Savory Baked Sweet Potato

Here's one of my favorite, quick, satisfying lunch or dinners! This recipe is prep for 2 meals.

One portion shown here

Savory Baked Sweet Potato

Ingredients:
2 small or 1 larger sweet potato
1 cup of frozen, shelled edamame (found in with frozen vegetables)
4-6 Tbsp of salsa

Directions:

1. Wash sweet potato. 
2. Stab sweet potato with a fork all over. For smaller sweet potatoes, make a shallow cut length wise on the potato to easily open it to stuff like the picture shows.
3. Throw sweet potato in the microwave, alone or on a microwave-safe plate, and hit the baked potato button twice or cook for about 9 minutes. Time length will vary based on size of potato, but sweet potatoes generally take twice as long to cook than regular potatoes. 
4. Use oven mitt or towel to remove sweet potato from microwave and set aside to cool slightly.
5. Put edamame in a microwaveable cup and cover beans with water. Cook for approximately 3 minutes.  
6. Cut the sweet potato into cubes. Remember, you are prepping 2 meals. If you are saving the 2nd meal for later, put the sweet potato and 1/2 the edamame in a Tupperware container now.
7. Drain water from cup with edamame in it. 
8. Top sweet potato with 1/2 cup edamame and 2-3 Tbsp salsa. 
9. Optional: heat the salsa in the microwave for 20 seconds prior to topping the sweet potato with it. I personally prefer a really warm potato and cool/room-temp salsa.

Enjoy!

One serving is approximately 300 calories.

Thanks for reading!

xo,

Danielle