20 Best Sweet Potato Recipes
on Nov 03, 2021
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This list of the 20 best sweet potato recipes includes healthy vegan and vegetarian ideas for every part of a meal from appetizers and salads to sides and main dishes.
There are few ingredients more perfect than sweet potatoes. Besides just being an absolute dream to eat (hello, fries!), there are endless things you can do with them. Resist the urge to eat roasted sweet potatoes straight off the sheet pan. Instead add them to grains for a side dish or to greens for a hearty fall – winter salad.
But roasting isn’t the only thing you can do with sweet potatoes. Simmer those spuds in broth for silky soups with plenty of vegetables. And of course you can mash them into a lighter version of the comfort classic side dish. You have my permission to make a batch of oven-baked sweet potato fries and call it a meal too.
Sweet Potato Side Dishes
Honey Balsamic Mashed Sweet Potatoes
These honey balsamic mashed sweet potatoes have a touch of sweetness with a little acid and heat. With so much flavor and personality, they don’t require a pat of butter.
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Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
Tuck fresh herbs such as rosemary, thyme and sage in between the thin slices of these hasselback sweet potatoes for a beautiful and easy side.
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Smashed Sweet Potatoes
This is an easy no-peel potato recipe. Even though you have to boil the potatoes before you smash and roast them, it’s very quick to cut them into rounds. Because they’re individual bites, this side dish looks fancy, but it’s simple to make.
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Sriracha Lime Roasted Brussels Sprouts & Sweet Potatoes
Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes are side dish super stars, and this easy recipe gives you a fresh take on them. Citrus adds something bright and zippy while sriracha gives the veggies pleasant heat.
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Salad Recipes with Sweet Potatoes
Kale Sweet Potato Chickpea Salad
With sunflower seeds, feta and lemon garlic vinaigrette, if there is such a thing as a simple sheet pan salad, this sweet potato chickpea kale salad is it.
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Autumn Chopped Salad
Try the combination of roasted sweet potatoes, apples, pears, romaine, kale and sherry vinaigrette in this autumn chopped salad that’s all about the best flavors of fall.
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Roasted Sweet Potato Cauliflower Salad
With a mix of spinach, farro and scallions, this roasted sweet potato cauliflower salad is hearty and filling enough to count as dinner or lunch.
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Roasted Potato Brussels Sprout Salad
This roasted potato brussels sprout salad is fresh, crunchy and filling with sweet potatoes, new potatoes, kale, scallions and crumbled blue cheese all tossed in garlic vinaigrette.
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Sweet Potato Salad
Jalapeño lime vinaigrette gives this sweet potato salad with red peppers and black beans a spicy kick. There is always a place for a no-mayo potato salad. And the leftovers make a great quesadilla filling.
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Sweet Potato Main Dishes
Chickpea Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Roasting the main ingredients together in the oven makes these chickpea spinach stuffed sweet potatoes an easy vegan multi-tasking recipe. I drizzle them with tahini once I have them assembled.
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Sweet Potato Gnocchi
With crispy sage and brown butter, this homemade sweet potato gnocchi is the flavors of autumn on a plate. Roasting the potatoes helps keeps the dumplings pillowy and light.
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Sheet Pan Sweet Potato Black Bean Tofu
A mix of dried spices and fresh herby chimichurri add lots of flavor and spice to this easy sheet pan sweet potato black bean tofu. You can serve it with cooked grains like barley, quinoa or rice.
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Sweet Potato Appetizers
Sweet Potato Skins
Appetizer, game day snack or even dinner, these healthy vegetarian sweet potato skins are filled with spinach, black beans, salsa and just a little cheese. They're topped with scallions and cilantro.
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Baked Sweet Potato Fritters
These baked sweet potato fritters have a spicy kick thanks to cumin and cayenne pepper. You can serve them as an appetizer, a side dish or on a salad.
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Sheet Pan Sweet Potato Black Bean Quesadillas
With a spicy mix of cumin and cayenne pepper, bake these easy sheet pan sweet potato black bean quesadillas in the oven so they're all ready at the same time.
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Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Fries
These spicy sweet potato fries are tossed in a spice blend with paprika, onion powder, garlic powder and cayenne pepper for some heat before they are baked in the oven.
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Baked Sweet Potato Chips
Try a spicy mix of seasoning with Spanish paprika, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper for a healthy snack with these oven baked sweet potato chips.
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Soup Recipes with Sweet Potatoes
Sweet Potato White Bean Quinoa Soup
This is a hearty vegan soup that’s worthy of a meal on its own with quinoa, sweet potatoes and beans. I have a rotation of vegetable soups that I go through during the fall and winter months.
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Roasted Sweet Potato Cauliflower Soup
To give the vegetables their moment to shine, other than salt and pepper, just a touch of cumin is the only other seasoning in this roasted sweet potato cauliflower soup.
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Sweet Potato Chili
With black beans, corn and red bell peppers, this vegan chili has lots of flavor and just the right amount of heat for lunch or dinner or a game day spread.
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