How to Cut Sweet Potates

A cutting board with sweet potatoes cut 4 different ways: wedges, slices, sticks, and cubes.

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This quick and easy tutuorial will walk you through How to Cut Sweet Potatoes 4 different ways into slices, wedges, sticks & cubes. Learning to cut sweet potatoes is a great way to improve your knife skills and make so many recipes!

Course Tutorial

Cuisine Ingredient

Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Servings potato

Calories 194kcal

Author Yumna Jawad

Equipment

Ingredients

1 large sweet potato

Instructions

Wash and dry potatoes before starting. Peel the potatoes, if desired.
Cut the potato in desired shapes.

Wedges

Using a sharp knife, cut the potato in half lengthwise. Place the cut side down on the cutting board and cut in half lengthwise. Cut each quarter in half again, and you should have 8 wedges.

Slices

Using a sharp knife, start at the root of the potato and carefully make slice to your desired thickness. Continue until you reach the other end of the potato.

Sticks

Using a sharp knife, make a thin slice lengthwise so the potato can be flipped to sit flat on the cutting board. Once on this flat side make slices lengthwise to your desired thickness.
Stack the slices together and cut lengthwise again to make long sticks.

Cubes

Start by cutting potato sticks, then make perpendicular cuts all across to create the dices.

Video

Notes

Tip: Use a sharp knife to cut your sweet potatoes. A dull knife not only makes it more difficult, but it increases the risk of injury.

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