Make room on your holiday table for these sweet and savory smashed sweet potatoes. These smashed sweet potatoes with bacon and herbs are tender on the inside and crispy on the edges, they’re the perfect side dish to serve aside your Thanksgiving turkey.
Over the summer we planted a bunch of sweet potato slips. I had never grown sweet potatoes before, but they were so easy and rewarding to grow that I know they’ll be a staple in my summer garden from now on.
Fast forward roughly 140ish days…
Harvest Day


Using the potato fork and my hands, it was really like digging for treasure.
Well, edible treasure. 🙂
After they were all dug up, I set them up in a cool dark spot to cure for a few weeks, and now they’re ready to use. Just in time for Thanksgiving!
Confession: I’m not a huge sweet potato fan.
That’s why I mainly grew white sweet potatoes this year. They’re not quite as sweet and have a bit more starchier texture like a regular potato.
I wanted to try to cook them a bunch of different ways to see if there’s a way I’d enjoy eating them. And sweet potatoes with bacon….because everything is better with bacon. 😉
So I came up with this super easy smashed potato dish, and honestly, I really loved them!

The hardest part of this recipe is slicing them evenly. Well and cleaning off the dirt if you grew them yourself like I did.
I cut off the ends and then sliced them into about 1/2 inch thickness.
Scroll down for the complete recipe…
Slathered them with a dollop of butter and salt and pepper.

Baked them in the oven until they were fork tender, smashed them and then whipped up a topping of maple syrup, bacon, sage, and rosemary.
YUM.

These smashed sweet potatoes with bacon and herbs couldn’t be more simple or delicious, and has all the favorite flavors of the season.
PrintMaple Butter Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Bacon and Herbs
Description
Move over plain ol’ sweet potatoes! These sweet and savory smashed sweet potatoes are the perfect side dish for any holiday spread! Smokey bacon, sweet maple syrup, butter and herbs turn this into an A+ treat!
Ingredients
- 3–4 large sweet potatoes sliced into 1/2 inch thickness
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 4 thick cut bacon slices
- 1 tablespoon fresh sage
- 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Potatoes- preheat oven to 400
- Clean potatoes with a scrubber and cut ends off. Slice into 1/2 inch thickness.
- Give each potato slice a pat of butter and season with salt and pepper.
- Bake at 400 for about 20-25 minutes or until fork tender.
Topping-
- In a small cast iron pan, add diced bacon and render fat until bacon is crispy.
- Add in fresh herbs, and maple syrup and stir together until well mixed.
Remove the potatoes from the oven and smash them with your fork.
Add a generous spoonful of the maple bacon and herb mixture on top of each.
Place the potato slices back into the oven and broil for a few more minutes to crisp up the edges.
Notes
*You can adapt this recipe to your flavor liking by changing up the herbs.
Enjoy!

So good! I hope you’ll try these maple butter smashed sweet potatoes with bacon and herbs this holiday season…
…or really any day for that matter.
Talk to you soon!
XO
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