Black Beans & Baked Sweet Potato Recipe

Tasty Baked Sweet Potato Recipe

I absolutely love sweet potatoes and black beans.  I usually just put black beans on a sweet potato and eat it up but this sounds a lot tastier.

Baked Sweet Potatoes with Black Beans

Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 15oz can black beans, rinsed
  • 4 medium-sized sweet potatoes, scrubbed
  • 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 medium tomatoes, diced
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • ¾ tsp salt
  • ¼ cup reduced-fat sour cream (or plain Greek yogurt)
  • ¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped

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National Potato Day

According to The Online Recipe Box, today, October 27th is National Potato Day.

Although I like both regular baked potatoes and sweet potatoes, I want to give the sweet potato some love.

Sweet Potato

Sweet potatoes, sometimes called yams are very healthy for you

  • Rich in beta-carotene and packed with fiber
  • A sweet potato has almost 1/3 of the Vitamin C you need for one day
  • The sweet potato has a variety of skin and flesh colors. You are probably most familiar with the brown skin and orange flesh
  • Many other health benefits

I like my sweet potato grilled or baked in the oven although I really wanted one for lunch one day and just popped it into the microwave and it turned out great. You can make a wide variety of foods with sweet potatoes like soup, mashed potatoes, pies and more. I personally like baked whole sweet potatoes (minus the skin) and oven baked or grilled sweet potato fries. Yum, yum!

Do you like sweet potatoes? What is your favorite way to eat one?