I am going to start by saying how delicious this was. My mom makes this with regular white potatoes and crumbled bacon. I 100% agree with you that everything is better with bacon but my husband and I both agreed it was delicious without! Maybe the clean eating is getting to us? 😉 This would be an awesome make ahead meal and as a busy mom I love anything I can make during nap time. Here’s the recipe!
Loaded sweet potato and chicken bake
4 sweet potatoes– rinsed, peeled and cubed (you don’t have to peel if you don’t want to)
3-4 chicken breasts (depending on size)– 1 inch cubes
1/2 cup EVOO
1 1/2 Tbsp paprika
2 Tbsp garlic powder
3 Tbsp hot sauce (more or less depending on how spicy you like it)
Salt and pepper to taste (about 2 tsp of each was good)
1/2 cup green onions, diced
1 cup (or a little more) shredded cheddar cheese
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
In a measuring cup mix EVOO, paprika, garlic powder, hot sauce, salt and pepper.
Add sweet potatoes in a bowl and pour half of the oil mixture in the bowl mix them around and and let them sit for 10 minutes.
Coat a baking dish (I used 13X9) with cooking spray.
Evenly spread the sweet potatoes in the baking dish and bake for 30-40 minutes. Every 15 minutes I moved them around so they didn’t get too brown.
While the sweet potatoes are baking cube the chicken and add into the bowl the potatoes were in and top with the rest of the oil mixture.
Once the timer goes off for the sweet potatoes take the dish out and top the potatoes with the chicken and 1/4 cup of green onions. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Once chicken is just about fully cooked take the dish out and top everything with cheddar cheese. Place back in the oven for 5 minutes to let the cheese melt.
Top with remaining green onions and ENJOY!
*For 21 day fix* 1 cup serving is about 1 1/2 yellow, 1 red (judge by the amount of chicken you have), 1 blue, 2 tsp
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