Maple Pecan Roasted Sweet Potato Slices

Roasted Sweet Potato Slices are the perfect side dish for Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday meals, or for everyday dinners during the fall and winter months. The sweet maple pecan topping makes these completely irresistible!

Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite side dishes – no matter if they’re prepared as Honey Butter Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Maple Walnut Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes, or roasted like in this recipe here.

We especially enjoy this recipe for holiday dinners, but it’s also great when you need an easy side everyone will eat on a regular weeknight.

How to Make Roasted Sweet Potato Slices

Read on for the detailed step-by-step ingredients and instructions, or scroll down for tips and the printable recipe card.

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Ingredients for Maple Pecan Roasted Sweet Potato Slices

This is an incredibly easy recipe with just a handful of ingredients – and almost all of them are pantry staples!

You Need:

FOR THE SWEET POTATOES

• 2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced into 1/2″ rounds

• 2 tablespoons melted butter

• salt & pepper, to taste

FOR THE TOPPING

• 1/4 cup maple syrup

• 1 tablespoon light brown sugar

• 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Ingredient Swaps

• skip the brown sugar to make it entirely naturally sweetened – it will be a little less caramelized but still divine

• you can use something like coconut oil in place of the butter to make this dairy-free and vegan

• use walnuts in place of the pecans if you don’t have those on hand

Equipment Needed to Make Roasted Sweet Potato Slices

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You need the following equipment ready

• a knife and chopping board
• a vegetable peeler
• a baking sheet (cleanup is easier if you line it with aluminum foil – I almost never use aluminum foil, but I do for this recipe because things get really sticky)
• a small bowl and a spoon
• your oven!

Steps

These roasted sweet potato slices are so easy to make, there’s no excuse not to whip them up!

1 – Roast the potatoes:

Preheat the oven to 500°F (yes, five-hundred, trust me).

Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil if you like easy cleanups.

2 – Season the potatoes:

Add the sweet potato rounds to the prepared baking sheet and toss them with melted butter, salt and pepper.

3 – Roast the potatoes

Roast the potatoes for 15-20 minutes, or until the bottoms are golden brown.

Combine all ingredients for the topping, then flip the sweet potato slices and evenly divide the topping over them.

Finish roasting for 5-10 minutes, or until the maple syrup is bubbly.

Can this dish be made ahead?

I know we want to make all the things ahead for holiday meals, but I don’t recommend making these too far out – they do taste best hot out of the oven.

You can prep all the ingredients a day ahead though – slice up the sweet potatoes and keep them in an airtight container covered with first a layer of damp paper towels and then the lid tightly secured.

Chop the pecans and combine the maple syrup and brown sugar in a small jar with a lid (do not mix the pecans and maple syrup yet, or the nuts will turn very soft).

What to serve with these maple pecan roasted sweet potato slices:

In a classic holiday meal, you’ll probably have allll the side dishes (stuffing! mashed potatoes! Roasted Brussels sprouts! green beans! stuffed acorn squash!) – but if you want to make these for a regular dinner, here’s what we like to serve them with:

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