Healthy Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Beans and Avocado
Stuffed sweet potatoes with beans and avocado can be quite filling. They give your body a healthy dose of the carbs found in the potatoes, proteins found in the beans and rich vitamins found in avocado. This dish will take 30 minutes to prepare.
Ingredients needed:
- 1 small sweet potato
- 1 teaspoon of extra virgin oil
- 1 cup onion finely diced
- 1 clove garlic finely minced
- 1 cup tomato
- 1 cup canned black beans both rinsed and drained
- 2 tablespoons shredded cheese
- ½ avocado cubed and 2 tablespoons of fresh cilantro
How to prepare:
Pierce the unpeeled sweet potato a couple of times with a fork. Preheat the oven to 425°F and place the pierced potatoes on a foil-lined baking sheet. Bake it for 45 minutes. In the meanwhile, sauté diced onion and minced garlic cloves in a skillet for 5 minutes. Now add tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes. Smash half a cup of black beans and add smashed mixture to the skillet. Cook for few minutes until the stuffing is heated. Take the baked sweet potato out of the oven and, as it cools down, gently scoop out the flesh in between leaving some skin around the edges. Fill this empty scooped area with the stuffing made. Now top it with cheddar cheese, remaining bean mixture, avocado and cilantro.