These are the ultimate Paleo and Whole30 Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes! With an addicting filling that tastes just like sausage pizza, they’re a great weeknight dinner (do the first baking ahead of time), healthy, filling, and kid friendly.
Seems like just yesterday I was stuffing sweet potatoes with chili (actually, it was last week) and now here are again stuffing our sweet potatoes – this time with sausage pizza filling.
Does it get better? Yes, because then we put them BACK in the oven for the perfect crispy-final-touches.
The result is twice baked sweet potatoes with a filling that might even taste better than actual sausage pizza. Don’t quote me – I’ll let you be the judge!
We start out with baked sweet potatoes. A reader recently told me about salting the skin of the potatoes prior to baking, and, whoa – I’m never going back.
You can baked your sweet potatoes ahead of time to cut down the cook time by over an hour – in fact even if you HAVE all day, I highly recommend baking the sweet potatoes ahead of time.
It just makes life feel easier, and I’m going to guess not many of us are ready to complain about that. Especially if you happen to be on day 10 of your Whole30 like I am.
Did you know that people are most likely to jump ship on Whole30 on day 10 or 11? The sausage is telling you not to quit.
But seriously, it DOES tend to get harder when you’re not quite midway through, and nothing seems to have changed except for the fact that you’re not letting yourself eat, um, a lot of things.
Stay strong, send this recipe to someone you love and tell them to make it for you ASAP. Good things are on the way!
Also, maybe get a fun tray and have that same person serve you these twice baked sweet potatoes on that tray while you’re cozy on the couch or in bed watching good-bad TV.
Whole30 is starting to sound better now, don’t you think?
Okay, for real though, even if you’re stuffing these in your face in a messy kitchen, while your kids are fighting, and you’re thinking about the 2 loads of laundry you didn’t fold, the emails that need checking, bills that need paying, and your husband texts you that he won’t be home until 9pm, THESE, my real-world friends, will still be delicious. Just saying. I’ve tried it myself.
Sometimes I wonder if tired/stressed mom humor will ever get old to me. But anyway!
After you bake your sweet potatoes and you’re ready to go for the final product, you make a delicious – YES IT TASTES LIKE PIZZA – filling that includes sugar-free sausage (if you can’t find local, try U.S. Wellness Meats), chopped sun-dried tomatoes, onions and garlic, and Italian Seasoning.
Mix the filling with scooped-out inside of the potatoes, re-fill, and bake again to get-cho crisp on! If this is not starting to sound really good to you, you just might be on the wrong website 😉
If you want to be super fancy, you can garnish everything with parsley or some other pretty fresh herb, if fancy is out of the question, simply serve hot and indulge. Tell me what you think! Let’s get cooking 🙂
Sausage Pizza Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes {Paleo & Whole30}
Sausage Pizza Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes {Paleo & Whole30}
Ingredients
- 4 small/med sweet potatoes
- 3/4 lb sweet Italian sausage or breakfast sausage - no sugar added for Whole30!
- 2 tsp olive oil or other cooking fat
- 1/3 cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes softened in hot water and drained prior to adding
- 1/2 small onion chopped
- 3-4 garlic cloves chopped
- Large pinch or more crushed red pepper flakes
- Salt to taste
- 1 and 1/2 tsp dried Italian seasoning or your favorite
Instructions
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First, bake your sweet potatoes (you can do this ahead of time during meal prep):
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Heat your oven to 400 degrees, coat your sweet potatoes lightly with coconut oil or bacon fat, sprinkled with salt if desired. Bake on a foil lined sheet 1 to 1.5 hours until totally soft on the inside**
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Preheat your oven to 400 degrees (to prep for second baking)
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Heat a large skillet over med heat and add 2 tsp cooking fat. Crumble the sausage into the skillet and sprinkle with red pepper flakes, stir and cook until the sausage begins to brown.
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Add the onions to the skillet, stir and cook until translucent, then add the garlic, sundried tomatoes and Italian seasoning. Continue to cook until the mixture is soft and toasty (about 2 minutes) then remove from heat.
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Cut each baked sweet potato in half, then scoop out inside (leaving a very thin layer), then mix with cooked sausage pizza mixture. Add salt to taste.
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Scoop the sweet potato/sausage mixture back into baked potato skins (the more filling the better!) and bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes until browned on top and skin starts to crisp. Serve hot and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
*You can often find store-made sausage without sugar added locally, otherwise I love U.S. Wellness Meats' Pork Breakfast Sausage and Sweet Italian Sausage, no sugar added, for Whole30.
**If baking them ahead of time, allow them to cool, then tightly wrap in foil and refrigerate until using.
Nutrition
Want more Paleo and Whole30 sweet potato recipes? Try one of these!
“Burger & Fries” Breakfast Bake
Quick Chili Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Sweet Potato Apple Breakfast Bake
Sweet Potato Bacon and Kale Hash
Tell Me!
If you’re doing the Whole30, how is it going?
What’s your current favorite sweet potato filling?
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I bet some dried cranberries would be masterful in here as well!
I think it’s definitely true that it would be tempting to jump ship on day 10 or 11, but the huge blessing is that there are increasingly more and more bloggers sharing a huge variety of Whole 30 compliant recipes that look and sound really good! Your blog would be a really good resource.
These were OUTSTANDING! As in….I might eat them all week. I’m not even a huge fan of sweet potatoes, but you knocked it out of the park with this recipe.
Yes!! Thrilled you loved them as much as I did!
I love this, making it tonight.
These were everything I wanted, perfect!!! I will probably be using the filling ingredients in the future with cubed sweet potatoes as a base for scrambled egg bowls… yummy!
That’s great! I think the filling would be perfect that way, love it 🙂
Thank you! I made these tonight and added a little dump ranch and jalapenos (because I add those to everything, lol) and it was so good!! 🙂
Great! So happy you liked it 🙂
This was sooooo amazinly awesome!!! I took my leftovers to work and shared them with co-workers and they loved this recipe!!!
This was the perfect Sunday night meal! How in the world did you think to combine pizza and sweet potato flavors?! It was simply delicious and my entire family – including picky teens – loved it and asked me to make it again soon. Really. Thank you!!!
Delicious!
I made this tonight for dinner and omgggg ❤️?❤️ Made for myself, bf, and 2 roommates and we all SLAMMED them. Not a spec left on anyones plate. Soooo good. We couldn’t believe how much it tastes like pizza??? Amazing
These were fantastic! Even my non-paleo husband loved them!
So delicious. Always come back to this recipe if I need a delicious meal prep lunch.
I was going to make these for dinner tonight. I am out of sun dried tomatoes. Has anyone substituted a bit of tomato paste in a pinch?
Yum!! This is now in our regular rotation and we love it!
This was so delicious, I loved the sausage and sweet potato combo! I did make a few subs, I subbed tomato paste for sun dried tomatoes (probably 2T but I went by look and taste). And because I was hangry and couldn’t wait for the potato to bake, I chopped it up and cooked the dish up like a skillet 🙂 Cant wait time cook this again the “right” way! Thanks!
Amazing! So good!
Okay I was SUPER excited to make this and come to find out the sundried tomatoes I thought we had was actually a jar of olives. Boo! I had the stuff on hand to make chorizo and grilled some red onions instead. Topped with radish, cilantro and lime, it was fantastic! Thanks for the inspiration!
This is my favorite recipe so far. Tried it with sweet and regular potatoes and I liked it much better with regular poratoes
Love this recipe!! Instead of stuffing the sweet potatoes I just make it into a big pan of hash! Amazing flavor.
Loved these! Added more sun dried tomatoes because we love those! Definitely a recipe I’m making again!
Made this tonight and it was delicious! I will definitely be making this again!
That is amazing! I tried it with my friends on last weekend, they complimented me, but I just said that “it is a paleo recipe you could try as well”!
Was a hit with the whole family! Will definitely be making again!