Healthy Baked Sweet Potato with Easy and Delicious Homemade Chili
A delicious sweet potato, fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside, topped with a super quick and easy homemade chili, this healthy sweet potato is my favourite dish to tuck into on chilly weeknights.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Paleo
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 15 minutesminutes
Total Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 1serving
Calories 400kcal
Ingredients
1smallsweet potato
4.4oz / 125glean ground beef
¼cupchopped bell pepper
⅓cuptomato sauce / passata
½teaspoonground cumin
½teaspoonsmoked paprika
¼teaspoonchili powder
¼teaspoonsea salt
⅛teaspoon dried oregano
⅛teaspoonground cinnamon
Instructions
Prick the sweet potato all over with a fork. Place on a piece of kitchen paper and cook in the microwave for 8 minutes, or until completely soft and cooked through. Alternatively, bake the sweet potato in the oven at 400F/200C for 30 minutes, until cooked through.
While the potato is cooking, add the mince and bell pepper to a small frying pan over a medium heat. Brown the mince for 5 minutes and drain off the fat.
Stir in the rest of the ingredients (tomato sauce/passata, cumin, paprika, chili powder, salt, oregano and cinnamon) and leave to simmer for 10 minutes.
Slice the sweet potato in half, fluff up the insides with a fork and top with the homemade chili.