Stuffed sweet potato recipes make it easy to prepare healthy lunches and dinners with so much flavor!
Stuffed sweet potatoes or loaded sweet potatoes are an easy way to switch up your lunch or dinner routine from baked potatoes with toppings. Serve a sweet potato bar where everyone can grab their own toppings for game day or a birthday party. Make extra sweet potatoes, so you’ll have easy lunches for the next couple of days.
There are lots of classic options here, such as buffalo chicken, chili, and chicken pesto as well as more unusual flavors, such as cranberry apple and quinoa with spinach. There are meat and vegetarian recipes with endless possibilities for customization.
Please note that there are a few twice-baked sweet potato recipes in this round-up, which do take a little more time. Make sure to plan accordingly.
Stuffed sweet potato recipes
1. Mediterranean
Simply Quinoa’s Mediterranean-stuffed sweet potatoes have quinoa, chickpeas, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, spinach, and herbs, finished with a tahini-lemon dressing. They’re packed with nutrition and flavor.
2. Buffalo chicken
You can’t go wrong with buffalo chicken for a fall gathering. 40 Apron’s buffalo chicken stuffed sweet potatoes are a fun way to switch up your game day menu. Homemade buffalo sauce takes the flavor over the top.
3. Buffalo chickpea
Running on Real Food’s buffalo chickpea stuffed sweet potatoes swaps in chickpeas for chicken to make the recipe meat-free. I love the addition of avocado to bulk it up a bit.
4. Sloppy Joe
All the Healthy Thing’s sloppy Joe stuffed sweet potatoes are everything that you love about the classic sandwiches with even more fiber and veggies. I love the concept of adding vegetables right into the ground beef mixture.
5. Barbecue chicken
One of the best parts about making barbecue chicken is that there are so many recipes you can make with it. Evolving Table’s barbecue chicken stuffed sweet potatoes (pictured) are everything that you want from this recipe. If you’d like another variation in your rotation, All the Healthy Things tops her barbecue chicken stuffed sweet potatoes with homemade coleslaw.
6. Chicken bacon Ranch
It’s hard to beat the flavor combination of chicken bacon Ranch. I love the concept of using it for sweet potatoes with Healthy Little Peach’s chicken bacon Ranch stuffed sweet potatoes.
7. Chickpea
Food with Feeling’s chickpea-stuffed sweet potatoes are so simple and flavorful. You make the entire filling in one pan in just five minutes.
8. Tandoori chickpea
Chickpeas are a very popular vegetarian filling option for stuffed potatoes and sweet potatoes, and it’s not hard to see why. They’re nutritious, cheap, and so versatile. I wanted to include one more chickpea recipe in this round-up.
Rainbow Plant Life’s tandoori chickpea stuffed sweet potatoes bring all of your favorite spicy, aromatic Indian flavors into an easy, stress-free weeknight meal.
9. Mexican
When you want to switch up taco night, 40 Apron’s Mexican chicken-stuffed sweet potatoes are a great choice. Any meat will work well here, and you can switch up the toppings as you like.
10. Mexican street corn
Anyone who loves Mexican street corn won’t be able to get enough of Chelsea’s Messy Apron’s Mexican street corn stuffed sweet potatoes. Make a double batch of the corn, so you can enjoy it for another meal this week, such as in salads or on grilled chicken.
11. Mexican quinoa
Simply Quinoa’s Mexican quinoa stuffed sweet potatoes are packed with plant-based protein. Make the filling and prepare the toppings in just 10 minutes while the sweet potatoes finish in the oven.
12. Taco
Belle of the Kitchen’s taco stuffed sweet potatoes take old-school ground beef tacos to a new healthy level. Cooking the ground beef with garlic, onions, and salsa gives it so much flavor. Don’t skimp on the toppings.
13. Shepherd’s pie
Brownie Bites’ shepherd’s pie stuffed sweet potatoes are such an easy way to lighten up this classic recipe and make the prep simpler and quicker. While not remotely close to the original shepherd’s pie recipe, it’s very tasty and easy to customize.
14. Chicken pesto
Chicken pesto is one of my all-time favorite savory flavor combinations. Paleo Running Mama’s chicken pesto stuffed sweet potatoes can be made ahead of time and reheat very well.
15. Sausage
Pinch Me Good’s twice-baked sausage sweet potatoes have onion and pepper in the filling and are topped with Parmesan cheese and green onions. Baking them a second time gets the tops nice and crispy.
16. Chili
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are great vehicles for chili and other hearty soups. Cooking with Cocktail Rings shares her favorite recipe for chili stuffed sweet potatoes with ground beef chili.
17. French onion
How Sweet Eats’ French onion stuffed sweet potatoes with thyme roasted breadcrumbs instantly elevate any weeknight meal to restaurant status. While time intensive, it’s largely hands-off time and not a difficult recipe.
18. Classic potato skins
It’s hard to beat classic potato skins. The recipe concept works well with sweet potatoes, too. Sally’s Baking Addiction keeps her loaded sweet potato skins simple with cheese and bacon and tops them with sour cream and chives.
19. Cranberry pecan chicken
I love the next couple of stuffed sweet potato recipes for Friendsgiving and other holiday meals with non-traditional menus. Beautiful Eats and Things’ cranberry pecan chicken is so straightforward but feels so special for a weeknight or holiday.
20. Turkey, cranberry, and goat cheese
Cookin’ Canuck’s turkey, cranberry, and goat cheese stuffed sweet potatoes is another fabulous recipe for Friendsgiving or using up leftover holiday meat as well as cranberry sauce.
21. Mushrooms, farro, and leeks
Sweet Potato Soul’s mushroom, farro, and leek-stuffed sweet potatoes have a hearty grain and vegetable filling. Then they’re topped with an aioli that takes the flavor over the top.
22. Quinoa and spinach
Moms Who Saves’ quinoa and spinach stuffed sweet potatoes also have cranberries, pecans, and goat cheese. There is so much flavor and texture here.
23. Chicken fajita
Sunkissed Kitchen’s chicken fajita stuffed sweet potatoes are a great way to upgrade sweet potatoes when you aren’t in the mood for traditional fajitas. They’re time-intensive but not difficult to make.
24. Cranberry apple
Cranberry apple is a classic flavor pairing that complements sweet potato perfectly. Whole and Heavenly Oven’s cranberry apple twice-baked sweet potatoes are like a sweet potato casserole but with fruit.
25. Tangelos, avocado, and halloumi
When you’re ready for something completely different, make Brooklyn Supper’s tangelo, avocado, and halloumi stuffed sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes are finished with a ginger-citrus vinaigrette.
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