These buffalo chicken stuffed sweet potatoes are an easy, healthy dinner that pack a powerful punch of flavor! With practically no prep work, they will change your mind on the ease of healthy eating.
Can I just tell you about the moment in my life when I realized I could get the taste of buffalo wings without eating deep friend chicken? I seriously didn’t know for the better portion of my life that you could just buy the sauce at the store and put it on whatever the heck you want. I would venture to call this information life changing.
You see, while I often (read: most of the time) crave buffalo sauce, I practically never crave fried chicken. I know, I know, a lot of people do, but it’s just not my thing. Kinda like I don’t get what the big deal is about mashed potatoes. I mean, I love butter and cream as much as the next girl, but white potatoes are pretty flavorless, and I’d rather just eat the butter on a piece of toast.
I think it’s been pretty clear on this blog that I am all about bold, hit you in the face, stand out in a crowd kind of flavors. I don’t have one of those “sensitive pallets” that enjoys just a hint of spice. I have a heavy hand, and I almost never say things like “The flavors were over powering. I wish it had less spice.”
My other love and probably favorite ingredient ever? SWEET POTATOES. I must have something like 20 sweet potato recipes on here, and I eat them multiple times per week on a regular basis. I love stuffing them with lean protein and bold flavors for a healthy, delicious and FUN dinner option that’s easy to put together any night of the week, and this is definitely one of my favorites!
These buffalo chicken stuffed sweet potatoes are an easy, healthy dinner that pack a powerful punch of flavor! With practically no prep work, they will change your mind on the ease of healthy eating.
Ingredients
- 4 small sweet potatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- coarse sea salt
- 6 tablespoons buffalo sauce (I recommend Frank's Red Hot)
- 2 tablespoons nonfat plain Greek yogurt
- 12 ounces chicken breast, cooked shredded
- 2 ounces freshly crumbled goat cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400. Use a fork to poke several holes into sweet potatoes. Brush each sweet potato with approx 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil and sprinkle to coat lightly with sea salt. Roast until fork tender (meaning a fork easily slides right into the sweet potato), about 45-60 minutes depending on size of your potatoes.
- In a medium bowl, combine chicken, buffalo sauce and yogurt. Slice cooked sweet potatoes down the middle leaving about an inch uncut. Stuff each potato with 1/4 of the buffalo chicken, then top with goat cheese. Serve immediately.
Notes
To reduce cooking time, heat sweet potatoes in the microwave for 2-3 minutes before cooking. This usually reduces my cooking time to about 40 minutes.
This is perfect for an easy weeknight dinner!
you know we love our stuffed potatoes!!! yes please
Haha I love that story about when you realized you could just buy the sauce, I’m kind of the same way I love wings but I also just like the taste of the sauce! These look great!
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Okay, just when I though it wasn’t possible for you to come up with a more perfectly Ari recipe you went and did this. Goat cheese, sweet potato and Franks. Yep. You can now hang up your recipe development hat. You have achieved you in recipe form. <3 Perfection!
Hahahahaha. I freaking love you.
I swear, every time you post a sweet potato recipe I have JUST eaten a sweet potato for dinner, like, the night before. I’m usually pretty boring and top it with veggie chili, but I need to start browsing your site before committing to a sweet potato dinner plan! This sounds awesome, I’m going to pick up some hot wings sauce for next time.
How do you cook the chicken for this recipe?
I generally use a rotisserie chicken, but you can bake, grill, or put it in your crockpot with some chicken broth, then just shred!