Air Fryer Sweet Potato Cubes

While I love Air-Fryer Baked Sweet Potatoes and Air Fryer Sweet Potato Wedges, there is a faster way to enjoy sweet potatoes in the air fryer.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Cutting the sweet potato into cubes is a real game-changer for many reasons.

Faster to air fry Super crispy Sweet as they caramelized on the sides Easy finger foods for kids

Ingredients and Substitutions

It’s super easy to make cubes of sweet potatoes in the air fryer with minimal ingredients. Plus, you can play with spices to create a range of flavors, so feel free to swap some of the below to use your favorite dried spices.

Red-Skinned Sweet Potatoes – This variety of sweet potatoes is sweet and caramelized in the air fryer compared to purple-skin ones. So while you can absolutely use this air fryer sweet potato recipe for other sweet potato varieties, I tend to prefer the orange flesh sweet potatoes. Olive Oil or avocado oil. Paprika or Cayenne Pepper. Garlic Powder – or fresh crushed garlic. Cumin – for flavor Onion Powder – for flavor.

How To Make Air Fryer Sweet Potato Cubes

This is the most important part of this recipe. To make the best cubes of sweet potato in the air fryer, I recommend two main things:

Peeling The Skin – While the skin of sweet potatoes contains many nutrients, it doesn’t give the best texture to air-fried sweet potato cubes, especially if you have picky eaters. They won’t like the skin because it won’t crisp as much as in an air fryer potato wedge. Cutting Into 1/2-Inch Cubes or so but not too small or the flesh of the cubes dry out so much that the cubes end up ’empty’ and dry.

Serving

Roasted Sweet Potatoes are the perfect side dish to any meal. Serve the warm sweet potato cubes with a:

Pinch of salt Extra ground black pepper for a stronger taste Fresh chopped herbs like chopped parsley or scallion.

You can serve these sweet potato cubes as a side dish or light dinner or on a salad like in a quinoa spinach salad. If you are air frying a large batch, or your basket can’t handle all the cubes at once in a single layer, I recommend:

Preheating the oven to 300°F (150°C). Placing the air-fried cubes in an oven-safe baking pan. Keeping them in the oven until the remaining cubes are air fried.

Sweet potato cubes are delicious dipped in sauce like:

Cucumber Dip Tomato Sauce Aioli

Storage Instructions

Once roasted, these air fryer sweet potato cubes can be stored in the fridge in an airtight container for up to one week. Rewarm them in the air fryer for a couple of minutes or on a hot frying pan. You can also freeze leftovers and keep them in the freezer in a sealed box for up to two months. Below are your most frequent questions about this recipe: