Loaded Sweet Potato
Switch up the way you eat and serve sweet potatoes. Instead of a plain sweet potato, make it interesting by creating a loaded sweet potato with some pizazz!
Servings: 4
Calories: 161kcal
Ingredients
- 2 large sweet potatoes
- 1 15 ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained heated or adding at room temperature
- ¼ cup green onions, sliced thin
- ½ cup grape tomatoes, cut in half
- ½ cup corn salsa
- 1 jalapeno, sliced into rings (seeds removed)
- ½ cup guacamole, or smashed avocado
- ½ cup pico de gallo or salsa of choice
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Thoroughly wash and scrub sweet potatoes.
- Using a knife, poke a few holes in the sweet potatoes.
- Place sweet potatoes on the upper rack of the oven, and place a baking sheet on the rack below to sweet potatoes.
- Bake for 1 hour (60 minutes).
- In the meantime, prepare the other ingredients.
- Remove the potatoes from the oven and allow them to cool slightly.
- Now, using a sharp knife, cut each potato in half lengthwise.
- Place each potato half on a plate, skin down, and begin adding the filling ingredients.
- First, add ¼ of the guacamole or smashed avocado.
- Then, add ¼ of the black beans, green onions, corn salsa, cut tomatoes, and jalapeno slices.
- Top with pico de gallo or salsa and chopped cilantro.
Notes
- When cooking with jalapenos, always wear gloves to prevent burning the skin or eyes.
- If you like a little spice, add a few jalapeno seeds to salsa or pico de gallo.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees before baking the potatoes.
- For a larger serving, do not cut potatoes in half; instead, eat the whole potato.
- Buy prepared guacamole, corn salsa, and pico de gallo instead of making your own.
- Or, make homemade pico de gallo and corn salsa.
- Allow the potatoes to cool slightly before cutting.
- Use an oven mitt while handling the hot potatoes to avoid getting burned.
- Add the guacamole first as the base for holding all the ingredients in place.
Nutrition
Serving: -4g | Calories: 161kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 0.2g | Saturated Fat: 0.04g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Sodium: 310mg | Potassium: 724mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 24559IU | Vitamin C: 9mg | Calcium: 67mg | Iron: 1mg