Name: Buffalo Chicken Sweet Potato Recipe
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 2 medium sweet potatoes; 2 teaspoons olive oil (divided); 1 teaspoon paprika; 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 2 small cooked boneless (skinless chicken breasts, shredded); 1/4 cup Frank's red hot sauce; 1/4 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt; 1 tablespoon nonfat milk; 2 tablespoons 1/2 ounce crumbled blue cheese; pinch of salt

20 minute meal! These Buffalo Chicken Sweet Potato recipe is topped off with a light blue cheese yogurt sauce. An easy weeknight dinner recipe!

Buffalo Chicken Sweet Potato Recipe

This Buffalo chicken sweet potato recipe has come to the rescue on many meal planning-fail occasions. I have a few friends that are queens of weeknight dinner prep. They wield their knives like pros, putting slow cookers and Instant Pots to use at least a few times per week. And then there is another group of friends who are killing it in other areas of their lives, but just can't get on top of their weeknight dinner game. And me? I fall smack dab in the middle of the two...meal planning aficionado one week and a hot mess the next.

What I hear over and over again from friends and readers, and is clear when you guys pin the heck out of any quick meal idea that I post (thank you!), is that you covet a great, healthy 20-minute meal. I'm right there with you!

These chicken stuffed sweet potatoes were inspired by my Turkey Taco Stuffed Sweet Potatoes, one of the most popular recipes on my site. And maybe a little bit of inspiration comes from the fact that it's 90 degrees today. In Seattle. With no air conditioning in sight. And I'm ready for jeans and sweater weather, and all-things-squash-and-pumpkin.

One of the reasons this recipe comes together so quickly is because it calls for cooked chicken breasts. This is where poaching several chicken breasts on Sunday to use during the week comes in handy. Alternatively, store-bought rotisserie chickens will do the trick.

To save time, cook the sweet potatoes in the microwave. Once they're cool enough to handle, scoop out the potato and mash it with some olive oil and the same spice mix that you'll toss with the shredded chicken (paprika, garlic powder and salt...that's it) before scooping back into the sweet potato skins. The shredded chicken is also coated with a Buffalo chicken sauce (I use this one), then piled onto the stuffed sweet potatoes with a healthy dollop of blue cheese yogurt sauce.

Serve them up with a side salad or steamed veggies.

Other sweet potato recipes:

Sweet Potato Bison Shepherd's Pie {Cookin' Canuck}
Baked Sweet Potato Fries {Cookin' Canuck}
Healthy Sweet Potato Wrap {Show Me The Yummy}
Easy Cinnamon Mashed Sweet Potatoes {Wicked Spatula}

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Buffalo Chicken Sweet Potato Recipe

20 minute meal! These Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are topped with a light blue cheese yogurt sauce. An easy weeknight dinner recipe!

4.75 from 12 votes

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Course: Entrees, Sandwiches

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Gluten Free, Healthy Dinner Recipes, Poultry Recipes

Prep Time: 12

Cook Time: 8

Total Time: 20

Servings: Servings

Calories: 239.8kcal

Author: Dara Michalski | Cookin' Canuck

Ingredients

2 medium sweet potatoes
2 teaspoons olive oil divided
1 teaspoon paprika
½ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon salt
2 small cooked boneless skinless chicken breasts, shredded
¼ cup Frank's red hot sauce

The Yogurt Sauce:

¼ cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt
1 tablespoon nonfat milk
2 tablespoons ½ ounce crumbled blue cheese
pinch of salt

Instructions

Pierce the sweet potatoes all over with a fork. Cook in the microwave on HIGH until tender when pierced with a fork, about 4 minutes per side. Let the potatoes rest until cool enough to handle.
Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise. Carefully scoop the flesh out of the potatoes and place in a medium-sized bowl. Reserve the skins. With the back of a fork, mash the potato flesh until most lumps are gone. Stir in 1 teaspoon olive oil.
In a small bowl, stir together the paprika, garlic powder and salt. Stir half of the mixture into the mashed potato. Divide the mashed sweet potato evenly between the potato skins.
In a medium bowl, toss the shredded chicken with the remaining 1 teaspoon olive oil, remaining spice mixture, then stir in the hot sauce until the chicken is coated.
Divide the chicken mixture evenly between the stuffed sweet potatoes.
Top each with a dollop of the yogurt sauce.

The Yogurt Sauce:

In a small bowl, stir together the yogurt, milk, blue cheese and salt.

Notes

Weight Watchers Points: 4 (Freestyle SmartPoints), 6 (SmartPoints), 6 (Points+)

Nutrition

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This post was originally published on September 6, 2017 and was updated on August 29, 2019.

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