Yields:
4 Servings
Difficulty: Medium
Prep Time: 20 Mins
Cook Time:
40 Mins
Total Time:
1 Hr
Both healthy and delicious, loaded sweet potatoes are sure to please everyone at your table. I was inspired by one of my favorite lunch places in Fresno, Farm Fresh Bowls. They do an awesome sweet potato bowl that’s one of my favorite go to lunches. One of the best things about this recipe is how versatile it is, you can add nearly any topping to a sweet potato. For this, I added turmeric spiced chicken, sautéed zucchini, onions, and bell peppers, black beans and a little cheese. Honorable mentions: thick cut bacon and even more cheese would make this even more delicious.
Ingredients
Adjust Servings
- For the Chicken
Instructions
- Wash any dirt off the sweet potatoes. Using a fork, pierce each sweet potato 4 - 5 times, one on each side of the potato. Put potatoes on a plate and microwave for 5 minutes. Flip potatoes over and microwave another 5 minutes. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Once potatoes are out of the microwave, place on a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, and carefully rub onto potato skin. Season liberally with salt. Place potatoes in oven and cook for 35 - 40 minutes, until potatoes are soft and you can pierce easily with a fork.
- While the potatoes cook, thinly slice 1/2 of onion and bell pepper. Cut zucchini in half, and then cut again lengthwise, so you have two half cylinder shaped zucchini. Thinly slice width-wise, so that the pieces look like half circles. Add 1 tsp olive oil to a large pan heated over medium heat, and add onion. Cook for 2 - 3 minutes, until onions are soft. Add bell pepper, and cook another 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Finally, add the zucchini and cook 1 - 2 more minutes before reducing heat to low.
- Heat black beans in a small pot over low heat for 4 - 6 minutes, until steaming and heated through.
- Cut chicken breasts into bite sized pieces. Add to a pan with 1 tsp olive oil heated over medium high heat. Add turmeric, salt, and pepper. Stir so that each piece is spiced well. Cook 5 - 6 minutes, until chicken is no longer pink in the middle.
- Remove sweet potatoes from oven after 40 minutes, and let cool for a few minutes. Slice each potato down the center and split open. Add chicken, vegetables, beans, and top with 1/8 cup of cheese.