Leftover Baked Sweet Potato With Spinach and Sausage

Recently I've been doing myself a favor and baking extra potatoes when I make dinner. They've been a great addition to my eggs in the morning and now I figured out how to easily use then for lunch!

This is another super simple idea with really tasty results. I used some rolled breakfast sausage I've been keeping on hand, but you could totally do this with ground beef or turkey or even something else like leftover like chili.

It's a fun way to use leftovers and transforms the simple potato into a meal.

Here's what I did...

Ingredients

• 2 oz rolled sausage (The Jimmy Dean kind like this)
• 1 leftover baked sweet potato
• 2 big handfuls of raw spinach, chopped (50g)
• Hot sauce for drizzling

Instructions

Over medium heat, brown the sausage in a small nonstick skillet. While it's cooking, cut the potato in half and scoop out the flesh.

Add the potato flesh and spinach to the pan with the sausage and continue to cook until the spinach wilts and everything is heated through.

Scoop the potato and sausage mixture back into the potato skins and top everything with a drizzle of hot sauce.

I ate it with a knife and a fork and had a bite of everything at once. It was a great mix of tastes and textures.

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Leftover Baked Sweet Potato With Spinach and Sausage

Don't let your baked sweet potatoes go to waste! Turn them into a flavorful meal by adding spinach and sausage. Get the recipe here.

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Prep Time 4 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Total Time 16 minutes mins

Course Appetizer

Cuisine American

Servings 1 people

Calories 417 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 2 oz rolled sausage The Jimmy Dean kind like this
• 1 leftover baked sweet potato
• 2 big handfuls of raw spinach chopped (50g)
• Hot sauce for drizzling

Instructions

 

• Over medium heat, brown the sausage in a small nonstick skillet. While it's cooking, cut the potato in half and scoop out the flesh.
  1 leftover baked sweet potato, 2 oz rolled sausage
• Add the potato flesh and spinach to the pan with the sausage and continue to cook until the spinach wilts and everything is heated through.
  2 big handfuls of raw spinach
• Scoop the potato and sausage mixture back into the potato skins and top everything with a drizzle of hot sauce.
  Hot sauce for drizzling

Nutrition

Calories: 417kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 27gFat: 17gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 882mgPotassium: 3758mgFiber: 16gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 72173IUVitamin C: 163mgCalcium: 607mgIron: 17mg

Keyword Sausage, Spinach, sweet potatoes

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