25+ Healthy & Delicious Sweet Potato Recipes
Sweet potatoes are a delicious, healthy, and versatile veggie that can easily be enjoyed sweet or savory. And these sweet potato recipes are going to help you enjoy this beautiful root vegetable in everything from smoothies and muffins to sheet pan and skillet dinners!
Do you have a bag of beautiful sweet potato in your fridge or pantry, but you are feeling a bit lost on how to put them to use? I hear ya! I love sweet potatoes, but I need to shake it up a bit in how I eat them so that I don’t get sweet potato burnout (its a thing, TNNers).
Okay. I’m convinced. Let’s sweet potato-load all the foods!
Awesome! I’m glad we are on the same page!
Here is a collection of some of my favorite recipes using the amazing and beautiful sweet potato! A little something for everyone and all the meals….including dessert!
Go on! And veggie-load you life!
Breakfast healthy sweet potato recipes
Creamy 5-Minute Sweet Potato Smoothie
This sweet potato smoothie is creamy, beautifully thick, and packed with cozy flavor. Made with cooked or canned sweet potato, banana, cinnamon, peanut butter, and Greek yogurt, it blends up in about five minutes for an easy veggie-loaded breakfast smoothie or snack.
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Sweet Potato Chocolate Peanut Butter Overnight Oats
These Sweet Potato Chocolate Peanut Butter Overnight Oats are the perfect easy breakfast to throw together and take on the go. Perfectly sweet, veggie-loaded, and a classic flavor combo, this no-cook recipe will be a favorite.
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Fluffy Whole Wheat Sweet Potato Muffins
Fluffy, moist, and just-sweet-enough…these sweet potato muffins are always such a win. Made with whole wheat flour, a little Greek yogurt and lower in added sugar than most recipes, they’re the perfect veggie-loaded addition to your breakfast or snack rotation.
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Crustless Spinach Sweet Potato Quiche
This Crustless Spinach Sweet Potato Quiche recipe is the perfect, easy vegetarian breakfast. With the combination of potatoes, spinach, onion and goat cheese, it is a delicious way to eat more veggies. Naturally gluten free and great for meal prep.
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Flourless Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Muffins
Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Muffins are easy peasy to whip up, are surprisingly flourless and a delicious way to get feel-good sweet potato into your family’s bellies. Paired with delicious peanut butter and made with just 8 simple ingredients, these muffins make the perfect addition to any breakfast or are a hearty snack.
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Mini Sweet Potato Pancakes
These mini Sweet Potato Pancakes are made with simple, feel-good ingredients you probably already have, are naturally sweetened, the perfect size for little eaters and are a delicious way to get veggies in at breakfast.
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25-Minute Sweet Potato Black Bean Quesadillas
This Black Bean Sweet Potato Quesadilla recipe is easy to make, loaded with flavor, and is full of healthy ingredients. Vegetarian and easily gluten free, this is a simple veggie meal that is always a crowd pleaser!
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One-Skillet Sweet Potato + Kale Hash
This Skillet Sweet Potato Kale Hash is perfect for a hearty-meets-veggie-loaded breakfast. Sweet potatoes, kale, bell peppers, and a punchy spice mix come together with eggs for that perfect bite. It’s ready in 20 minutes and basically made for slow weekend mornings or those “breakfast-for-dinner” kind of nights.
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Apple Sweet Potato Baked Oatmeal
Cozy, warm, and full of seasonal flavors, this Apple Sweet Potato Baked Oatmeal is the perfect breakfast to wake up with. Veggie-loaded with amazing sweet potato and brought next level with sweet apple and warm spices, this baked oatmeal can easily be vegan and gluten-free.
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Healthy sweet potato side dishes
35-Minute Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes (Whole Sweet Potatoes)
No peeling! No chopping! Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes are such an easy and quick way to cook-up whole sweet potatoes. Fork tender, delicious, simple, and done in about 30 minutes—the perfect healthy vegetable side dish to any dinner.
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15-Minute Skillet Sweet Potatoes
Skillet sweet potatoes are my not-fancy, really-good weekday side: 4 ingredients, one pan, and about 15 minutes on the stove. Make a batch for dinner and enjoy the leftovers with eggs the next morning!
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Easy Baked Sweet Potatoes
These Baked Sweet Potatoes are literally the *easiest* thing to make! Minimal prep, just one ingredient (sweet potatoes!) and done baking in about an hour, these fluffy + perfectly cooked sweet potatoes are perfect to enjoy in so many ways.
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Sweet Potato Tots
These delicious and healthy Sweet Potato Tots are a delicious finger food to add to your life! Gluten free, plant based, and nut free….they are going to be a new favorite veggie side!
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Main dish healthy sweet potato recipes
Turkey Sweet Potato Shepherds’s Pie
This Turkey Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie is loaded with vegetables and protein. The ground turkey filling is cooked with an easy flavorful gravy and mixed with easy frozen veggies. Topped with fluffy mashed sweet potatoes and then oven-baked, this is the perfect healthy and comforting weeknight dinner. Perfect as part of meal prep and easily gluten free and/or dairy-free.
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35 Minute Ground Turkey & Sweet Potato Taco Skillet
This easy one-pan dinner recipe is perfect for when you’re short on time, but looking for a dinner idea that’s satisfying. In 35 minutes, it combines ground turkey and sweet potato cubes with black beans, spinach, and salsa, creating a simple but hearty meal. Top with cilantro, sour cream, and avocado, and enjoy!
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Sweet Potato + Salmon Poppers
These Sweet Potato Salmon Poppers are the weeknight win you didn’t know you needed. Made with canned salmon, mashed sweet potato, and the loveliest blend of herbs and spices, they mix up fast, crisp up like a dream, and somehow disappear just as quickly. Total hit with kids and grown-ups. Quick, satisfying, and kind of addictive… because let’s be real, veggie-loaded finger food just hits different.
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Instant Pot Black Bean and Sweet Potato Chili
Instant Pot Black Bean & Sweet Potato Chili is an easy, healthy and delicious dinner! This cozy soup is gluten free, vegan and family-friendly.
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Sweet Potato Sausage Skillet with Apples
This sweet potato sausage skillet brings together diced sweet potatoes, tender apples, and browned chicken sausage in one pan, in about 30 minutes. It's savory with just a little sweetness, and the perfect low-lift weeknight dinner.
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20-Minute Sheet Pan Sausage with Sweet Potatoes & Veggies
This Sheet Pan Sausage and Veggies recipe is going to be your new favorite easy dinner! Sweet potato, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, and your favorite sausage all seasoned to perfection and roasted up in just 20 minutes on one pan.
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Sweet potato dessert recipes
Double Chocolate Sweet Potato Frosting (Vegan)
This Chocolate Sweet Potato Frosting is smooth, creamy, and totally decadent! Made with cooked sweet potato, melted chocolate chips, cocoa powder, and a touch of maple syrup, it’s the perfect topper for any cupcake (especially my chocolate sweet potato ones!). You’d never guess it’s vegan and dairy-free—it’s that good. Ready in only 10 minutes.
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Sweet Potato Chickpea Blondies
These Sweet Potato Chickpea Blondies are easy to make and are always a crowd pleaser. Made from pureed cooked sweet potatoes + canned chickpeas (that, no you can't taste!), they are the perfect snack or sweet treat that is full of feel-good ingredients.
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Sweet Potato Peanut Butter Balls
This Sweet Potato Peanut Butter Ball recipe is a healthier twist on a classic holiday treat. Made with just a few simple and easy-to-find ingredients, they taste so much like a “buckeye cookie."
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Moist Chocolate Sweet Potato Cupcakes
These Chocolate Sweet Potato Cupcakes are rich, moist and the perfect sweet treat. Mixed all in one bowl, naturally sweetened, and done in 20 minutes, these cupcakes are dairy-free and easily gluten free. Top them with rich sweet potato frosting for an extra decadent dessert.
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Sweet Potato Banana Bread
Super moist texture, the perfect balance of natural sweetness, and studded with chocolate chips, this sweet potato banana bread is quick to become a favorite. Easy to make and lighter on sugar than most banana bread recipes. Perfect for a healthier dessert or fun snack option.
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Paleo Sweet Potato Brownies
Fudgy and delicious, these one-bowl Sweet Potato Brownies are super easy to make! Packing good-for-you sweet potatoes, you are going to be dazzled that these bites of heaven are also Paleo, gluten free and dairy-free.
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Blueberry Sweet Potato Bread
Made from whole grains and naturally sweetened, this Healthy Blueberry Sweet Potato Bread is a delicious breakfast, snack or treat. Mixed together in one bowl and into the oven it goes, this recipe will be a new family favorite!
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