South Western Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes

Fresh sweet potatoes filled with onion, pepper and seasoned ground beef, these twice-baked sweet potatoes will be your new favorite!

I think that too often people automatically think of sweet dishes when it comes to sweet potatoes. But once you get a taste of these savory sweet potatoes, you’ll re-think that idea in a hurry.

These sweet potatoes start with seasoned ground beef with pepper and onion and are topped off with a bit of shredded Monterrey Jack cheese.

If you leave the cheese off at the end, these will be a paleo-friendly meal.

South Western Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

Constance Smith - Cosmopolitan Cornbread

Fresh sweet potatoes filled with onion, pepper and seasoned ground beef, these twice-baked sweet potatoes will be your new favorite!

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 5 minutes mins

Course Entrées - Main Dishes, Paleo or Low Carb

Cuisine American

Calories 566 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 4 sweet potatoes
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 green bell pepper, diced
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 1 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 c shredded Monterrey Jack cheese

Instructions

 

• To begin, preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
• Wash the sweet potatoes and poke them several times with a fork. Set them on a baking sheet and bake for 50-60 minutes or until they are cooked. Once they are done, remove them from the oven, but do not turn it off yet.
• While they are baking, cook the ground beef, onion and pepper together in a skillet, breaking up the meat as it cooks. When it is cooked, stir in the salt, pepper, cumin and smoked paprika.
• Carefully cut a slit in each potato and scoop most of the insides into a bowl, leaving about a half inch layer of potato on the inside of the skin.
• Add the meat mixture to the bowl with the sweet potato and stir it together to combine.
• Spoon the mixture back into the potatoes and bake for 10 more minutes.
• After they have finished baking, stop them with the shredded cheese.
• Enjoy!

Nutrition

Serving: 1cCalories: 566kcalCarbohydrates: 32gProtein: 40gFat: 30gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 131mgSodium: 492mgFiber: 5gSugar: 10g

Nutritional information is auto-generated and the accuracy is not guaranteed.

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