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Sweet & Savory Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 2 servings

Ingredients

  • 2 about 8 to 9 oz. each medium sweet potatoes
  • ½ about 80 g. diced red peppers
  • 1 handful about 40 g. fresh spinach
  • ½ cup 80 g. black beans (drained and rinsed from a can)
  • 2 oz. shredded pepper jack cheese
  • Kosher salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 400°F.
  2. Peel the potatoes and set them directly on the oven grate or on a small square of foil.
  3. Bake the sweet potatoes for 50 to 60 minutes.
  4. About 10 minutes before the sweet potatoes are done add your diced peppers to a dry non-stick sauté pan.
  5. Sauté peppers until they start to soften.
  6. Add the spinach, black beans, and a pinch of salt. Sauté until the spinach wilts then remove from the heat.
  7. When the sweet potatoes are done place each one in a separate bowl.
  8. Slice each one lengthwise and squeeze each on the ends to open them up. Be careful not to burn yourself the sweet potatoes will be super-hot!
  9. Divide the pepper mixture in half and spoon evenly into each opened up sweet potato.
  10. Top with each stuffed sweet potato with 1oz. of the pepper jack.
  11. Let the sweet potatoes sit for a couple of minutes to cool. The cheese will melt a little from the heat of the sweet potato and pepper mixture.
  12. EAT!!!