Turn healthy sweet potatoes into a meal with these Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Leeks and Sausage.
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Sweet Potatoes are Good For You!
While I could never do a real low carb diet, I have found that paying attention to carbs is a good thing. Mainly high processed carbs like white bread and pasta. Lots of calories for not a lot of return, but I do love carbs! What I am trying to do now is switch over to more healthy carbs, like sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes or whole grain pasta instead of white pasta.
Sweet potatoes, with their bright orange color, are great for beta-carotene, fiber and other vitamins and minerals. Plus I love them!
While everyone is familiar with the sweet potato casseroles around Thanksgiving, with most stores offering them year round, it's super easy to have them just about anytime. Some of my favorites are Chicken, Sweet Potatoes and Olive Tapenade and Slow Cooker Spiced Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes.
Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Leeks and Sausage
I found this recipe for Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Leeks and Sausage at Fine Cooking.
These were so easy and everything I hoped they would be. While the sweet potatoes are baking, you cook up the leeks and sausage. I wanted it a little spicy so I used chorizo sausage and it was perfect. A little bit of sour cream adds a bit of richness to the filling and some grated gruyere cheese on top gives it that cheesy goodness.
Did you know that there are cookbooks dedicated to the beloved sweet potato? Yep! Look at these:
The Sweet Potato Lover's Cookbook: More than 100 Ways to Enjoy One of the World's Healthiest Foods,
Sweet Potatoes: Roasted, Loaded, Fried and Made into Pie,
Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice and Soul.
Love the Fresh Sage!
To make it even better, it used some of my sage. My sage is growing beautifully this year, but I find that I don't use it that often in the summer. I am working on some ways to preserve it, so expect a sage preserving post in the future. In the meantime, make these potatoes. Really, make them. They are so good!
Looking for more Sweet Potato Recipes:
This Maple Roasted Chicken with Sweet Potatoes is an easy sheet pan supper that you'll make over and over again!
If you haven't tried sweet potato noodles, you must! This Miso Chicken with Sweet Potato Noodles is healthy and delicious!
Use some rotisserie chicken to make this easy Chicken and Sweet Potato Farro Salad!
Recipe
Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Leeks and Sausage
Ingredients
- 4 small sweet potatoes
- 1 Tbs. olive oil
- 1/2 lb. bulk sweet Italian sausage or link sausage, casings removed - I used Chorizo
- 1 Tbs. unsalted butter
- 1 lb. leeks white and light-green parts only, quartered lengthwise and thinly sliced (about 2 cups)
- 1 tsp. chopped fresh sage
- 1/4 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
- Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup grated Gruyère
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment. Wash and scrub the sweet potatoes and pierce them in a few places with a small knife or fork. Place on the baking sheet and roast for 40-60 minutes (depending on the size). Remove from oven and set aside until cool enough to handle.
- Add the oil to a skillet over medium high heat. Add the sausage and reduce the heat to medium. Brown, breaking up the sausage into bits, about 5 or 6 minutes. Remove from pan. You can either pour off most of the fat and add the butter, or just leave the fat in like I did and omit the butter. Add the leeks, thyme, sage, and salt to the pan and saute until golden about 10 minutes.
- Cut the sweet potatoes in half and gently scoop out the flesh leaving about 1/4 inch around the skin. Place the scooped out flesh into a medium bowl and mash it a bit with a fork or spoon. Stir in the sour cream and season with salt. Add the sausage and leeks and stir to combine. Spoon the filling carefully back into the sweet potato shells, mounding it up. Place them back on a lined sheet pan and top with the grated cheese.
- Preheat a broiler and broil the sweet potatoes until the cheese is melted and golden.
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Oh yum! Sweet potatoes are my favorite and any time I can make an entire meal out of them is a good night for me! I love how chock full of good stuff these are 🙂
You would love them!
What a great and healthy alternative to Regular twice baked potatoes! Hope to try these soon.
Right!
So creative with the sweet potatoes! Great flavor and LOVE the addition of sage!!!
I loved the sage too!
We love twice baked potatoes around here! Such a great idea to make a meal out of them!
So easy too!
I love stuffed sweet potatoes! these look filling and so delicious, love the addition of the Italian sausage!
Italian sausage is always good!
Sweet potatoes are just to die for. I'm a little lame and rarely have enough time and foresight to bake them properly in the oven (ahem, microwave) but this recipe looks divine with the sausage and leeks. Saving for sure.
You need to try it!
Now this is my kind of autumn comfort food. I love a hearty stuffed potato.
Thanks, me too!
Sounds divine!
Gruyere is one of my favorites!
Love it!
Thanks for the recipe!
Michelle
I'm not a huge sweet potato fan but this looks delicious. I would have to substitute the leeks - maybe add the bacon.
I love twice baked potatoes too! What a great combination with the leeks and sausage! This is going into our fall meal lineup!
I also made those...fabulous!
These sound so good! Love the use of leeks in combination with the sausage and Gruyère - looking forward to trying this one out!
I have leeks from my CSA also! Going to have to make this, but with some kind of replacement for the sausage. Sounds so good!