The best thing about sweet potatoes? You can stuff them with all sorts of fun flavor combinations – and use the skins as the bowl. Here are three easy ways to give the old fashioned twice-baked potato a Paleo-inspired makeover.

Since the sweet potato is so versatile, you can make them savory or sweet, breakfast-ready or dinner-worthy. Plus, they’re chock full of vitamins, fiber, and antioxidants (1) for a healthy nutrition boost.

To get you inspired, we created three easy recipes that require only a handful of ingredients. We start with an eggs and bacon breakfast recipe, highlight the dessert-worthy side of sweet potatoes with a maple syrup and apples dish, and finish with a hearty chicken taco “bowl”. This easy slice-and-stuff method will keep you full from dawn to dusk!

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To save on time, bake your sweet potatoes the night before — they store nicely in the fridge as long as they’re wrapped in foil or kept in a covered container. With pre-baked sweet potatoes, these recipes will only take you 20 minutes, tops!

Go ahead and eat the “bowl” when you’re done noshing – sweet potato skins are an excellent source of beta carotene, potassium and iron. (2)

Eggs in a Sweet Potato Basket

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Eggs in a Basket

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Total time:1 hr

Cook Time:55 mins 55 minutes

Prep Time: 5 mins 5 minutes

Serves:2

Eggs in a Basket

Recipe by: PaleoHacks Team

Eggs are baked right inside a sweet potato and topped with bacon for the ultimate filling breakfast.

Ingredients

• 1 sweet potato
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup cooked and crumbled bacon

Instructions

• Pierce the skin of the sweet potato with a fork 5-6 times, cover in aluminum foil, and bake sweet potatoes at 400°F for 45 minutes.
• Cut the cooled sweet potato into two halves, and scoop out enough flesh in the middle of each to make a “basket”.
• Break one egg into each sweet potato half.
• Bake at 350º F for 10 minutes.
• Top with bacon and enjoy!

Maple Apple Sweet Potatoes

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Maple Apple Sweet Potatoes

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Total time:1 hr
5 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 1 hour

Prep Time: 5 mins 5 minutes

Serves:2

Maple Apple Sweet Potatoes

Recipe by: PaleoHacks Team

Maple syrup, pecans and apples play up the sweet side of the sweet potato.

Ingredients

• 1 sweet potato
• ½ cup diced red apples
• ½ cup pecans
• ½ cup maple syrup
• Dash of cinnamon

Instructions

• Pierce the skin of the sweet potato with a fork 5-6 times, cover in aluminum foil, and bake sweet potatoes at 400°F for 45 minutes.
• Cut the cooled sweet potato in half, and scoop out the flesh.
• Mash up the sweet potato pulp, then mix in apples, pecans, maple syrup and cinnamon.
• Add mixture evenly to each sweet potato half.
• Bake at 350º F for 15 minutes.
• Top with more maple syrup if desired, and enjoy!

Chicken Taco Sweet Potato ‘Bowl’

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Chicken Taco ‘Bowl’

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Total time:55 mins

Cook Time:45 mins 45 minutes

Prep Time: 10 mins 10 minutes

Serves:2

Chicken Taco ‘Bowl’

Recipe by: PaleoHacks Team

Top a baked sweet potato with all the fixins of a Mexican-inspired taco bowl.

Ingredients

• 1 sweet potato
• 1 cup cooked, shredded chicken
• 3 T guacamole
• ¼ cup chopped tomato
• 1 T diced white onion
• ½ cup cooked bacon
• 1 T chopped chives

Instructions

• Pierce the skin of the sweet potato with a fork 5-6 times, cover in aluminum foil, and bake sweet potatoes at 400°F for 45 minutes.
• Cut the cooled sweet potato in half and scoop out enough flesh to make a “bowl”.
• Top with chicken, guacamole, tomato, onion, bacon and chives, and enjoy!

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