Twice Baked Sweet Potato
Ingredients
- 3 Sweet Potatoes
- ⅓ cup Half & Half or Heavy Cream
- ¼ cup Sour Cream
- 1 whole Lemon juiced (~2 tbsp)
- 1 cup White Cheddar Cheese shredded
- ½ tsp Salt kosher
- ½ tsp Pepper black
- 1 Jalapeno Pepper diced
- 1 Red Bell Pepper diced
- 6-10 slices Bacon diced
- ½ tsp Parsley
Instructions
- Preheat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
- Place sweet potatoes on baking sheet
- Use a fork to place several shallow holes around potato
- Apply olive oil to sweet potato skin
- Sprinkle kosher salt evenly over sweet potato
- Place sweet potato in oven for 45 minutes or until fork can be easily inserted
- While the sweet potato is cooking, dice up 6-10 slices of bacon
- Place diced bacon into a cold pan
- Heat over medium heat until fully rendered (10-15 minutes)
- Set aside bacon once cooked
- Finely dice your jalapeno
- Remove sweet potato from oven and allow to cool enough to be handled
- Cut the sweet potato in half lengthwise
- Scoop out interior (leaving a quarter inch remaining) and add to mixing bowl
- Mix in heavy cream, sour cream, lemon juice, cheese and salt and pepper
- Fold in cooked bacon, diced red bell pepper and jalapeno
- Scoop mixture back into the sweet potato, filling to the top of the shell
- Sprinkle cheese on top and add parsley
- Bake in 400 degree oven for 20 minutes
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving