BBQ Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

These BBQ chicken stuffed sweet potatoes are what happens when I want comfort food but also want to feel a little virtuous about it. You get the cozy, filling sweet potato, the smoky saucy chicken, a little cheese, and a drizzle of ranch to bring it all home. It hits every craving at once.

This is my go to when I have leftover chicken hanging around or a rotisserie bird from the store. It feels like a complete, hearty meal but it is genuinely so simple to throw together. My kind of dinner.

The ultimate shortcut dinner

The beauty of this recipe is how forgiving it is. Grab a rotisserie chicken, your favorite BBQ sauce, and you are most of the way there. The oven does the work on the sweet potatoes while you barely lift a finger.

If you bake potatoes a lot like we do, a sturdy half sheet baking pan is worth every penny, and a good pair of oven mitts saves your hands when you are wrangling hot potatoes.

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Make it your own bar

I love turning this into a little build your own situation when we have people over. Set out the baked sweet potatoes and bowls of BBQ chicken, cheese, ranch, green onions, maybe some corn or black beans, and let everyone load up their own. It is fun, it is low pressure, and somehow the picky eaters always eat more when they get to choose.

These also reheat beautifully, so I purposely make extra for lunches throughout the week.

BBQ Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Tender baked sweet potatoes loaded with saucy BBQ chicken, a drizzle of ranch, and fresh green onions.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Servings: 4 servings

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: BBQ

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 4 medium sweet potatoes scrubbed
• 3 cups cooked shredded chicken
• 3/4 cup BBQ sauce plus more for serving
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1/4 cup ranch dressing for drizzling
• 3 green onions sliced
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp salt

Method

 

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Rub the sweet potatoes with olive oil and salt, then prick a few times with a fork.
2. Bake on a sheet pan for 45 to 50 minutes until very tender.
3. Meanwhile, warm the shredded chicken with the BBQ sauce in a saucepan over medium heat.
4. Split each sweet potato down the middle and fluff the insides. Top with the BBQ chicken and shredded cheddar.
5. Return to the oven for 3 to 4 minutes to melt the cheese, then drizzle with ranch and scatter green onions on top.

Notes

Use rotisserie chicken to make this come together fast. Microwave the sweet potatoes for 8 to 10 minutes if you are short on time.

Cozy and craveable

This is the kind of meal that makes everyone at the table happy without making me work too hard, which is exactly the balance I am always chasing. Give it a try on your next busy night and I think it will earn a regular spot for you too.

So glad you are here.
xo, Pam