Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
The glitter has settled from the holiday season. There are no more sprinkles to put on top of sinful salted caramel chocolate chip butter bars. In fact, I’m swearing off cookie bars for a little while. You know too much of a good thing and all that. Though, I ask you, can there ever be too much salted caramel anything?
Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
While I say no, my jeans beg to differ. In fact the only way I’m getting the skinnies to button these days is using the trick I used when I was pregnant. Sliding a hair tie over the button and through the button hole and hiding it with a long shirt.
We all have our dirty little secrets. This is mine. Well, I guess it’s really not a secret anymore.
Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
But after all the Christmas treats and all the delightful fall comfort food, it seems cruel to jump on the New Years Let’s Eat Healthy Bandwagon and only eat things that are salady. Especially in January in the northeast. Now don’t get me wrong, in the warmer weather, I love me a good salad like this awesome Thai Chicken Salad. But in January? Well, I pretty much want to crawl under all the blankets and eat cheese fries.
You know you do too. It’s ok. I don’t judge.
Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
With these healthy loaded sweet potato fries, you totally can do that with absolute zero guilt. Not only are they the meal version of these healthy sweet potato fries, but they are pretty much the fry version of salad. Stay with me here.
Salads are big plates of veggies, right? Right. Glad you agree. Well, these loaded sweet potato fries are basically a giant plate of veggies- sweet potatoes, black beans, cherry tomatoes, red onion, jalapeno. See? Salad!
Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
Just like it’s healthy to dress a salad with a bit of heart healthy olive oil (I’m so saying EVOO in my head. Way too much Rachel Ray going on over here!), the sweet potato fries are tossed in a little olive oil. We have a splash of lime to complete the “fry vinaigrette.” And I went easy on the cheese instead of dumping on a whole bag of shredded cheese as I’m apt to.
The result? Perfection. Loaded sweet potato cheese fries that won’t further the mutiny my skinny jeans are currently throwing that are vegetarian, gluten free, and toddler approved.
Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
Yep. That’s right. Goose actually did more than lick these and throw them on the floor as she’s been so prone to do lately. She picked out all the black beans on her plate and ate them one by one. Then followed with the tomatoes and the cheese.
Winning.
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Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 2 large dinner portions or 4 side dishes 1x
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Pin RecipeDescription
Healthy Baked Sweet Potato Cheese Fries
Ingredients
For the fries
- 2 large sweet potatoes
- 3 tbs olive oil
- 1 tbs chili powder
- 1/2 tbs cumin
- salt and pepper to taste
For the toppings
- 1 1/2 cups of black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 pint of cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/3 of a red onion, chopped
- 1 jalapeno, chopped*
- 1 clove of garlic, crushed
- Fresh cilantro to taste
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 cup of shredded cheddar or cheddar jack cheese
- 1 avocado
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400.
- Cut sweet potatoes into fry shapes. Toss in olive oil and spices. Spread out on a cookie sheet covered with foil and sprayed with nonstick spray. Bake for 20-22 minutes. Flip and bake for an addition 20 minutes.
- While the fries are baking, drain and rinse black beans and chop the onion, jalapeno, and tomatoes. Add the beans and chopped veggies to a small bowl. Season with the juice of 1 lime, 1 tsp chili powder, and crushed garlic clove.
- When the fries come out of the oven, top with the veggie mix and sprinkle with cheese. Return to oven and bake for 3-5 minutes or until the cheese melts.
- Garnish with avocado and fresh cilantro if desired.
Notes
omit jalapeno, cilantro, and avocado if desired
- Category: vegetarian
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 large dinner portions or 4 side dishes
These look awesome! Want to dig in!
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Love sweet potato! Fabulous recipe to try out 🙂
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Oh wow… this looks so yummy! I’m always looking for new ways to incorporate more sweet potatoes in our meals.
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Those look amazing! Love the spicy with the avocado!
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These look so good! Definitely going to try these!
Thanks Meghann!
Wow! These looks amazing! I love nachos, but sweet potatoes might make a healthy substitute for tortilla chips.
Totally would. I’m thinking about doing another version of these with the sweet potatoes cut into chips 🙂
Oh my yum, this looks and sounds amazing!
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What a great tip for your jeans! Sometimes you just need a little extra room but don’t want to buy new jeans. And these fries look amazing! I am a sucker for sweet potato fries but never thought to make them into loaded fries. Love this idea!
Buying new jeans is next to torture for me. I almost never do it. I would rather shop for bathing suits and don’t love that either. So yes, that hair tie trick gets A LOT of use here. Thanks for stopping by and reading!
A healthy plate of fries? Sign me up! These look amazing! Also, no — you can’t have too much salted caramel anything LOL
I know right? Sounds too good to be true!
And salted caramel EVERYTHING 🙂
Yup, this is my kind of dish. Looks absolutely amazing and makes me feel rather hungry!
Thanks Katrin!
Oh my word! These look incredible!!!!!!! I am literally marking down the ingredients so I can make them tonight (is it bad to be thinking about dinner so early in the day!? HA)
Never too early to think about dinner! I am too. ::tummy rumbles:: Let me know how they come out! I hope you love them!
I’m such a sucker for sweet potatoes & sweet potato fries. I order them on any restaurant menu. These look great and i can make them at home too!
This looks incredible and SUCH a great idea!!!
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This looks amazing!!!!
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This looks so super tasty! I love everything on this plate!! Okay, maybe I would pass on the jalapenos, but everything else?…yes, please!
I know! The more you pile on, the better the food, right?
These look so yummy! I find sweet potatoes/yams hard to cut when raw. Is there a trick to it? Thanks!
What kind of knife are you using?
These look amazing for any day but especially Super Bowl snacking!
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These look delicious. A wonderful dish to share and dig in to!
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This looks so incredibly good!
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Yes! Oh my! This looks so good. I love sweet potato fries, so topping it with all the yummies sounds like the best meal!
Such a satisfying meal!
These look incredible! Pinning and saving for later! 🙂
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Yum! This looks delicious! I’m not usually a fan of sweet potatoes, but I think I may like these.
Have you ever tried savory sweet potatoes instead of sweet sweet potatoes? I am not a fan of sweet potato casserole- you know with marshmallows. But I love them when they are savory and slightly spicy.
Those totally pass for a salad 🙂 Looks so yummy!
Right???
Oh Yumm! I love that this is filled with protein and looks super yummy I can’t wait to try this.
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Crawl under the covers and eat cheese fries — LOL. Girl, I live in Michigan. I get you. These loaded sweet potato fries look even better than cheese fries though!
Right? It’s my winter MO.
These look amazing! I’ll be pinning it and saving it for later since I’ll be doing a vegan fast starting tomorrow. Ah!
XOXO, Amaris
Whoa! Good luck on your fast! You could make them without the cheese.
This looks so good! I could pick at that all night!
Exactly!
Yum! These look so amazing!! I would probably eat the whole plate!
Haha me too!
Those look delicious! I love sweet potatoes!
Thank you!