Sweet Potato Boats
Sweet potato boats are a fun and creative way to make a meal! This is another great recipe to get kids involved with. It’s also a great meal for our new eaters as its texture and consistencies can be easily modified to be eaten by both our new and veteran eaters!
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Health Benefit: Sweet potatoes are full of wonderful nutrients such as beta-carotene (which later converts to vitamin A) – important for our eyes, vitamin C – important for our immunity and potassium – important for fluid balance and muscle contractions. It is also a great complex carbohydrate to provide healthy fuel! Adding ground chicken is important for lean protein and spinach is a great source of calcium!
Cookware
- Baking sheet or tin
- Medium sized pan
Ingredients
- 5 sweet potatoes, washed very well
- 1.5 lb ground chicken
- 1 package of frozen spinach, thawed and dried very well
- 1 tomato, chopped very fine
- 1 tsp olive oil
Substitutions
You can substitute any of the ingredients for some of your favorites, and or add some others as you see fit!
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
Preheat oven to 425 degrees
Step 2
Using a fork, poke holes all around the sweet potatoes; Wrap the sweet potatoes in foil onto a baking sheet or tin, and place in oven for about 1 hour, or until very soft
Step 3
While sweet potatoes are baking, heat oil in a pan over medium heat and brown the ground chicken; Remove from stove once browned