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
Ingredients
- 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
Nutrition
More delicious sweet potato recipes
You might also enjoy these baked sweet potatoes with spiced butter, these delicious sweet potato latke-waffles, and these sticky roasted sweet potatoes with aubergines, soy, maple and ginger.
recipesfromapantry
What a brilliant idea – an easy way to jazz up sweet potatos
Helen
Yes, really easy! Definitely looks and tastes more impressive than the effort required!
munchiesandmunchkins
Oh this looks awesome, I love baked sweet potatoes and also baked eggs so I need to try this for sure.
Helen
Thanks! It’s a fab combo 🙂
Georgia
I’ve never had egg in a baked potato before but u love the idea, I may have to try this tomorrow when we get home from a busy day out!
Helen
Thanks Georgia. It’s a great recipe to cook when you’re busy – very little input and great results!
Cecilia Keinapel
Wow this looks very interesting, I have never tried this recipe before. Looks yummy though!
Helen
Thanks Cecilia! It is yummy!
choclette
Love this idea Helen. I’ve never tried a baked egg and I’m not quite sure how long to leave it to cook so the white is done but you still get a runny yolk. I think your potatoes are a good place to start.
Helen
Thanks Choclette! I like them after about 5 mins when they’re still quite soft, although DH prefers a few minutes longer. If you keep an eye on them you can see when the white is just about done, and I usually whip them out at that point 🙂