Oven Baked Sweet Potato Toast 4 Ways

A simple, healthy breakfast — made easy in the oven! Sweet Potato Toast is a delicious base for both savory and sweet toppings depending on your personal preferences. Adding a quick pre-bake in the oven makes this recipe friendly for serving multiple people or meal prepping. AND it’s naturally gluten-free, grain-free, Paleo + Whole30 compatible!

This post was originally published on May 16, 2017, and updated on March 21st, 2021. 

Sweet Potato Toast — one of the internet’s favorite grain-free breakfast hacks.

Sweet Potato Toast. Also known as your new breakfast obsession.

Before we jump right into what sweet potato toast is and how to make it using our meal prep-friendly oven-baked method, let’s talk a bit about where sweet potato toast (or SPT for those in the know) originated from.

As early as 2015 Kendra over at Paleo Paparazzi has been sharing her oven broiled SPT method on Instagram and her blog. The idea is simple, slabs of raw sweet potato are baked or broiled until tender on the inside and crispy on the outside then immediately topped with all sorts of toppings.

In our Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Toast, you par-bake several slices at once then store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to use. Then you simply pop a few slices into the toaster (yes, a toaster) or toaster oven and ‘cook’ until they’re warm and crisped up on the edges before topping any way you choose. Here we show you how to make the sweet potato toasts themselves and share 4 ways to top them.

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Ingredients for Sweet Potato Toast (and 4 Ways to Top It!)

The base of this “toast” couldn’t be more simple: it’s just one ingredient! 

• Sweet Potatoes – choose a large sweet potato or yam (whichever’s on sale). Look for ones that are relatively tube-shaped so they’re easier to slice.

Then the fun part: TOPPINGS! Click to jump to each recipe within this post. 

• Smoked Salmon Everything ‘Bagel’ Sweet Potato Toast
• The ‘Elvis 2.0’ Sweet Potato Toast
• ‘South of the Border’ Sweet Potato Toast
• ‘Blueberry Pie’ Sweet Potato Toast

How to Cut Potatoes for Sweet Potato Toast

• Scrub the sweet potatoes under running water, pat them dry and trim the ends off with a sharp knife. A chef knife works best here.
  • A word about chef’s knives: A good one is an investment but worth every penny. We recommend this 8-inch chef knife from Zwilling for its excellent quality and the way it feels in hand.
• Note: We don’t remove the skin because fiber is good and I find that it helps the slices hold up better during storage.
• Slice the potatoes lengthwise to create toast slices that are about 1/4 inch thick. You can use a big knife or a mandolin slicer.

How to Make Sweet Potato Toast:

1. Arrange the slices on a wire rack set on a large baking sheet.
2. Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for 15-25 minutes or until potatoes are tender but not cooked all the way through.
3. Once they’re tender but not cooked all the way through, remove the pan from the oven.
4. Allow the slices to cool completely before storing them in a lidded container in the fridge.

When you’re ready to eat, simply add the desired number of slices to the toaster or toaster oven and toast away. We set ours on the highest setting and it takes only one toasting cycle to get them how we like them (warm, bubbly, and crispy on the edges) – but yours may need more or less depending on your toaster.

Now the fun starts. You get to add toppings! The possibilities are pretty much endless but these four are my absolute faves for breakfast.

Smoked Salmon ‘Everything Bagel’ Sweet Potato Toast Recipe

Ingredients:

• Smoked salmon (Vital Choice is made without sugar)
• Avocado (smashed)
• Red Onion
• Capers
• ‘Everything But the Bagel’ Seasoning (optional but awesome!) 

Admittedly, this is my numero uno fave when it comes to SPT. Everything bagels with lox, cream cheese, red onion, and capers (and tomatoes when they’re in season) are the things my dreams are made of – and they’re the inspiration for this Whole30-friendly version that finds itself on my plate at least twice a week.

In the photo we used cold-smoked nova lox with does have brown sugar in the brine – a Whole30 no-no. So if you want to keep this compliant you’ll need to use a no-sugar smoked salmon like this one from Vital Choice foods. Under the salmon there’s smashed avo then it’s topped with thinly sliced red onion a few capers and his life-changing ‘Everything But the Bagel’ seasoning from Trader Joe’s.

The ‘Elvis 2.0’ Sweet Potato Toast Recipe

Ingredients:

• Cashew butter (or almond butter)
• Sliced banana
• Crumbled crisp-cooked bacon

Because peanut butter isn’t Whole30-compliant we’ve swapped cashew butter for peanut butter in this SPT that we’ve affectionately dubbed the ‘Elvis 2.0′ – an homage to the hip-shakin’ rock-n-roller’s purportedly favorite Peanut Butter, Banana, and Bacon sandwiches.

What makes it 2.0 is the cashew butter that stands in for the PB – which you then top with thinly sliced bananas and a liberal sprinkle of crisp-cooked bacon.

‘South of the Border’ Sweet Potato Toast Recipe

Ingredients:

• Sliced or mashed avocado (or leftover homemade guacamole)
• Thinly sliced radishes
• Crushed red pepper flakes or hot sauce
• Lime wedges

If you love Mexican-inspired food as much as we do, then you’re going to love this veggie-packed number with creamy avocado, crisp radishes for a little bite, red chili flakes or hot sauce for heat, and fresh lime juice for a little zing.

‘Blueberry Pie’ Sweet Potato Toast Recipe

Ingredients:

• Almond butter (or cashew butter)
• Fresh blueberries (or frozen and thawed blueberries)
• Ground cinnamon

In case you’re wondering how to choose when there are so. many. great. options for toppings, we’ve got a little tip for you:

Make yourself 2-3 slices of sweet potato toast with a mixture of savory and sweet. The order you choose to enjoy them is entirely up to you. Sometimes we like to start with the sweet one the finish it off with the savory option but the other way around is great, too. There’s no right or wrong here…only delicious!

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Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Toast 4 Ways

If you’ve been missing toast because you’ve given up grains – Sweet Potato Toast is the answer to your breakfast prayers! In this recipe you par-bake the slabs of sweet potato to so all they need is a quick trip through the toaster or toaster oven before they’re ready to top will all the toppings you please.

• Author: The Real Food Dietitians
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins
• Total Time: 30 mins
• Yield: 4-5 1x
• Cuisine: Whole30, Paleo, Grain-free, Dairy-free

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Ingredients

• 1 large sweet potato, washed and dried

Toppings:

• Avocado, peeled and thinly sliced or mashed
• Smoked salmon (Vital Choice is made without sugar)
• Red onion, thinly sliced
• Capers, drained
• ‘Everything But the Bagel’ Seasoning (optional but awesome!)
• Radishes, thinly sliced
• Crushed red pepper flakes or Hot sauce of choice
• Lime wedges
• Cashew butter (may substitute peanut butter if not for Whole30)
• Almond butter
• Banana, sliced
• Crumbled crisp-cooked bacon
• Fresh or frozen (thawed and drained) blueberries
• Ground cinnamon

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350℉.
2. Place a wire rack on a large rimmed baking sheet.
3. Trim both ends from the sweet potato using a knife.
4. Slice sweet potato lengthwise into 1/4-inch thick slabs using a knife or mandolin slicer.
5. Arrange slabs in a single layer on the wire rack.
6. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are tender but not fully cooked (watch to be sure they don’t burn!)
7. Remove pan from oven and allow potatoes to cool on a wire rack completely before transferring to a lidded container storage container. Store in the fridge for up to 4 days.

To make Sweet Potato Toast

1. Place the desired number of sweet potato slices into a toaster or toaster oven. Toast until hot and edges are crispy. The amount of time required will depend on your toaster.

Notes

Nutrition information will vary depending on the amounts and types of toppings you choose. We recommend using a free online calculator such as My Fitness Pal to calculate the nutrition information for your sweet potato toast if needed.

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