Salted Maple Smashed Sweet Potatoes

Smashed flat, broiled until crispy, and drizzled with a sweet and salty maple sauce, these maple smashed sweet potatoes are the easiest side dish!

Easiest-ever holiday side dish incoming! Sweet potatoes all dressed up in their Sunday best and deceptively the most simple side dish you’ll ever make this holiday season.

Basically all we’re doing here today is roasting sweet potato slices until tender, smashing them flat, giving them a quick broil until crispy, and topping them with obscene amounts of salted maple butter sauce.

Like I said, simple as heck but an absolutely next-level side dish. Definitely one of those dishes you accidentally eat half a sheet pan of cause these suckers are ADDICTING.

Good thing it’ll only take you a few minutes to make another batch! Whether you serve these crispy sweet potato bites as a side dish alongside a roast tenderloin or ham, or on their own as an appetizer you’ll have happy guests either way.

These Smashed Sweet Potatoes feature…

• A perfect thin and crispy texture
• Sweet and salty maple butter sauce drizzled all over
• Fragrant fresh rosemary and toasted pecans
• Ready in minutes with only 6 ingredients

Making the Smashed Sweet Potatoes

(scroll down to the bottom of the post for the full recipe)

Ingredients You Will Need

• Sweet potatoes
• Unsalted butter
• Maple syrup
• Salt
• Rosemary
• Pecans

Choosing Your Sweet Potatoes

Medium-sized long sweet potatoes work best for this recipe. Ideally, you want sweet potato slices that are about 1-2 inches in diameter because this size cooks up crispy.

To prep the sweet potatoes for roasting, leave the skin on, trim ends, and slice sweet potatoes into 1/4-inch thick rounds. Arrange them in a single layer on a greased sheet pan and they’re ready for roasting.

Tips for Perfect Smashed Sweet Potatoes

1. Slice sweet potatoes 1/4 inch thick – I found that this thickness was perfect for roasting the sweet potatoes prior to smashing them.
2. Roast sweet potatoes with half of maple sauce – roasting the sweet potatoes with half the sauce builds flavor and the other half is amazing drizzled on top of sweet potatoes once they’re broiled.
3. Smash sweet potatoes with drinking glass – once the sweet potatoes are tender, remove them from the oven and gently smash them flat. The flatter you can get them, the crispier they will be! I find that the bottom of a drinking glass works best for this job.
4. Broil sweet potatoes – 3-5 minutes under the broiler will crisp up the sweet potatoes perfectly.

Recipe Variations

Try these ideas for a different twist on these sweet potatoes.

• Use a different sweetener – try honey, agave nectar, or brown sugar in place of the maple syrup.
• Try another fresh herb – thyme or parsley would be great.
• Skip the nuts or use another kind – you can skip the nuts entirely or use walnuts, almonds, or pine nuts in place of the pecans.

It’s the salted maple sauce that really takes all the flavors in these sweet potatoes to the next level! Sweet + salty always wins and it just works in these crispy sweet potatoes.

Forget about sweet potato casserole, these smashed sweet potatoes are where the real action is at.

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Try these other sweet potato side dishes next!

• Spicy Sweet Potato Fries
• Maple Rosemary Roasted Sweet Potatoes
• Warm Sweet Potato Salad with Bacon Dressing