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Give Sweet Potatoes An Extra Hit Of Flavor With This Baking Staple By Haley McNamara Nov. 18, 2025 4:00 pm EST

This unexpected and underrated baking staple addition to sweet potatoes can give them extra flavor, and no, we're not talking cinnamon or brown sugar. There's a new complementary pairing in town for this tuber vegetable: vanilla. Whether you use vanilla extract (like Ina Garten's go-to store-bought vanilla extract ), vanilla bean paste, or a fresh vanilla bean pod with the seeds scraped out, the flavor works beautifully. And while vanilla is often associated with sweets, this doesn't automatically mean adding it to sweet potatoes will make them taste like dessert; it works for savory sweet potatoes too. Whether a dish is sweet or savory, vanilla per

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