Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potato (2024)

BY: Courtney PUBLISHED: Jul 19, 2017 37 Comments UPDATED ON: Sep 29, 2018

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Our Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potato recipe results in a sweet potato baked to perfection!

The bestAir Fryer Baked Sweet Potato ever!!

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I’m potato obsessed! I could eat potatoes with every meal if that was a healthy option just to eat potatoes, ALL DAY EVERYDAY!

My husband and our daughter also share a love for potatoes, so we have our fair share of them throughout the week. We love ourAir Fryer Baked Potato, but thisAir Fryer Baked Sweet Potato recipe is just as good!

The inside becomes almost creamy, and it’s naturally sweet. I just sprinkle a little bit of salt on my baked sweet potato, and I’m ready to dig in! For a special treat, we like to put a bit of butter and parsley too. My husband will even sprinkle a little maple syrup or honey onto his.

An air fryer helps you bake a sweet potato without much effort.

As soon as you cut it open it is already easy enough to eat with your fork or even a spoon. I like to give it a little mash just so that the salt can get intomore of the potato. Oh man, so good!

Look at these sweet beauties ready to be turned into the best bakedsweet potato you’ll ever eat!

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Avalon Bay AirFryer with Rapid Air Circulation Technology, Large 3.2L Capacity, Temperature up to 400 Degrees, Oil-Less Healthy Air Fryer, Black, AB-Airfryer100BWhy should you get an air fryer?

If you want really crispy stuff without frying this air fryer is excellent! Fries are crispy, our potatoes are crispy on the outside and perfectly fluffy on the inside.

I will say that this is definitely NOT a deep fryer. Think of it more like a convection oven. You can even bake in your air fryer! 🙂

At first, I used it thinking I could fry anything that I would typically fry likezeppolesbut in all honesty, I didn’t like it because I was approaching it the wrong way. I was trying to make deep fried desserts, and the Air Fryer isn’t made to do that.

It helps make some fried foods that you’d usually enjoy a much healthier option by using an air oven.

You can cook without any added oil, and it’s oil free cooking unless you’re making our baked potatoes. We think the oil really helps the skin crisp up so we like to use just a little.

We love sweet potatoes and this Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potato recipe is a KEEPER!

Air Fryer Sweet Potato

Our Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potato recipe results in a sweet potato baked to perfection!The bestAir Fryer Baked Sweet Potato ever!!

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Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 3

Calories: 153kcal

Ingredients

3 sweet potatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
1-2 teaspoons kosher salt

Instructions

Wash your sweet potatoes and then create air holes with a fork in the potatoes.
Sprinkle them with the olive oil & salt, then rub evenly on the potatoes.
Once the potatoes are coated place them into the basket for the Air Fryer and place into the machine.
Cook your potatoes at 392 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until fork tender.
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helen mott
July 24, 2017 at 9:19 pm

please give us more air fryer recipes.
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- Courtney Lopez
  July 28, 2017 at 10:58 pm
  
  will do! we love our air fryer! 🙂
Kathleen Garrett
July 31, 2017 at 7:33 am

A sweet potato is great and good for you my rheumatologist reminds that for
ME yummy
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- Courtney Lopez
  February 10, 2018 at 12:57 pm
  
  That is so good to hear, enjoy! 🙂
Debbie
January 23, 2018 at 8:44 pm

Thanks!! Turned out perfect!! No more microwaved sweet potatoes for me!! I did cook it the entire 40 minutes. I like mine super soft.
More recipes please!!
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- Courtney Lopez
  January 26, 2018 at 7:25 pm
  
  So glad you enjoyed it! It’s really the best baked sweet potato we’ve ever had too! 🙂
Theresa Cubbin
February 10, 2018 at 8:52 am

I just bought the air fryer oven, it is different , it doesn’t come with a basket . Can you post some air fryer OVEN recipes please.
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- Courtney Lopez
  February 10, 2018 at 12:56 pm
  
  Hi, Theresa!
  We’re adding more recipes using our Cuisinart Air Fryer oven! 🙂
- Brenda Jones
  May 11, 2018 at 8:19 am
  
  Check out the Videos on You tube. They are very good, I’ve learned a lot looking at them. I love my air fryer, it’s just me, so I bought the Dash it’s a smaller version.
Mary Evans
February 26, 2018 at 7:56 pm

Can you tell me what brand of Air Fryer you have pictured? What is the size / capacity?
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- Courtney Lopez
  March 01, 2018 at 2:28 pm
  
  Hi Mary! I currently have the Avalon Bay Air Fryer which is a 3.7qt. It’s on the smaller side and we’re currently looking into getting a bigger one. It was perfect for our family of 3 when my daughter was younger, but now that she’s eating more we’re looking to upgrade.
Karen Bona
November 06, 2018 at 9:16 am

Just tried this recipe last night. I had smaller potatoes so baked one small one for less time, maybe 24 minutes? It was so wonderfully dreamily soft inside and the skin tasted excellent too. Truly a perfect sweet potato!! Thx!!!!!
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- Courtney Lopez
  November 24, 2018 at 7:29 am
  
  So glad you enjoyed!
Dan Coan
January 05, 2019 at 5:21 pm

I just bought an air fryer. I tried to make fresh french fries and fresh sweet potato fries, followed the recipe in booklet that came with machine. All came out dry and tasteless. what did I do wrong.?
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- Courtney Lopez
  January 08, 2019 at 9:14 am
  
  Hi Dan,
  So sorry that happened to you! We don’t have any air fryer french fries on the site yet. We’re going to be sharing FLAVORFUL air fryer french fry recipes next week – stay tuned! 🙂
Jenna
February 25, 2019 at 6:27 pm

Excellent recipe! I was a little skeptica because halfway through cooking time they were still pretty hard but they were perfection after 35-40mins. Also, halfway through I put some foil over the top as they were getting brown. T
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- Courtney Lopez
  February 26, 2019 at 12:00 am
  
  So glad you enjoyed! Great tip with the foil, some air fryers do get pretty hot and can brown things a bit more than others. 🙂
Audrey Donner
April 03, 2019 at 8:22 am

Thank you for this simple, yet amazing recipe: whole food, plant based yumminess!!!!
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- Courtney Lopez
  April 03, 2019 at 7:11 pm
  
  You’re so welcome!! 😀
Kelly Soriano
May 14, 2019 at 7:09 pm

Great Sweet Potato! This was so easy and delicious! My family loved it as much as I did.
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- Courtney Lopez
  May 18, 2019 at 9:31 pm
  
  Thank you! So glad you and your family enjoyed!! 😀
Kathy Lane
July 29, 2019 at 3:12 pm

I did this and my sweet potatoes were awesome!!!!
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- Courtney Lopez
  July 30, 2019 at 10:11 am
  
  Yay! So glad you enjoyed 😀
Laurie
September 27, 2019 at 3:43 pm

These were delicious and easy to prepare. Will definitely cook the sweet potatoes this way in the future.
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Lisa
December 04, 2019 at 7:02 pm

I’ve made this recipe over and over. It’s perfect. Thank you!
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- Courtney Lopez
  December 05, 2019 at 1:56 pm
  
  Ahh, thank you!! And you’re so welcome! Glad you love it just as much as we too!
BJ
August 06, 2020 at 7:27 pm

I tried this recipe for 1 sweet potato using my Gourmia air fryer. I was working so didn’t check on it and it burnt up the outside while the inside was still very firm. I’m not sure how to adjust this for my air fryer for next time. Any advice would be appreciated.
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- Courtney Lopez
  August 09, 2020 at 2:09 pm
  
  How large was your sweet potato? As you can see ours aren’t too large. Whenever they’re REALLY big I’ll cut them down a bit so they will cook quicker. 🙂
- Kathy K
  April 20, 2023 at 8:37 am
  
  Wrap sweet potato with aluminum foil~~
Josephine B
February 10, 2021 at 8:50 pm

Hi Courtney, I live in Sydney – Australia and just bought an Air-Fryer yesterday. I made “Baked Sweet Potato” last night just to test out my new fryer. Boy! was it ever tasty, When served up we drizzled it with quite a bit of butter then sprinkled it with cinnamon. Absolutely YUMMO! Thank you for my first introduction to Air-Fry cooking.
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- Courtney
  March 11, 2021 at 5:37 pm
  
  We are so glad you enjoyed it! What a delicious way to serve it up, yum! 😀
Michele
April 10, 2021 at 11:16 pm

Do I use the bake setting or air fryer setting?
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- Courtney
  April 17, 2021 at 9:07 am
  
  Air fry setting 🙂
Ruth ann Lavin
April 23, 2021 at 10:30 am

I’ve made your sweet potatoes in my air fryer ever since I first saw your recipe. They are so good. Thank you
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Pat
May 25, 2023 at 5:17 pm

Perfect sweet potato
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Dawn
September 09, 2023 at 6:07 pm

The only way I cook Sweet Potatoes now! Perfectly soft and full and flavor.
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- Courtney
  September 23, 2023 at 11:58 am
  
  We’re so glad you enjoyed!!