Healthy Dairy-free Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 1 hour 20 mins

Total time: 1 hour 35 mins

Serves: 4 (full potato) or 8 (1/2 potato)

Ingredients

4 small/medium sweet potatoes
Coconut oil + sea salt to coat the sweet potatoes
1 large white onion, sliced thinly
1 tbsp avocado oil or ghee
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 yellow pepper, finely diced
1.5 cups raw spinach, chopped
4 tbsp full fat coconut milk
3 tbsp nutritional yeast
½ tbsp dijon mustard
¼ tsp paprika
Black pepper to taste
Optional: Sprinkle of gluten-free panko bread crumbs, chopped nuts, or crushed healthy crackers

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Wash + dry your potatoes, spray with coconut oil and sprinkle sea salt. Lastly, poke each potato with a fork or knife a few times to release steam.
Bake potatoes for 1 hour or until soft on the inside.
When there are 15 minutes left on the potatoes, sauté the veggies. Add avocado oil to a heated pan and cook onions + garlic for about 10 minutes on medium low heat until browned and soft.
Add in peppers and mix. Turn down the heat and cook for another 5-7 minutes with the pan covered. Stir occasionally.
Add in the chopped spinach and mix. Cook for another 3 to 5 minutes until wilted.
Once potatoes have baked and are cool enough to handle, cut each one in half lengthwise and carefully scoop out the inside using a spoon. Make sure to leave a thin layer of potato to avoid breaking the skin.
Place sweet potato insides in a mixing bowl and mash. Then add in the coconut milk, nutritional yeast, dijon mustard, garlic powder, paprika + black pepper until smooth. Add in the sautéed veggies and mix again until well combined.
Spoon the mixture back into the potato skins and sprinkle with healthy bread crumbs. Bake again (at 400 degrees) for another 15-20 minutes until toasty.
Serves 8 as a side dish or 4 as a meal. Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to a week and reheat in the oven. Enjoy!

Notes

Little Adapted from https://www.paleorunningmomma.com/twice-baked-sweet-potatoes-paleo/

Recipe by at https://www.littleadaptsbyjax.com/healthy-dairy-free-twice-baked-sweet-potatoes/