Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes
It’s the weekend… even better it’s a LONG weekend! I love time spent at home with family & friends, and that is exactly how I plan on spending my time. I can’t believe I’m already 37 weeks, and Hazel will be making an appearance shortly. What does that mean? Well it means that I want to spend as much time with the girls & Clint before the crazy, no sleep days are upon us. It’s crazy how fast time flies!
Today I want to share an absolute fantastic recipe that everyone here loved… and Clint wished I had made more! This vegetarian main or side dish can easily be made vegan by removing the cheese, and ta da! Easy to adapt for anyone 🙂 Plus this encompasses all of my favourite flavours: tex-mex style. All of those classic flavours easily mixed into the sweet potato and baked twice with a kick of jalapeño cheddar cheese… what can I say… simply DELICIOUS!
- •2 medium/large sweet potatoes
- •1/2 medium sized white onion
- •2 garlic cloves
- •splash of olive oil
- •2 tsp cumin
- •3 tbsp cilantro
- •1/4 cup black beans
- •1/4 cup corn
- •juice of one lime
- •salt & pepper to taste
- •1/2 cup jalapeño cheddar cheese, shredded
- Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees. Bake your sweet potatoes for about 45 minutes, or until cooked all the way through.
- Once cooked, remove from oven and let cool to the touch. Slice lengthwise and scoop out potato into a bowl.
- Sauté onions and garlic in a little olive oils until translucent. Add to the potato mixture.
- Add the cumin, cilantro, lime juice, black beans & corn. Stir until mixed well. Divide into four and add back into the potato skins.
- Divide the cheese onto all four potatoes (if you’re using… if you notice one has none – that’s mine since I’m dairy-free!) Bake at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes until the cheese is golden and bubbly!
- To kick these up a notch, I topped everyone else’s with sour cream, sliced avocado and more cilantro
This was a fantastic recipe and I loved that it was a twist on the classic twice-baked potato. Plus all of the tex-mex inspired flavours meant a huge success for me! I have to say that although mine didn’t have any cheese, I still didn’t feel like I missed out on anything.
How can you not want to bite into these? Serve them for lunch or dinner… stand alone or as a side dish! I loved how filling these were, and my girls ate every last bite. They were fairly simple to make, which means you could easily have little sous-chefs in the kitchen helping you on these ones. I feel like after making these, I have more inspiration for other great potato ideas… and trust me, they are coming!!
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I love baked sweet potatoes! I usually do sweet fillings but this sounds great…I definitely am going to try them. 🙂
I have never thought about making this with Sweet Potatoes. Looks amazing!!
I never thought of twice baking SWEET potatoes!! How Yummy!!! I’m pinning!
I’ve made twice baked potatoes, but haven’t tried to use a sweet potato. I love the flavors you’ve chosen for this. Pinning!
This looks like a great dish! My parents are vegetarian, and would love this. Thanks for sharing
Your sweet potatoes look amazing! I would have never thought about cooking them like that. I always add marshmallows, pecans, and brown sugar to mine. I’ll have to try your recipe!
these look SO good, and with the avocado, I can easily do without the cheese!
what a delicious meatless meal! we love baked potatoes
I love stuffed sweet potatoes! So good.
This looks like something that is so versatile! Great for picnics, dinner, or when you need something satisfying! Love the kick of spiciness (and the cilantro)! BTW, Love the name Hazel – so sweet!
Thanks! She was actually born Saturday Aug 29th! A week old already… Crazy how fast time flies!
I love sweet potatoes, but you totally got me with those big slabs of avocado across the top – yum!
Oh, delicious!! I love the stuffing, and that avocado on top.. Yummy!
Sue these look positively yummy! Thanks for sharing on #justanotherlinky xx
I love sweet potatoes and love the idea of avocado and beans to ante up the flavor. Delicious!
I love this recipe twist and the Mexican spices are a perfect combination with sweet potatoes!
Just an update to say… wow! These are amazing! Thanks so much for the recipe
Thanks so much!!!
I love sweet potatoes! Those look perfect!
I love twice baked potatoes, and it just occurred to me that I only ever make russets that way! Yikes! I think I need to try that with sweet potatoes, like, tomorrow or something. These sound so delicious! I love the southwestern-ish spin you did there too.
Such a great way to make baked sweet potatoes even better! I love the flavours.
These look delicious! I’m always looking for new ways to use sweet potatoes!
I am definitely a fan of the savory approach to sweet potatoes. I love making stuffed or twice baked regular potatoes, so I will have to try this out, they look so good!
I love baked sweet potatoes but usually use cinnamon and a pad of butter when I mash the filling. I love the idea of savory and this would make a perfect dinner.
Oh wow!!! This is so bright and colourful!
I love sweet potatoes, so packed with flavour.
These would be wonderful for lunch or as a side with dinner 🙂