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Sweet potatoes Recipes

10 recipes with sweet potatoes for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

10 recipes

Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowls with sweet potato, black beans and avocado — USA recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowls

Cubed sweet potatoes roasted at high heat until the edges caramelize, served over cilantro-lime rice with spiced black beans, avocado, and a quick chili-lime crema. About 14g of fiber and 16g of protein per bowl. Good warm, good cold, holds four days in the fridge — one of the few meal-prep recipes that actually tastes better by day three.

45 min490 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Hot Honey Bowl with sweet potatoes, lean ground turkey and cottage cheese — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Hot Honey Bowl

Roasted sweet potato, taco-seasoned ground turkey, cottage cheese, avocado, and a generous drizzle of hot honey. A bowl that sounds questionable until you try it. Cold cottage cheese against warm sweet potato and meat, the sweet heat of the honey on top — it works in a way that is hard to explain before the first bite. One of the most shared high-protein meals on TikTok for a reason.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl with sweet potatoes, lean ground turkey and cottage cheese — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl

Taco-spiced ground turkey, roasted sweet potato cubes, cottage cheese, avocado, and kimchi or pickled red onion. The kimchi is not optional if you want the bowl to work — the acid cuts through the fat and sweetness and pulls everything together.

35 min510 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Fall Veggie Hot Honey Bowl with sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts and lean ground turkey — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Fall Veggie Hot Honey Bowl

Roasted sweet potato and Brussels sprouts, ground turkey with warm autumn spices, cottage cheese, avocado, and a maple Dijon drizzle — or hot honey if you want to keep it simple. The Brussels sprouts are the key: roasted cut-side down at high heat, they caramelize at the edges and become nutty and faintly sweet.

40 min495 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Tex-Mex Cottage Cheese Bowl with sweet potatoes, lean ground beef or turkey and canned black beans — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Tex-Mex Cottage Cheese Bowl

Taco-seasoned ground beef or turkey, roasted sweet potato, black beans, cottage cheese, avocado, salsa, and hot honey. The black beans are not decoration — they add serious fiber and protein while absorbing the taco-spiced meat juices. This bowl keeps you full longer than most.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Sweet & Spicy Garlic Bowl with sweet potatoes, lean ground turkey and cottage cheese — USA recipe

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Sweet & Spicy Garlic Bowl

Sweet potato with paprika and cinnamon, ground turkey with garlic and warm spices, cottage cheese, avocado, and garlic hot honey. Garlic appears three times here — in the sweet potato seasoning, in the turkey, and in the honey drizzle. That repetition is intentional.

35 min505 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

One-Skillet Sweet Potato Turkey Bowl with sweet potatoes, lean ground turkey and baby spinach — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

One-Skillet Sweet Potato Turkey Bowl

Ground turkey, sweet potato, spinach, and bell pepper — all cooked in one skillet on the stovetop, no oven needed. The sweet potato steams under a lid with a splash of broth while the turkey browns. Top with cold cottage cheese, avocado, and hot honey. The fastest version in this bowl series.

30 min490 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Spiced Butternut-Sweet Potato Bowl with butternut squash, sweet potatoes and lean ground turkey — USA recipe

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Spiced Butternut-Sweet Potato Bowl

Roasted butternut squash and sweet potato together, ground turkey with warm autumn spices, cottage cheese, avocado, and hot honey. The gentlest bowl in this series. Sweet potato holds its shape and caramelizes at the edges; squash softens into something almost melting. Together they make a base that is richer and more layered than either one alone.

40 min490 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Streusel with sweet potatoes, pecans and eggs — USA recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Streusel

This sweet potato casserole has a soft, custardy center under a crisp pecan streusel. Roasting the potatoes instead of boiling them keeps the filling concentrated rather than watery, while modest sugar leaves room for their own caramel flavor. It belongs beside a holiday roast, but it is balanced enough to eat as a vegetable side rather than dessert.

110 min515 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Daigaku Imo (Japanese Candied Sweet Potatoes) with sweet potato, sesame seeds and soy sauce — Japan recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Daigaku Imo (Japanese Candied Sweet Potatoes)

Daigaku imo (大学芋, literally "university potato") is a Japanese snack and bento side of bite-size sweet potato pieces fried until crisp at the edges, then coated in a thin, glossy syrup of sugar, mirin and soy sauce and finished with black sesame. Where the name comes from is not settled: there are several stories, most of them about students, and none is proven. The potatoes are fried in a shallow layer of oil rather than deep-fried, slowly at first so the middle turns soft and sweet, then hotter for a crisp skin. The syrup takes about three minutes and sets into a thin shell as it cools. Active time is about 35 minutes including a 10-minute soak, and the pieces rest another 5 minutes on parchment. Serves four as a snack or a bento side.

35 min220 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌿Vegetarian

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avocados lean ground turkey cottage cheese black beans avocado lime hot honey lean ground beef or turkey garlic cloves honey baby spinach eggs