Southwestern Stuffed Sweet Potato Halves

Hello everyone, sorry I was MIA. I finished up my classes studying abroad in Spain. The program was only six weeks so it was a lot of class, a lot of traveling, and a lot of fun. I definitely know a lot more español from living there for six weeks. So now I have time to FINALLY get around to updating my blog. Especially because I was living in a host family and haven't had time to cook all that much so this is just an update of what I've cooked in the past.

This is Southwestern Stuffed Sweet Potato. It consists of one sweet potato stuffed with cheese and black bean corn salsa topped with avocado yogurt sauce. I made it in May (yeah I'm super behind...) for celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the healthy way :)

This recipe is super easy, and super healthy, and you get your protein and carbs in one dish which is nice. I just added a side of vegetables and it was a full meal! The recipe is from Averie Cooks. Here's how you do it:

Sweet Potato and Filling Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 medium/large Sweet Potato
• 1/2 cup Corn and Black Bean Salsa (you can find this in most grocery stores, otherwise find a chunkier salsa to use or fill it with a mix of corn, black beans, and salsa in 1/2 cup)
• Salt and Pepper to taste
• Heaping 1/4 cup shredded cheese (of your preference, for this dish I used Mexican Blend)

Directions:

• Prick Sweet Potato with a fork all over
• Place in a microwaveable dish for about 7-10 minutes on high power to cook
• Cook until tender when pierced with a fork
• While potato is in the microwave, preheat oven to Broil setting
• Remove potato from microwave and slice in half lengthwise
• Scoop out and hollow out a column in the center of the sweet potato with a spoon so that there is enough space to put your filling
• Place the halves on a greased baking sheet
• Evenly divide the corn and black bean salsa in each half and add salt and pepper to taste
• Evenly top each half with the shredded cheese
• Broil for about 3 minutes until the cheese begins to melt and is bubbly. Because you're broiling, keep a close eye on them because it is very easy to burn since it is such a high temperature setting!
• Remove and let cool. Then eat with the avocado yogurt sauce.

Avocado Yogurt Sauce Recipe:

Ingredients:

• An avocado
• Greek Yogurt
• Lime Juice
• Salt and Pepper to Taste

Directions:

• Mix to taste.
• I didn't measure anything out when I made it but I used the whole avocado, I added greek yogurt to taste (start with a little and add more if you want more) depending on how creamy you want it to be, then add a little splash of lime juice (or a lot if you want it to taste more citrusy) 
• Mash all together
• Spread over the sweet potato and enjoy :)

Enjoy :)

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