Do you dream of potatoes with a creamy dressing yet think it won’t be good for you? Guess what?! We have the healing recipe for Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Creamy Avocado Dressing. This amazing dish is full of ingredients your body will love.
LoveSelf’s inspiring person, Andrea, created this recipe for LoveSelf. She healed from the worst of life’s tragedies, lost 175 pounds, and is a self love inspiration to us all.
Twice Baked Sweet Potato with Creamy Avocado Dressing
Ingredients
Twice Baked Sweet Potato
- 2 organic sweet potatoes
- 2 tablespoons organic butter or ghee melted, plus an additional table-spoon for brushing the skins
- 1/4 cup of your favorite nut milk
- sea salt and pepper to taste
Creamy Avocado Dressing
- 2 avocados, halved, pitted and scooped from skin
- juice from half of a lime
- 1 large clove of garlic, grated
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons raw honey
- 2 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped fine
- 1/2 cup of organic olive oil, you may need to add a little more if dressing is too thick.
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
Twice Baked Sweet Potato
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Wash sweet potatoes, dry and poke several hole in skin with fork
- Place sweet potatoes in oven and bake until just soft to the touch. Approximately 15 to 20 minutes depending on size
- Set aside until cool enough to handle
- Once cool, cut sweet potatoes in half lengthwise
- Gently scoop the flesh from the center of each half into a medium sized bowl, leaving an 1/8 of an inch of the flesh on the skin.
- Place potato skins on a sheet pan. Brush melted butter/ghee on flesh.
- Bake for an additional 7 minutes
- While skins are in oven, add the 2 tablespoons butter/ghee, almond milk, salt and pepper into the bowl with the sweet potato flesh.
- With a hand blender, mix until well mashed and slightly fluffy.
- Remove skins from oven.
- Divide mashed sweet potato into four equal por-tions and stuff skins. Brush with remaining butter/ghee.
- Return to the oven for a final 15 minutes to bake.
Creamy Avocado Dressing
- Place all ingredients, except oil, into a blender.
- Pulse until ingredients start to come together and form a paste.
- Scrape sides of blender with a spatula.
- Turn blender on low, slowly drizzle oil into the paste. You will see the dressing become creamy.
- Once all the oil is add to the dressing, turn off the blender, taste to see if you would like to add any more salt, pepper or honey.
- Cover, blend on high for one minute. This will add air and make if extra creamy.
- Remove sweet potatoes from oven and add a dollop of dressing on top.
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