Easy and Delicious Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
Healthy loaded sweet potato fries turn sweet potato fries into the perfect vegetarian dinner, shareable snack or appetizer. With all the bold southwest flavors of nachos, this is a delicious way to turn sweet potato fries into a meal.
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The glitter has settled from the holiday season.
There are no more sprinkles to put on top of sinful salted caramel chocolate chip butter bars. In fact, I’m swearing off cookie bars for a little while. You know too much of a good thing and all that. Though, I ask you, can there ever be too much salted caramel anything?
While I say no, my jeans beg to differ. In fact the only way I’m getting the skinnies to button these days is using the trick I used when I was pregnant. Sliding a hair tie over the button and through the button hole and hiding it with a long shirt. We all have our dirty little secrets. This is one of mine. Well, I guess it’s really not a secret anymore.
But after all the Christmas treats and all the delightful fall comfort food, it seems cruel to jump on the New Years Let’s Eat Healthy Bandwagon and only eat things that are salady. Especially in January in the northeast. Now don’t get me wrong, in the warmer weather, I love me a good salad like this awesome Thai Chicken Salad. But in January? Well, I pretty much want to crawl under all the blankets and eat cheese fries.
You know you do too. It’s ok. I don’t judge.
With these healthy loaded sweet potato fries, you totally can do that with absolute zero guilt.
What are loaded sweet potato fries?
Loaded sweet potato fries turn these healthy sweet potato fries into a full on meal.
And they are pretty much the fry version of salad.
Stay with me here.
Salads are big plates of veggies, right?
Right. Glad you agree.
Well, these loaded sweet potato fries are basically a giant plate of veggies- sweet potatoes- in fry form, topped with black beans, cherry tomatoes, red onion, jalapeno.
See? Salad! Multiple veggies, one plate. Totally legit.
They even have their own version of dressing.
The sweet potato fries are tossed in a little olive oil. We have a splash of lime to complete the “fry vinaigrette.”
Ingredients and Kitchen Supplies
To make these you’ll need:
- Sweet potatoes– Large ones, cut into fry shapes
- Olive oil
- Spices- Chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper
- Toppings- Drained and rinsed canned black beans, halved cherry tomatoes, chopped red onion, seeded and diced jalapeno, fresh cilantro, avocado, shredded cheddar cheese
- Lime dressing ingredients– Lime, spices, pressed garlic
Kitchen supplies you’ll need include:
Loaded Sweet Potato Fries Recipe
1. Prep the sweet potatoes.
Cut the sweet potatoes into fry shapes. Then, toss the cut sweet potatoes in olive oil and spices.
2. Bake the sweet potato fries.
Spread the sweet potato fries out on a cookie sheet covered with foil and sprayed with nonstick spray. Bake for 20-22 minutes in a 400 degree oven. Flip and bake for an addition 20 minutes.
3. Prepare your fry toppings.
While the fries are baking, drain and rinse the can of black beans.
Set them aside and chop the onion, jalapeno and tomatoes.
Add the beans and chopped veggies to a small bowl.
Season with the juice of 1 lime, 1 tsp chili powder and crushed garlic clove.
4. Avengers, assemble (the fries).
When the fries come out of the oven, top them with the veggie mix and then sprinkle them with cheese.
Return to oven and bake for 3-5 minutes or until the cheese melts.
Finish them off by garnishing with avocado, lime wedges and fresh cilantro if desired.
Enjoy!
French Fry Topping Ideas
These sweet potato fries are loaded to the brim with all sorts of toppings including cheese, tomatoes, black beans, onions, and avocado slices.
But if you want to put other toppings on you sure can!
Toppings that would be delicious on these loaded sweet potato fries include:
- Beer Cheese Queso
- The Best Zesty Pineapple Mango Salsa
- Fresh Tomato Salsa Recipe
- The Best Fresh Pineapple Habanero Salsa
- Sour cream
- Easy Ground Beef Taco meat
- Instant Pot Chicken Taco meat
Never ask, “What do I serve with sweet potato fries again!”
A lot of people struggle with what to serve with sweet potato fries.
But these loaded sweet potato cheese fries are a meal in and of themselves.
They are essentially a lightened up version of nachos with all the delicious fixings.
You don’t need to serve anything with them, but if you wanted to you could serve them with lots of appetizers.
IMO I think they’d pair well with:
- This Instant Pot Buffalo Cauliflower or this Buffalo Cauliflower dip. Both great options if you want to keep things vegetarian friendly.
- For people that eat meat, buffalo chicken dip.
- Easy Jalapeno Popper Dip (with Cream Cheese)
If you want to put sweet potato fries on the side of a main course, I’d go with:
- A light main like these Buffalo Cauliflower Quinoa Lettuce wraps
- Pretty much any burger like these pineapple bbq burgers or these stuffed burgers
- Any other sandwich like this Instant Pot Barbecue Chicken Sandwiches or these Philly Cheesesteak Sliders
- Ribs like these Beer Barbecue Ribs
Really! The sky’s the limit!
Tips and Tricks
- Want to skip the oven? Cool. Make these easy air fryer sweet potato fries as your base instead.
- Play with the toppings and customize them according to your liking.
- Make a fry topping station with all of the ingredients for these loaded fries and let people build their own!
Other Recipes with Sweet Potato Fries
What are you waiting for?!
Make these yummy loaded sweet potato fries the next time you want a fun, lightened up take on nachos.
Looking for other ways to enjoy sweet potato fries? Try these:
- Buffalo chicken sweet potato cheese fries
- Easy Baked Cinnamon Sugar Sweet Potato Fries
- The Best Easy Baked Sweet Potato Fries
- Easy Delicious Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries
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Ingredients
For the fries
- 2 large sweet potatoes
- 3 tbs olive oil
- 1 tbs chili powder
- 1/2 tbs cumin
- salt and pepper to taste
For the toppings
- 1 1/2 cups of black beans drained and rinsed
- 1 pint of cherry tomatoes halved
- 1/3 of a red onion chopped
- 1 jalapeno chopped*
- 1 clove of garlic crushed
- Fresh cilantro to taste
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 cup of shredded cheddar or cheddar jack cheese
- 1 avocado
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400.
- Cut sweet potatoes into fry shapes. Toss in olive oil and spices. Spread out on a cookie sheet covered with foil and sprayed with nonstick spray. Bake for 20-22 minutes. Flip and bake for an addition 20 minutes.
- While the fries are baking, drain and rinse black beans and chop the onion, jalapeno, and tomatoes. Add the beans and chopped veggies to a small bowl. Season with the juice of 1 lime, 1 tsp chili powder, and crushed garlic clove.
- When the fries come out of the oven, top with the veggie mix and sprinkle with cheese. Return to oven and bake for 3-5 minutes or until the cheese melts.
- Garnish with avocado and fresh cilantro if desired.
These look awesome! Want to dig in!
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Love sweet potato! Fabulous recipe to try out 🙂
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Oh wow… this looks so yummy! I’m always looking for new ways to incorporate more sweet potatoes in our meals.
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Those look amazing! Love the spicy with the avocado!
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These look so good! Definitely going to try these!
Thanks Meghann!
Wow! These looks amazing! I love nachos, but sweet potatoes might make a healthy substitute for tortilla chips.
Totally would. I’m thinking about doing another version of these with the sweet potatoes cut into chips 🙂
Oh my yum, this looks and sounds amazing!
Thank you!
What a great tip for your jeans! Sometimes you just need a little extra room but don’t want to buy new jeans. And these fries look amazing! I am a sucker for sweet potato fries but never thought to make them into loaded fries. Love this idea!
Buying new jeans is next to torture for me. I almost never do it. I would rather shop for bathing suits and don’t love that either. So yes, that hair tie trick gets A LOT of use here. Thanks for stopping by and reading!
A healthy plate of fries? Sign me up! These look amazing! Also, no — you can’t have too much salted caramel anything LOL
I know right? Sounds too good to be true!
And salted caramel EVERYTHING 🙂
Yup, this is my kind of dish. Looks absolutely amazing and makes me feel rather hungry!
Thanks Katrin!
Oh my word! These look incredible!!!!!!! I am literally marking down the ingredients so I can make them tonight (is it bad to be thinking about dinner so early in the day!? HA)
Never too early to think about dinner! I am too. ::tummy rumbles:: Let me know how they come out! I hope you love them!
I’m such a sucker for sweet potatoes & sweet potato fries. I order them on any restaurant menu. These look great and i can make them at home too!
This looks incredible and SUCH a great idea!!!
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This looks amazing!!!!
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This looks so super tasty! I love everything on this plate!! Okay, maybe I would pass on the jalapenos, but everything else?…yes, please!
I know! The more you pile on, the better the food, right?
These look so yummy! I find sweet potatoes/yams hard to cut when raw. Is there a trick to it? Thanks!
What kind of knife are you using?
These look amazing for any day but especially Super Bowl snacking!
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These look delicious. A wonderful dish to share and dig in to!
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This looks so incredibly good!
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Yes! Oh my! This looks so good. I love sweet potato fries, so topping it with all the yummies sounds like the best meal!
Such a satisfying meal!
These look incredible! Pinning and saving for later! 🙂
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Yum! This looks delicious! I’m not usually a fan of sweet potatoes, but I think I may like these.
Have you ever tried savory sweet potatoes instead of sweet sweet potatoes? I am not a fan of sweet potato casserole- you know with marshmallows. But I love them when they are savory and slightly spicy.
Those totally pass for a salad 🙂 Looks so yummy!
Right???
Oh Yumm! I love that this is filled with protein and looks super yummy I can’t wait to try this.
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Crawl under the covers and eat cheese fries — LOL. Girl, I live in Michigan. I get you. These loaded sweet potato fries look even better than cheese fries though!
Right? It’s my winter MO.
These look amazing! I’ll be pinning it and saving it for later since I’ll be doing a vegan fast starting tomorrow. Ah!
XOXO, Amaris
Whoa! Good luck on your fast! You could make them without the cheese.
This looks so good! I could pick at that all night!
Exactly!
Yum! These look so amazing!! I would probably eat the whole plate!
Haha me too!
Those look delicious! I love sweet potatoes!
Thank you!