Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potatoes get nice and crispy. Plus, you don’t have to start the oven just to bake a few potatoes.
Baked sweet potatoes are delicious and they taste amazing, plus they’re so nutritious. They’re the perfect side with our Basic Baked Chicken Thighs.
Best of all, you can have potatoes with perfectly crispy skin baked right in your Air Fryer. This keeps the oven free for your entrée or allows you to skip turning it on.
Scroll down to read more about how it all comes together or click here to jump straight down to the recipe.
Do You Really Need To Pierce Potatoes Before Cooking?
To make the most delicious air fried sweet potatoes, first you need to wash them very well. Then, pierce them with fork all over. This will shorten the time of cooking and it will also prevent them from potentially bursting while they cook. No one wants to clean up that mess!
After that, using your hands or a brush, lightly coat each sweet potato with olive oil then season with salt.
How To Make Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes
Place sweet potatoes in the air fryer basket or on a rack if you have an air fryer oven. We like this air fryer.
The potatoes usually take 45-50 minutes to cook but cook time may vary depending on the size of your sweet potatoes. I can fit 2-4 sweet potatoes in mine. You don’t need to increase the cook time if you’re cooking more than two, but make sure they have a little room between them.
How To Get Crispy Potato Skin
The circulating air of the air fryer works together with the oil on the outside of the potato to cook the skin to a nice crisp. Be sure to flip the potatoes over halfway through cooking to ensure a nice even crisp on all sides.
How Do You Know Your Sweet Potatoes Are Done?
Simply insert a toothpick or fork into the center of the potato to check if it’s soft inside. When the potato is cooked through there will be no resistance and it will feel soft.
From there you can eat it as a side like a baked potato with butter on top, or cut it up to top a delicious Sweet Potato Salad.
More Air Fryer Vegetables
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Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potatoes get nice and crispy. Plus, you don’t have to start the oven just to bake a few potatoes.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 55 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Air Fryer
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 2 large sweet potatoes
- 2 tsp. olive oil
- 1/2 tsp. salt
Instructions
- Pierce sweet potatoes with fork several times, all over.
- Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt.
- Place sweet potatoes in air fryer basket, set the temperature to 400°F, and bake for 40-50 minutes. After 20 – 25 minutes flip the potatoes so the skin on both sides gets crispy.
- If your potatoes are very large you may need to cook them few minutes longer.
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This post originally appeared in January 2021 and was revised and republished in July 2024.
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