I have a serious question for you guys.
Does your computer have a smudge of chocolate on the space bar, a tomato stain on the outside case and what I think is yogurt from those Greek Chicken Gyros I made smeared across the track pad? (Seriously, so good, I am pretty sure they were sent down from the Greek gods themselves. Thank you Zeus!)
Come on don’t tell me it is just me. I try to keep my computer clean, like really clean. I cherish the desk it sits on. Really, I LOVE my computer. It’s how I communicate with you guys, it’s how I watch TV, how I read (blogs, at least), how I develop recipe ideas and get inspiration, how I edit photos. I could go on an on, really I could, but my guess is you do not care.
With all the back and forth of being knee-deep in Brownie Batter to needing to check the computer to see how much flour I need, my computer gets a little (ok, a lot) of love from the ingredients. What can I say, my computer knows what tastes good (except of course any liquid. I keep those far, far, far away!).
Did I really just write a whole hundred and seventy words about my computer being covered in food? Ok, wow I am losing it. Sorry, it’s just that I’ve been thinking about my computer a lot lately because I think it may be on it’s way out and the idea of having to replace it terrifies me. File transfers, picture transfers, adapting to a new computer - I don’t have time for all that!
But the idea of it suddenly dying on me terrifies me more. We are at least an hour and a half from the closest Apple store.
Computer paranoia! Ok, stopping now.
I made Sweet Potato Skins. They were legendary. Sweet, spicy and cheesy. Kind of an unexpected hit of flavors, but they are amazingly awesome together!
Oh yeah, and like totally healthy. I know, score!
They’re comfort food, done the healthy way, which of course still includes CHEESE! What is dinner without cheese? You gotta have some cheese!
I mean really, sweet potatoes, chipotle chicken and sharp cheddar cheese. What is there not to love about that?
Ingredients
- 3 medium sweet potatoes
- 3/4 pound (about 2 small) boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1/4 cups olive oil
- 2 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 2 cloves garlic, minced or grated
- 3 whole chipotle pepper, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- salt and pepper
- 2 (half a 10oz bag) cups spinach
- 5 ounces sharp white cheddar cheese, grated
- chopped cilantro, for garnish
- greek yogurt, for serving
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Wash your sweet potatoes and prick all over with a fork. Place in the oven and bake for 50-60 minutes or until fork tender. Place your chicken in a baking dish and rub with a tablespoon of olive oil, salt and peper. Place in the oven with the potatoes and bake for 25 minutes. Allow to cool and shred the chicken with a fork or your hands. When the sweet potatoes are done cut in half and allow to cool for 5-10 minutes.
- In a medium size bowl combine the olive oil, lime juice, garlic, chipotle peppers, oregano, cumin, chili powder, salt and pepper. Set aside.
- Heat a small skillet over medium heat and wilt the spinach (this can also be done in the microwave). Toss the spinach and shredded chicken together, set aside and keep warm.
- Turn the oven up to 400 degrees. Scrape the sweet potato out of the peel, leaving a medium size layer of flesh inside with the peel so that it can stand up on its own (I reserved the remaining flesh, for another use) and place in a baking dish. Brush the skins with with a little of the chipotle sauce and bake for 5-10 muntes until nice and crisp. While the skins bake mix the spinach, chicken and chipotle sauce together. Remove skins from the oven and stuff with the chicken mixture, top with shredded cheese and bake for 10 minutes or until the cheese has melted and the skins are hot and crisp. Serve with fresh chopped cilantro and greek yogurt if desired.
Melted cheese – Yes! Melted down computer – please no!
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You would never want your computer to die without a backup. You can order from Apple.com and I think shipping is free. Not positive but I believe it is. Everything we own is from Apple.
I am so amazed at your cooking skills and your love for it at such a young age. Go girl!!!!
Thank you! And I have my computer backed up on a hard drive and it’s an apple so it works great! We LOVE apple around here!
These look amazing! Beautiful site, stopping by from GYB hop
Why can’t I come up with such awesome recipes? I’m making this TOMORROW…and I don’t even have to go to the supermarket! Thanks hon!
Back in the day, when I first learned about computers, the first rule was ‘No Food Allowed.’ The second rule was ‘No Beverages Allowed.’ I guess that was what is listened to most. To this day, my computer doesn’t get to eat or drink my food. …except once when a grandkid managed to sneak a glass of water in and the promptly spilled it on the keyboard (yes, I had to get a new keyboard).
But, sometimes things like those Sweet Potato Skins are awfully tempting to carry along to nibble on while I check email, etc.
Those look delicious and I love sweet potato anything so I will have to try these! I pinned this on pinterest cause it looked so good! I found you on Thursday blog hop and I’m so glad I did! I’m following you now. check me out on http://www.feelingtheemptynest.blogspot.com when you get a chance
My computer is relatively clean. It is a desk top computer and resides safely across the house from the kitchen. My iPad, on the other hand, is covered in flour and fingerprints of mysterious substances
These potato skins look fantastic! Thanks for a delicious recipe.
These look SO GOOD! I will be making these sometime soon.
Tieghan, these look superb! And I have sweet potatoes in my pantry right now… I think I know what’s for dinner tonight. P.S. Clicked here from the Simply Sweet Home Friday Favorites hop.
Those look amazing!!! I may just have to start cooking!
These look awesome – I love sweet potato so this looks so delish! I know what you mean about your computer by the way – when I use it for recipes it gets much love from the ingredients as well!
Those look so delicious. I love sweet potatoes. Too bad we can’t sample through the screen. Yum!
LOVE, love, love sweet potatoes! YUM! Thanks so much for coming to party at Super Saturday Show & Tell
I hope you’ll come again next week. xoxo~ Ruthie
OH my heavens this looks soooooo good! I’m like drooling over here!! Haha pinning this now!
~Cathy~
Printing!!!!!!! YUM!
Tieghan,
Just wanted to thank you for posting your recipe on Foodie Friends Friday Linky Party and linking the recipe back to us! I have selected your recipe as my host favorite this week.
Your recipe is featured today on my blog, http://adornedwell.blogspot.com/2013/02/foodie-friends-friday-linky-party-33_25.html as well as on Foodie Friends Friday Daily Dish (http://www.foodiefriendsfridaydailydish.com/recipes-that-caught-our-attention-6/). We will also be sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Congratulations!
There is a “Host Favorite” button that you may share on your post or blog if you wish. You can pick up your button here (at the bottom of the page): http://adornedwell.blogspot.com/p/pick-up-my-buttons.html
Kelly {Adorned Well}
co host of Foodie Friends Friday Linky Party
These look just delicious! I am glad I saw them at Show Me Your Plaid. I hope you will come and share them at my party. http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com/blog/whatd-you-do-this-weekend-4/
you are not alone! I have that same problem. Also I want to come eat at your house! Way better food than what I serve! Thanks for linking up at Show Me Your Plaid Monday’s!
These look great.. My family loves sweet potatoes and I’m always looking for new things to do with them. We make baked stuffed potatoes all the time, but I never do it with the sweets.. thanks for the idea!
Thanks so much for linking up to Tasty Thursdays, Tieghan. These look amazing and will be FEATURED on this weeks party. Thanks, Nichi
Yummy! I am trying these asap! Looks & sounds amazing! Love it– and your blog! New follower! =)
These look great. My very big question is —- I was always told that you should not eat sweet potato skins …. I think I missed something ????
I have never heard this. I am pretty sure sweet potato skins are very healthy and delicious. Enjoy!
Hi there. The current Food on Friday on Carole’s Chatter is collecting links to posts about Mexican dishes and flavours. I do hope you link this one in. This is the link . Please do pop back to check out some of the other links – there are a lot of good ones already. Have a great week.
I love sweet potatoes and this one is loaded! Great idea.
Thank you!!
Oh, yummy! I’d love to have you share this at What to do Weekends Party. Take care, Linda
http://www.craftsalamode.com/2013/02/what-to-do-weekends-8.html
Was wondering if anyone has a calorie count on these??? They sound very VERY good and I want to make them soon.
Because you scoop out some of the sweet potato flesh, it’s hard to calculate precisely but I have numbers to give you an idea. I also changed it a bit so this reflects my version:
I used 1 pound of chicken thighs (instead of breasts) and 4 ounces of white cheddar (instead of 5). I also used 4 smaller, long sweet potatoes so it would make 4 servings (my nutrition info reflects using three sweet potatoes, which I figured was a good estimate since you scoop a lot of the flesh out). I cut the chipotle to one and about a tablespoon of adobo sauce.
With those changes, I get the following per serving (recipe serving 4):
427 calories
23g carbs
35g protein
462mg sodium
4g fiber
5g sugar
VERY filling and I like those macro ratios a lot. This will be a regular in our house.
Hey, those are some good stats! Thanks for posting them and I am so glade you loved these!
Haha I love how you wrote more about your computer than the actual theme of this post! It was quite amusing. And I didn’t waste my time since I got what I wanted in the end. Thanks for the recipe! I will try it out as soon as possible.
Made these tonight and LOVED them! Thanks for the recipe! Unusual, but so delicious.
I love how you have made this healthier by using a sweet potato. Just pinned!
Hi,
This looks delish, something my family would like.
Our party is live today, and we would like to invite you to link up and share this: http://thebusybhive.blogspot.com/ We would really appreciate it.
Hope you have a great day!
Thank!
The Busy Bee’s,
Myrna and Joye.
Made this for dinner tonight and it was uh-mazing!! Thank you for posting it, I will definitely be making it again!!
As for calories, I calculated 339 for a whole sweet potato with 1.5 cups of shredded chicken, 1/2 cup of spinach, garlic, jalapeño (no chipotle on hand), and 2% mozzarella on top…no garnish. Delishhhhh!!!
I am so glad you liked it!! And wow these are pretty low cal! Awesome!
Just wanted to let you know that I made these for dinner tonight and WOW!!! I think these are by far, one of the best things I’ve ever made for dinner. SOO GOOD!!! My husband, four year old son, and I loved them. I’m already craving them…too bad my hungry husband ate what I had intended to be my lunch for tomorrow! These will become a dinner regular around here for sure! The flavors are just amazing.
YAY! I am so glad you guys loved them!! I love comments like this! Made my night!!
I made these tonight and they were delicious! I cut back on the chipotle just a bit, but the spice and the sweet of the potato was the perfect compliment.
YES! I am so glad you liked these! Thanks for letting me know!
Oh my goodness, just made these and am OBSESSED!!! Swapped lowest fat mozarella and used an olive oil spray (am weightwatchers), and added chopped bell pepper and courgette (zucchini?!! I’m British!) (didn’t have any spinach). So easy, delicious and great for both treat meal and weekday. Thanks for posting. xx
I am SO glad you like these!! I love all the tweaks you made to to! YUM!
I can’t even explain in words how delicious I thought this was. I totally overstuffed myself because I simply could not stop eating these! They were HOT, but adding some plain greek yogurt and guacamole helped cool things down. The added flavor of the sweet potato was out of this world. YUM!
YES! i am so happy you loved these. Thank you so much for letting me know! I need to make these again!
I made these tonight for dinner and they were amazing! Great recipe.
I don’t normally take the time to post comments, but these were so good I had to!
Well thank you!! I loving hearing from readers and I am so glad you loved these!!
I just loved these! They were so delicious and healthy. I used chipotle powder in place of the peppers because that’s what I had on hand. I used about 1/2 tsp. Thanks for the great recipe!
I am so glad you love these! What a smart swap using the chipotle powder! Thanks so much for giving these a try and letting me no you loved them!
Thanks for sharing this sweet potato recipe on my FB page ~ it looks great!
Hmm?? I do not think I did share this on your FB page, but I am glad you like it! LOL
Suns shinning bright here in Frisco, hope you are having the same weather in Telluride!