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Sweet Potatoes Sautéed with Honey

Sweet Potatoes Sautéed with Honey: a sourced camp stove recipe with measured ingredients and cooking instructions. Pack a cooler for perishables.

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Added October 9, 2026
Source: Recipe: Wikibooks contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); extracted from linked revision; camping suitability and safety notes added. Photo: Alikiiaa, CC0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sweet_Potato_Sauteed_With_Honey.jpg; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en. Photo illustrates this dish on its source recipe page; not a Wild10 cooking-test photo.
Sweet Potatoes Sautéed with Honey

Photo: Alikiiaa · CC0. Source-recipe food photograph; not a Wild10 cooking-test photo.

Serves: 1
Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients

  • •1 medium sweet potato
  • •1 tbsp (14.3 g ) honey
  • •½ tsp (2.5 g) salt
  • •¼ tsp (1.25 g) smoked paprika (optional)
  • •1 tsp (5 g) flavorless oil (such as canola oil )
  • •½ tbsp (7.15 g) unsalted butter

Instructions

  1. 1Peel the sweet potato, then chop it into 1 cm (0.4 in ) cubes. The pieces of sweet potato don't need to be exactly 1 cm on each side, but they should all be around that size to ensure even cooking. Discard the peel.
  2. 2Heat a large frying pan on a stovetop burner over medium heat.
  3. 3Mix the honey, salt, and paprika together in a small bowl.
  4. 4Add the butter and oil to the pan, then wait for the butter to melt fully.
  5. 5Add the potatoes to the pan and stir until evenly distributed around the pan. There shouldn't be any sweet potato chunks on top of each other.
  6. 6Pour the honey mixture over the potatoes and stir until it's evenly distributed across all of the potato pieces.
  7. 7Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring the sweet potatoes every other minute. It's important to stir the potato pieces in order to prevent them from burning on one side, but stirring them too frequently won't allow them to brown sufficiently, which is why it's important to stir once every 2 minutes or so.
  8. 8Serve topped with extra salt to your liking and enjoy!

Camp tips

  • • If using salted butter instead of unsalted butter, just add a bit less salt in with the honey.
  • • Both orange and white sweet potatoes work well with this recipe—the image is of white sweet potatoes, so it may look a bit different using the orange variety.
  • • For a sweeter version, use more honey.
  • • The calories are calculated with canola oil and a 130 g sweet potato. The exact calorie count may vary based on the oil used or the size and variety of sweet potato.
  • • Keep perishables at 40°F (4°C) or below in a monitored cooler. Discard food left above that temperature for over 2 hours, or 1 hour above 90°F (32°C). Use potable water, wash hands, and pack out scraps. Never cook inside a tent. Check local fire restrictions.

Food safety & trail facts

Keep perishables at 40°F (4°C) or below in a monitored cooler. Discard food left above that temperature for over 2 hours, or 1 hour above 90°F (32°C). Use potable water, wash hands, and pack out scraps. Never cook inside a tent. Check local fire restrictions.

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