Baked eggs in sweet potatoes

Soft, buttery sweet potatoes enclose creamy-soft baked eggs – delicious! Serve with a simple salad for an easy, tasty & nutritious light lunch or supper.

Sundays are always an odd day for us, food-wise. Since I’m at home every day, it ought to be no different from the rest of the week, but somehow… DH and our daughter Kipper are both at home, and there are the ‘Sunday jobs’ – laundry, changing the sheets etc. – that give the day its own ‘feeling’. And that is reflected in what we end up eating.

Sunday dining

We have our traditional waffle breakfast, in the morning,  then lunch is usually wraps or something on toast. And dinner is whatever I can quickly put together from the contents of the fridge. Sometimes with chips. I try to ring the changes when I can, but I rarely feel like spending a long time in the kitchen on a Sunday. So quick and tasty is always going to be a winner.

Sweet potatoes and eggs

Sometimes, inspiration strikes in the form of a ready-steady-cook style challenge! On this particular Sunday, there wasn’t much in the way of inspiration available. Apparently, I needed to shop first thing Monday! But we did have sweet potatoes, and we did have eggs.

So, it was simply a matter of creatively combining the two, and dinner was served! I present, baked eggs in sweet potatoes!

Baked eggs – Easy and delicious

There’s really no meal easier than jacket potatoes, and you could actually do this with regular (white) potatoes just as easily as with sweet potatoes. Scrub them, stab them, and sling them in the oven. Then forget about them for an hour or so while you do something else.

Then – and this is the really great part – take 5 minutes of minimal effort to transform them into these gorgeous baked eggs in sweet potatoes! They looked so fantastic when they came out of the oven, and they tasted delicious. The soft, buttery sweet potato flesh and creamy egg… They really didn’t need much by way of accompaniment and we just had a green salad. If you like things a little spicy, I imagine a fresh tomato salsa with a kick of chilli would be a delicious accompaniment too.

My daughter Kipper loved hers. And I have to admit, I was pretty keen. A perfect, easy, Sunday dinner. 

And I can’t be alone in noticing that these would be ideal for a Pesach meal, can I?

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Baked eggs in sweet potatoes

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Soft, buttery sweet potatoes enclose creamy-soft baked eggs. A tasty & nutritious light lunch or supper.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Vegetarian

Servings 1

Calories 293 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 medium sweet potato
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1 egg
• Salt & pepper

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F).
• Scrub the sweet potato, and pierce in several places with a fork. Place on a baking tray in the oven and bake for 45-60 minutes or until soft.
• Remove the potato from the oven and cut a slit in the skin lengthwise. Open the potato up and scoop the flesh to the sides to create a hollow.
• A the butter to the hollow and spread with a spoon. Crack the egg into the hollow.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste, then return to the oven for 5-10 minutes, depending on how cooked you like your egg.
• Remove from the oven and serve at once!

Notes

This recipe serves one, however it is simple to multiply up for more people!

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Baked eggs in sweet potatoes

Amount per Serving

Calories

293

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

8

g

12

%

Saturated Fat

 

4

g

25

%

Trans Fat

 

1

g

Cholesterol

 

174

mg

58

%

Sodium

 

222

mg

10

%

Potassium

 

824

mg

24

%

Carbohydrates

 

46

g

15

%

Fiber

 

7

g

29

%

Sugar

 

10

g

11

%

Protein

 

9

g

18

%

Vitamin A

 

32425

IU

649

%

Vitamin C

 

5

mg

6

%

Calcium

 

94

mg

9

%

Iron

 

2

mg

11

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Keyword egg, sweet potato

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