. And I was like…what??? The original date was Oct 6 so this is quite early!
These potatoes and dip are right up your alley, too!