Easiest Weeknight BBQ Ranch Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Baked sweet potatoes stuffed with chicken smothered in BBQ sauce and a little ranch. It's topped off with onion, and jalapeño and a dollop of plain greek yogurt.
Ingredients
- 4 medium-size sweet potatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pound chicken breasts skinless
- pinch coarse salt and black pepper
- 1/2 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce
- 1/4 cup lite ranch
- 3/4 teaspoon ground ancho chile powder divided
- 2 tablespoons yellow onion chopped
- 2 tablespoons jalapeño minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro chopped or 1/8 teaspoon dried cilantro
- 1/4 cup whole plain greek yogurt recommend whole over nonfat greek yogurt for these
Instructions
Bake Sweet Potatoes
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- Pierce sweet potatoes with a fork and brush with olive oil. Place on baking sheet and bake for 50-60 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
Bake Chicken
- Meanwhile when potatoes have 30 minutes remaining to bake, either preheat another oven to 350℉ or once potatoes are done, lower temp oven to 350℉ and cover potatoes with foil to keep warm.
- In a baking dish, add chicken breasts and sprinkle pinch of salt and pepper over each chicken breast.
- Rub in about 1/4 teaspoon ancho chile powder over each chicken breast.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until juices run clear or you reach an internal temp of 165℉.
- Shred chicken. Add BBQ sauce, ranch and 1/4 teaspoon ancho chile powder and mix together until incorporated.
Pepper and Onion
- In a small bowl combine jalapeño, onion, and cilantro and stir.
All Together
- Make a slit lengthwise on the top of sweet potatoes. Gently open up potatoes using back of a spoon. Add BBQ Ranch Chicken to potatoes, top with jalapeño and onion, and a dollop of plain greek yogurt.