Savory Twice Baked Sweet Potato Food

SAVORY TWICE-BAKED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place the sweet potatoes on a parchment-lined baking sheet; bake until tender when pierced with a paring knife, about 45 minutes. Remove from oven; let cool slightly.
• Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil; fit with a wire rack. Arrange bacon strips on rack, and sprinkle with brown sugar. Cook until well glazed and crisp, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven; let cool slightly, and roughly chop. Set aside.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a small skillet over medium heat. Add shallots; saute until soft and fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add rosemary, and cook 1 minute more. Remove from heat, and set aside.
• Slice each potato in half lengthwise. Carefully scoop out flesh, leaving about a 1/4-inch border all around potato halves; set halves aside on a baking sheet.
• Place flesh in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add remaining 2 tablespoons butter, reserved shallot mixture, egg, cream, and Gruyere. Mix well until combined. Season with salt and pepper.
• Transfer mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a star tip; pipe into reserved halves. Bake until golden, about 20 minutes. Remove from oven; garnish with Gruyere, rosemary, and reserved bacon.

TWICE-BAKED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Put the potatoes on a baking sheet and rub them with the oil. Bake until soft, about 1 hour. Let cool enough so you can handle them.
• Slice the butter into pats and add to a large bowl. Add the bacon and sour cream.
• Cut each potato in half lengthwise and scrape out the insides into the bowl, being careful not to tear the skins. Leave a small rim of potato intact for support. Lay the hollowed-out skins on a baking sheet.
• Smash the potatoes into the butter, bacon and sour cream. Add the cheese, chili powder, green onions and some salt and pepper and mash until smooth. Spoon the filling into the potato skins.
• If baking right away, lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake until the cheese is melted and the tops are brown, about 15 minutes.
• If cooking later, cover the stuffed potato skins with plastic wrap and refrigerate. Bake at 350 degrees F until the cheese is melted and the tops are brown, 15 to 20 minutes.

LOADED TWICE-BAKED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet. Prick with a knife and drizzle with olive oil; rub to coat. Space sweet potatoes evenly apart.
• Bake in the preheated oven until completely tender, about 35 minutes.
• Meanwhile, add bacon to a pan over medium heat. Cook and stir until bacon starts to get crispy and the fat turns foamy, 4 to 5 minutes. Add green onions and jalapeno; cook and stir for 1 minute. Remove from heat and set aside.
• Let sweet potatoes cool until safe to handle. Leave the oven on. Cut off the top 1/3 of each potato, holding the knife at a 45-degree angle. Scoop out sweet potato flesh from both the top and bottom halves, leaving at least 1/4 inch flesh in the bottoms to make the shells.
• Season the sweet potato flesh with salt, pepper, and cayenne. Add 1/2 cup cheese, creme fraiche, and lime juice. Mash with a potato masher. Add the bacon mixture and mix until combined. Spoon filling into the sweet potato shells. Lightly scatter remaining cheese on top.
• Bake until heated through and tops have started to brown, 20 to 25 minutes.

TWICE BAKED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Saute chopped shallots in olive oil until they soften and begin to caramelize; do not burn.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Cut potatoes in half lengthwise and scoop out soft flesh.
• Mash sweet potatoes in a bowl with cooked shallots, sour cream, salt and pepper.
• Stir in crumbled bacon and grated cheese.
• Fill empty potato shells with mixture.
• Bake at 375F for 45 minutes to one hour, or until potatoes are hot and toasty on top.

SAVORY TWICE BAKED SWEET POTATO

Steps:

• Microwave sweet potato or bake until soft (usually 6 minutes in the microwave).
• Cut the potato in half, scoop out the meat, and place in bowl. Be sure to save the skins.
• Add Greek yogurt, green onions, the cheese of choice, and salt to taste. Mix well.
• Scoop this mixture back into the skins of the sweet potato.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
• Garnish with green onion, cheese, or some black pepper. Enjoy!

SAVORY TWICE BAKED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Wash sweet potato and cut in half lengthwise.
• Place potato halves face down on a foil-covered greased cookie sheet ( i cover the potato halves in foil for more even cooking).
• Bake potatoes for about 30 minutes.
• While the potatoes are baking, saute onions and mushrooms in the olive oil over medium heat until the onions are translucent and the mushrooms give off liquid, about 10 minutes.
• Take potatoes out of oven, carefully scoop the potato out of the skins and mash in a mixing bowl.
• Add onions, mushroom, cayenne, feta, salt and pepper to the mashed sweet potatoes, mixing ingredients together.
• Divide mixture in half and scoop it back into the empty potato skins.
• Bake the potatoes for another 8-10 minutes on 375, broiling for the last minute or two of cooking time if you'd like to crisp the tops of the potatoes slightly.

SWEET TWICE BAKED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees.
• Line baking pan or cookie sheet with foil. Spray foil with cooking spray.
• Cut potatoes in half.
• Sprinkle with sea salt and place cut side down on prepared pan.
• Bake 30 minutes or until potato is tender.
• Holding potato in a cooking mitten, scoop out center in put into bowl, leaving a 1/4 inch thick shell.
• Add cheese, cream, sugar, cinnamon and pepper.
• Mash with a potato masher until will blended.
• Sprinkle inside of shells very lightly with sea salt, if desired.
• Spoon potato mixture evenly between 4 shells.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until potatoes are heated throughout.