§03 · Dinner · stuffed-sweet-potato
Revised Jul 2026 · 1 revisionStuffed Sweet Potatoes
A soft-baked sweet potato split open over warm-spiced crispy chickpeas, wilted spinach, and a garlicky lemon-tahini drizzle, finished with a scatter of pepitas. The oven does the work — barely any cleanup.
Ingredients
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- Sweet Potato 4 520 g
- Chickpeas 1 can (15 oz) 253 g
- Frozen Spinach 1 cup 85 g
- Tahini 3 tbsp 45 g
- Bottled Lemon Juice 2 tbsp 30 g
- Garlic 1 clove 3 g
- Cumin 1 tsp 2.1 g
- Ground Coriander 1 tsp 1.8 g
- Smoked Paprika 1 tsp 2.2 g
- Cinnamon ½ tsp 1.2 g
- Pepitas ¼ cup 32 g
- Extra-Virgin Olive Oil 2 tbsp 27 g
- Sea Salt to taste to taste
Method
- Heat the oven to 425°F. Prick the 4520 g sweet potatoes and bake directly on the rack 40–45 minutes until collapsing-soft.
- Meanwhile, toss the 1 can (15 oz)253 g chickpeas, drained and rinsed with the 2 tbsp27 g olive oil, 1 tsp2.1 g cumin, 1 tsp1.8 g coriander, 1 tsp2.2 g smoked paprika, and ½ tsp1.2 g cinnamon; roast on a sheet pan 20 minutes until crisp. Warm the 1 cup85 g frozen spinach through at the end.
- Whisk the 3 tbsp45 g tahini, 2 tbsp30 g lemon juice, 1 clove3 g garlic, minced, and salt, to taste with a little water until pourable.
- Split each potato, pile on the chickpeas and spinach, drizzle with the sauce, and scatter the ¼ cup32 g pepitas over the top for crunch.
Kids: serve the sweet potato mashed with a little of the tahini sauce stirred in, with the chickpeas and pepitas on the side.
Dietary
- Gluten free
- Tree nut free
- Peanut free
- Soy free
- Sesame contains
Nutrition
Vitamins & minerals
Change log · 1 revision
- 14 Jul 2026
FoundThe 657-review baked sweet potato tosses its chickpeas in a four-spice blend and finishes with pumpkin seeds; ours used only two of the spices and had no crunch.
ChangedAdded coriander and cinnamon to the chickpea toss to complete the blend and scattered pepitas on top for protein and texture, and corrected the summary's one-pan claim since the method uses a rack and a sheet.
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