Have you heard about this weird yet amazing thing called sweet potato toast?

It’s easy to get behind the idea of eating sweet potatoes (or yams) in place of, say, a sandwich: unlike most bread, sweet potatoes are gluten-free, high-fiber, and packed with healthy micronutrients.

To turn a sweet potato into a bread-like shape, you have to slice it. (No need to peel though.) Getting nice, even lengthwise slices of sweet potato can be a little tricky, so do yourself and your fingers a favour and take a slice off one side of your potato and rest it, flat side–down, on the cutting board while you cut the rest of it into 1/4-inch slices. Try to keep your slices as even as possible—too thin and they won’t hold their shape; too fat and they’ll take too long to cook.

To “toast” the slices, you can pop them into the slots of a standard toaster or set them up in a toaster oven. Either way, crank it up to the highest setting and keep toasting until the surface of each slice is beginning to brown and the inside is tender when pierced with a fork. Depending on the strength of your toaster, it’ll take about 15 minutes per batch of sweet potato toast.