Sweet Potatoes With Goat Cheese

Each year Alex and I have a little Thanksgiving tradition: we create and share a vegan and vegetarian Thanksgiving menu to show that the holiday can be about colorful, healthy eating instead of stuffing ourselves with rich foods. Usually it’s a vegetarian main dish. It’s a fun challenge to come up with something other than turkey and pumpkin pie, and each year the dishes get even tastier. This year, this sweet potato, goat cheese and lentil main dish was the star of the show. It’s gooey, creamy, crispy, fresh, and earthy all at once. Keep reading for the recipe.

How to make this sweet potato goat cheese recipe

Our pick for a vegetarian fall meal is this lentil stuffed sweet potatoes with goat cheese. With no exaggeration, it’s one of my favorite recipes we’ve made this year. I modeled it off of these potato skins with pinto beans, but used lentils and goat cheese for a more refined wintery vibe. The goat cheese is not only crumbled over the top with black lentils, fresh thyme, and crunchy celery leaves, but it’s mixed into the inside of the sweet potato for a creamy, savory filling. Here we’ve used a twice baked sweet potato concept. You bake the sweet potato until tender, then remove most of the flesh and leave the skins on the baking sheet. You mash the insides of the sweet potato, add goat cheese and seasonings, and stir until a creamy filling forms. Then you put it back into the potato skin and bake it again (twice!) for a shorter bake until everything is nice and warmed through. Top with those herbed lentils and a few more goat cheese crumbles, and you’ve got an irresistibly delicious meal. It works as a vegetarian main dish, a Thanksgiving side dish, or even for Christmas dinner. This sweet potato goat cheese recipe takes about 1 ½ hours to prepare, making it fit for special occasions. However, it is well worth it for the flavorful dish that results. And, leftovers save well refrigerated; you can bake them to reheat! Let us know what you think in the comments below.

More sweet potato recipes

Outside of this sweet potato goat cheese recipe, here are a few of our favorite sweet potato recipes:

Instant Pot Thai Style Sweet PotatoesSweet Potato WedgesHow to Cook Sweet Potatoes in an Instant PotMoroccan Sweet Potatoes with Tahini DressingBroccoli Cheese Stuffed Sweet PotatoesMoroccan Stew with Chickpeas & Sweet PotatoesMexican Loaded Sweet Potato FriesAll-Star Vegetarian Sweet Potato ChiliVegan Sweet Potato Soup with Harissa