Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 sweet potatoes
• 4 ounces cream cheese (100g)
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon chili powder, plus extra for topping
• 3 spring onions, chopped (scallions)
• salt & freshly ground black pepper
• butter

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 200c, 400f, gas mark 6.
• 2 prick the skins of the sweet potatoes all over with a fork, place on a baking tray (they will ooze a sticky syrup whilst cooking) and bake in the oven for about 45 minutes or until tender.
• 3 while the potatoes are baking, mix together the cream cheese, egg yolk, chilli powder, spring onions and seasoning in a bowl; towards the end of the cooking time, preheat the grill to hot.
• 4 when baked, cut the sweet potatoes in half lengthways and, keeping the skins intact, scoop the flesh from the sweet potatoes and add to the cream cheese mixture.
• 5 stir all the ingredients together, then stuff the mixture back into the skins.
• 6 dot the tops with butter, sprinkle with extra chilli powder then brown potatoes under the hot grill; serve immediately.