American
Southwest Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Southwest Stuffed Sweet Potatoes is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 sweet potatoes
- 15 oz canned black beans
- 1 cup corn kernels
- 1 avocado
- 1 lime
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 425F, prick the sweet potatoes all over, and roast until tender, about 45 minutes.
- Warm the black beans and corn in a skillet with the olive oil, cumin, and chili powder, about 5 minutes, then season with salt.
- Mash the avocado with the lime juice and a pinch of salt.
- Split the roasted sweet potatoes lengthwise and fluff the insides with a fork.
- Fill each with the black bean and corn mixture.
- Top with the mashed avocado and a scatter of cilantro and serve.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Southwest Stuffed Sweet Potatoes, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Southwest Stuffed Sweet Potatoes carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables and Pulses
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Southwest Stuffed Sweet Potatoes takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on sweet potato, bean, and avocado.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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