This recipe is the ultimate easy dinner or lunch! It's packed with protein and nutrients from the chicken and sweet potatoes; it is easy to make and even easier to eat. Cooked sweet potatoes are scooped out and mixed with maple syrup and spices before being filled back in the potato skins; topped with shredded, cooked chicken breast tossed with your favorite BBQ sauce, this is the perfect dish to pair alongside a roasted vegetable like broccoli for a full meal. Add these BBQ Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes to your meal plan!
Course dinner, lunch, main course
Cuisine American
Keyword bbq chicken, sweet potatoes
Prep Time 1 hourhour
Cook Time 15 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Calories 354kcal
Author Steph
Equipment
mixing bowls
casserole dish or baking dish
Ingredients
1.5lbsweet potatoes2 very large sweet potatoes, insides weighing about 24 ounces or 1.5 lbs after cooked
2tbspmaple syrup
1/2tspkosher salt
1/2tsppaprika
1/2tspgarlic powder
1/2tspcumin
1/2tspcinnamon
1/4tspcayenne pepper
1/4tspdried thyme
2cooked chicken breastlarge, a rotisserie chicken works well here
1/2cupbarbeque saucelower sugar, like Stubbs Original
1/2cupred oniondiced
2scallionschopped
Instructions
Cook the sweet potatoes; to do this easily, place the whole sweet potatoes directly on the oven rack and roast them at 400F for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until tender.
Scoop the sweet potato insides into a mixing bowl. Reserve the skins.
Add the maple syrup, salt, paprika, garlic powder, cumin, cinnamon, cayenne, and thyme.
Stir the sweet potato mixture until well combined.
Add the sweet potato mixture back into the potato skins.
Arrange the stuffed sweet potatoes in a casserole dish or baking dish.
In another bowl, shred the chicken breast.
Chop the red onion.
Add the barbeque sauce and chopped red onion to the chicken, and stir to combine.
Add the chicken mixture to the top of each potato.
Bake the potatoes at 400F for about 10-15 minutes or until heated through and slightly browned on top.
Drizzle with extra barbeque sauce for serving, and garnish with chopped scallions.