Sometimes the easiest things are the best, and that is definitely true for these caramelized sweet potatoes! This recipe is a healthy way to enjoy sweet potatoes, and because it’s a baked sweet potato recipe you don’t even have to babysit it! What could be easier? Of course, it’s also true that while something can be easy as pie (or easy as sweet potatoes, in this case, even easier than pie!), if you don’t know about it, it doesn’t matter how easy it is. And that’s why we have written this up for you! And check it out, if you have a Costco nearby you can get 6 1/2 pounds of organic sweet potatoes for $10!

Here are the things that you will need for this super easy, super yummy recipe: a sweet potato (or sweet potatoes, plural, if that suits your need), vegan butter or margarine, and a heavy pan that heats evenly and can go in the oven (we’ll show you what we use, below). That’s it!

A word about the pan that we use for this recipe

We received a Le Creuset enameled cast iron oval gratin pan as a gift 43 years ago! That thing still looks like new, it’s amazing! Unfortunately, Le Creuset no longer makes this pan in cast iron, only in stoneware, which just isn’t the same at all.

This pan is 43 years old! Look how great it looks!

However, fortunately, this pan is also awesome, and a great price, so if you don’t have a heavy, enameled cast iron pan for general use, check it out – it would work perfectly for this recipe, and so much more!

This Bruntmore enameled cast iron pan will work too!

In terms of what vegan butter or margarine you use, that’s up to you. We usually have Earth Balance in the house, but when we want to get fancy we use Miyoko’s vegan butter. Here’s the recipe!

Super-Easy Vegan Oven-Roasted Caramelized Sweet Potatoes