These chorizo and chicken stuffed sweet potatoes are easy to prepare ahead of time for a healthy, quick and delicious weeknight meal. Paleo, Whole30, and sugar detox friendly plus packed with protein, veggies, and savory, sweet, and spicy flavors!
I’m the worst. Here I am trying to tell you all these wonderful things about my stuffed sweet potatoes while my brain has already fast forwarded to planning fall recipes and licking pumpkin spice everything off my walls. Because I have no shame about my obnoxious love for pumpkin spice. And apple spice and just the spiciness of fall in general. I love fall, it’s my thing and why shouldn’t we bathe in our favorite spice combos if we want to?
My kids are the same, since kids tend to feed off of their parents’ excitement, and they’ve already described to me in detail a few of their own fall recipe creations. Too bad they can’t bring those recipes to life on their own yet, but when they can that will be a special, special day for everyone. And by everyone I mean me, assuming they let me have a big piece of whatever they’re making.
On the list so far for fall, my kids have requested 1) Pumpkin pie fudge 2) September shake (something involving apples, pears, and cinnamon) and 3) Apple cinnamon waffles. The pressure is on, but I think I can deliver. Although as you know I don’t make promises, so maybe just forget you read any of that while we segue back to the overstuffed sweet potato awesomeness.
As often as you see me roasting potatoes and sweet potatoes, you probably never see me baking them whole. I would say it’s because I typically find them boring cooked that way, but I’m going to call myself on that and say that it’s because I MAKE them boring when I bake them, out of laziness and lack of creativity. Until now. This time I got it right and did not waste any time on a boring baked sweet potato before stuffing it silly with things I love – chorizo, chicken, and spinach. There was a good deal of ghee involved too because butter makes everything better, and clarified butter makes everything even more better 😉 I tried to think of a cl-clever word for that line but nothing happened. I will forget about it (I WILL forget about it!) and move on to the recipe!
Chorizo and Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes {Paleo}
Ingredients
- 2 med-large or 4 small sweet potatoes whole and pre-baked (I baked mine at 400 degrees for 1 hour, skin pierced with a fork and wrapped in foil)
- 2 cups cooked chicken meat either cubed or shredded. Leftovers work well! I used white meat but you can use any combo you like.
- 1 link chorizo sausage pre-cooked (I bought precooked links at Whole Foods)
- 1/2 cup frozen chopped spinach defrosted and water squeezed out. Alternatively you can use 2 cups of fresh baby spinach, chopped.
- 3 tbsp of grassfed ghee clarified butter or grassfed/pastured butter
- 1 tsp brown or dijon mustard
- Thinly sliced green onions for garnish
Instructions
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Heat oven to 350 degrees to reheat your previously baked sweet potatoes if they need reheating. They can heat up while you make the stuffing mixture.
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In a medium saucepan, add 2 tbsp of the ghee and heat over medium.
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Dice your chorizo into small pieces and add to the pan with ghee to brown.
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After a minute or two of browning, add the cubed or shredded cooked chicken meat plus the spinach to the saucepan and stir to heat through.
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Add the remaining tbsp ghee plus the mustard, stir to combine, and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
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Stir and remove from heat. Now it's time to stuff the sweet potatoes! Cut each potato down the center enough to open it up and allow room for the filling. Distribute the stuffing equally between the potatoes (if you used large ones, one will be enough for 2 servings.) Garnish with lots of green onion!
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Once all the chorizo-chicken mixture is used up, you're ready to serve! Dig in! (Literally dig in, it's yummy that way!!)
Recipe Notes
I included the time to bake the sweet potatoes in the "prep" time but if the baking is done ahead of time, the cook time from start to finish is under 15 minutes!
What are your favorite potato toppings? Sweet potato toppings?
Finish this sentence: “Clarified butter makes everything ____”
Who’s getting excited to lick pumpkin spice off the walls?
You know I love my sweet potatoes and absolutely make a meal out of them like, every night! lol. I think we need to return to the mall for potatopia so that we can each order a loaded sweet potato! I am sort of ready for pumpkin and apple everything, I don’t know, the summer went too fast.
Yes, potatopia! Loaded potatoes are awesome 🙂 I agree summer flew by, yet somehow I’m ready to say goodbye and move on.
This is a great idea! I am not really a fan of chorizo but I think I could just leave that out. I could definitely see myself making a big batch of these and using leftovers for lunch during the week!
Yup, you could leave it out and throw in a favorite spice or something! Versatile recipe, you could do anything 🙂
I could simply eat a sweet potato with cinnamon and butternut squash and call it a day. Can you tell I’m in full swing fall?
I want butternut, it’s been too long!
You don’t want me to finish the clarified butter statement. It won’t end well, sadly. I love chorizo, I wish my stomach loved sausages! But I have some soy chorizo that I’ve had frozen forever, and that might work. LOVE me some stuffed sweet potatoes!
Anything with a little spice and flavor will have the same effect 🙂 Loaded potatoes are awesome!
I have made this stuffed with sauté of chopped baby boy Choy, zuchinni, little bison meatballs, and a very light ginger(small amount fresh grated)’ mild curry spices. My husband thought it was awesome. The zucchini Carmelized in the ghee and the book chit is such a pleasant, mild veggie. Have also made it with sautéed Granny Smith Apple, kale and protein of your choice. Can’t wait till fall, but as my friend said fall means tow degrees is lurking around the corner!!! Ugh! I told her not to be so negative. Let me know if you want to do a fall dinner. Would LOVE to see you!!! Going away and will be back by the time your children are acclimated back in school. LETS DO IT!
I love anything caramelized in ghee! Delicious! And yes, a dinner date sounds wonderful 🙂
you always seem to combine my favorite foods. and now i need to buy more chorizo. Because let’s face it, it’s the best meat to stuff things into. haha, right? <3
Absolutely! You know how I feel about it 🙂
I’m with you on wanting all things pumpkin spice and apple spice right now. Fall spices are the best! Everything about this stuffed sweet potto is amazing. I could live off sweet potatoes.
Me too, and I do live off of them I guess you could say!
I was actually COLD (I live in Tennessee… this is not normal) on my run this morning, which means pumpkin spice everything is on its way! This sounds like my kind of recipe I love stuffing sweet potato with anything and everything. I’m equal parts ashamed and proud of myself for still not having tried ghee after eating paleo for about 9 months now. I want it so bad, but cannot for the life of me bring myself to buy it because of the price!
Wow, that’s nice, I want to be COLD! Too bad we still have 90’s here next week, although it looks like mid 60’s for my run tomorrow assuming I leave early enough. Ghee is expensive, it’s definitely a splurge!
I just put pumpkin spice in my smoothie last night – it was delicious!!! And I love loaded sweet potatoes.. I usually top with faux meat, scallions, peppers, and sometime zucchini! Basically a sweet potato bowl for all the yummy veggies left in my fridge 🙂
Yum! Scallions peppers and zucchini sound good. I love just mixing together anything and everything delicious 🙂
And you know what’s good, pouring some pumpkin spice on a baked sweet 😉 And if you add some maple syrup and almond butter…BAM…fall breakfast 😉
YUM that sounds great. You know I love maple syrup!