Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

"This Peruvian recipe comes from Recipes4us.co.uk. I've not tried it yet, but it reads like my kind of food!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat the oven to 200C, 400F, gas mark 6.
  • Prick the skins of the sweet potatoes all over with a fork, place on a baking tray (they will ooze a sticky syrup whilst cooking) and bake in the oven for about 45 minutes or until tender.
  • While the potatoes are baking, mix together the cream cheese, egg yolk, chilli powder, spring onions and seasoning in a bowl; towards the end of the cooking time, preheat the grill to hot.
  • When baked, cut the sweet potatoes in half lengthways and, keeping the skins intact, scoop the flesh from the sweet potatoes and add to the cream cheese mixture.
  • Stir all the ingredients together, then stuff the mixture back into the skins.
  • Dot the tops with butter, sprinkle with extra chilli powder then brown potatoes under the hot grill; serve immediately.

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Reviews

  1. Wasn't sure I was going to like these but I did. Went great with Recipe #236034.
     
  2. These were wonderful and a nice change from plain baked sweet potatoes.
     
  3. Wow. This was really, really, really, really good. Well worth the effort to make. Next time I am going to add Feta cheese to the "filling" to give it an extra kick. I also did not add sugar as the potatoes are sweet enough for me. Thank you so much for posting.
     
  4. Outstanding flavor. Sweet, hot, cool and savory. I made this recipe as directed, using butter spray instead of butter. Also, I used New Mexican Chimayo chile powder which gave a sweet/hot kick. I thoroughly enjoyed this recipe and will definately make it again. Thanks so much for posting.
     
  5. I prefer no added sugar in sweet potatoes as I think they are sweet enough so your recipe was right up my alley. The only change I made was to use fat free cream cheese and cooking spray instead of butter. Thank you for sharing your recipe!
     
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  1. I prefer no added sugar in sweet potatoes as I think they are sweet enough so your recipe was right up my alley. The only change I made was to use fat free cream cheese and cooking spray instead of butter. Thank you for sharing your recipe!
     

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