Mexican Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

Hello there!  Been awhile.  We had a crazy busy June and I am just starting to get caught back up on blogging.  Currently I am in the middle of writing a lengthy post all about our fun trip to Chicago for our private family blog (email me if you want an invite) but today I felt like taking a break from that post and writing something a little simpler and shorter.   

Recently I made a few meals for my family when we were visiting Salt Lake and they loved them so I thought I would share one of them with you today. 

I made this at their house because they have air conditioning and this recipe involves leaving on the oven for a few hours.   Currently we are in crock pot or raw food mode since the oven is not allowed to be on if the house is over 73 degrees.  lol ok so maybe I just made up that rule... but really we try to not turn the oven on at all these days. 

The recipe is Twice baked Sweet Potatoes Yummy!

We LOVE sweet potatoes at our house and they are SO good for you.  Even though we live in Idaho (potato central) we have almost given up on regular potatoes in exchange for sweet potatoes.  Here are a few facts about why we choose sweet potatoes. We most commonly just bake them in the oven and then put cinnamon and butter on top and use them as a side dish, but this recipe gives a little kick of spicy and sweet that is delicious! 

Ok one last thing before we get started...  Before last year I had never bought a raw sweet potato (had only seem them in cans with little marshmallows on top hehe!) so I was a little clueless when I headed to the store for the first time to buy one.  After a little trial and error I have found that instead of buying an actual sweet potato, which is lighter in color then the "sweet potatoes" that I am used to, I buy a JEWEL YAM.  It has the darker orange color and tastes really good.
  
I saw a few different recipes for twice baked sweet potatoes so I decided to just kind of combine the things that I liked from each of the recipes into one.  This meal IS a little spicy so if you have kids (Adalyn really likes it) I would leave to pepper jack cheese off of their potato and they should be good to go. 

Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

(Adapted from this recipe.  you can see a picture of what they look like there too.)  

 

Ingredients:

4 Sweet Potatoes (I buy Jewel yams)

1 cup Frozen corn

1 can Black Beans

1/4-1/2 yellow onion chopped

olive oil

1/2 tsp Red pepper flakes

1/4 cup full fat greek yogurt

1 ounce cream cheese

3/4ish cup Pepper Jack Cheese (to sprinkle on top)

 

Directions:

Cook your sweet potato in the oven or maybe you could do the crock pot (haven't tried it yet).  I bake mine at 350 degrees for about 1 hour, sometimes longer depending on the size of the potato.  After they are done, let them cool for a few minutes.

-While sweet potatoes cook roast corn with some salt on stove. let corn roast for about 10 minutes and then add diced onions and 1 TBSP Olive oil to the pan.  Sauté onions until they turn translucent.  Place onions, corn, and black beans in a bowl. 

-Carefully slice cooled sweet potato horizontally and scrap out flesh into bowl with black beans, roasted corn and sautéed onions.   (save the skins for later!)

-Add Cream cheese, greek yogurt, and red pepper flakes to potato/corn mixture and stir gently. 

-Once everything is mixed together.  Carefully scoop the mixture back into the skins.  Filling each one. 

-Top each potato with Pepper Jack cheese. 

-Put potatoes back in the over for about 10 minutes or until cheese is fully melted. 

-Enjoy!  

 

Hope you like it!  And since no post is ever complete without a picture.  Here are the kiddos in their 4th of July cuteness!  Look for more posts, hopefully I will update stuff soon!  Have a great day!