Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Ham recipe

All Recipes Side Dish Vegetables Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

2 large sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons canola oil
3 tablespoons diced onion
3 tablespoons diced red bell pepper
1 cup diced smoked ham
⅔ cup crushed pineapple, divided
½ teaspoon chipotle chile powder, or to taste
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Nutrition Info

371.5 calories
carbohydrate: 53.5 g
cholesterol: 18.9 mg
fat: 13.5 g
fiber: 7.5 g
protein: 10.1 g
saturatedFat: 2.8 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 559.2 mg
sugar: 16.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

  2. Bake sweet potatoes in the preheated oven until softened, about 1 hour.

  3. Heat canola oil in a skillet over medium heat, saute onion and red bell pepper until just softened, about 5 minutes. Add ham, 1/2 the pineapple, and chipotle powder, saute over low heat until heated through, about 5 more minutes.

  4. Cut sweet potatoes in half lengthwise and scoop out the insides, leaving a thin shell. Blend sweet potatoes in a blender or mash in a bowl with a potato masher. Stir the remaining pineapple, nutmeg, and cinnamon into mashed sweet potatoes.

  5. Return mashed sweet potato mixture to the shells and top each with ham mixture.

Recipe Yield

4 servings

Recipe Note

Hearty enough for an entree or a full-bodied side dish. My own creation trying to blend sweet and savory. Hope you enjoy and let me know all your adaptations for the under-used sweet potato! Lots of variations are possible with this. The chipotle and salty ham were a great kick with the sweetness of the potato and pineapple. No other sugars were needed. Hope you like it!

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