Sweet potatoes and eggs are combined together for a simple, healthy recipe. These Sweet Potato Egg Boats are made with eggs, spinach, and tomatoes that are baked into a tender baked sweet potato, for a delicious, easy sweet potato egg bake.
If you love sweet potatoes, you will also love Sweet Potato Crust Quiche, Baked Sweet Potato Fries, and Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili,
Talk about a healthy breakfast! These sweet potatoes stuffed with baked eggs are high in protein, low in fat, high in fiber, high in vitamins and nutrients and happen to be gluten-free and paleo.
And these Baked Sweet Potatoes with Eggs could not be easier to make! Therefore is sure to become a favorite at your house as well.
Steps to making Sweet Potato Egg Cups
Step One: Start with a pre-baked sweet potato.
- I suggest throwing in some sweet potatoes in the oven or instant pot the night before while you are making dinner and letting them cool and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Once the potato is cooled enough to handle, slice the potato in half lengthwise.
Step Two: Scoop out a Cavity for the Eggs
- I like to use a mini cookie scoop or melon baller, but a spoon will work, just be careful to leave some sweet potato flesh inside the sweet potato--this will prevent the egg mixture from searing out of the sweet potato.
Step Three: Season potatoes and stuff potatoes.
- Season each sweet potato half with salt and pepper and sprinkle with tomatoes and spinach. If you are not Whole 30 or Paleo, add in some feta cheese as well for taste.
Step Four: Fill Sweet Potato With Eggs
- Mix together eggs with milk or water.
- Carefully pour egg mixture into well of potato.
Step Five: Bake Sweet Potato Egg Boats.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes until egg is set. You can also broil, but will need to watch carefully after 5 minutes.
- Serve.
A Few More Pointers on Sweet Potato Baked Eggs
- Baked eggs in sweet potatoes can be customized any way you want! You can use white potatoes as well. And let the egg filling be anything you like in omelets--ham and cheese, sausage and peppers, mushrooms, and onions....the list goes on and on. What a great way to feed a bunch of palates--every family member's Potato Egg Boat can be customized just the way they want it.
- DON'T Throw away the filling of the potatoes!! The baked sweet potato is a great addition to Sweet Potato Oatmeal, Sweet Potato Casserole, or Sweet Potato Pancakes.
- If you are using white potatoes, that extra potato filling would be great in Crispy Creamy Potato Pancakes.
- To keep this Spinach Egg Bakes paleo and whole-30 approved, omit feta cheese.
- If you are using smaller sweet potatoes for this recipe, you may only need 2-3 eggs. If you have leftover egg custard, just scramble up for another day.
Now grab a fork and dig into a gluten-free, protein-filled egg breakfast that is a boat of deliciousness!
More Healthy Breakfast Recipes
- Asparagus Frittata
- Mediterranean Frittata
- Gluten-Free Banana Oat Pancakes
- Instant Pot Steel Cut Oats
Baked Eggs in Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 2 large sweet potatoes baked and cooled
- 4 eggs
- ½ cup spinach chopped
- 1 tomato chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt divided
- 1 teaspoon pepper divided
- 2 tablespoons water or milk
- 2 tablespoons feta optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Cut baked sweet potatoes in half and carefully scoop out the center of each half, leaving about ½ inch border of sweet potato left.
- Sprinkle each half with salt and pepper (use about ½ teaspoon of each total). Divide spinach, tomato, and feta if using evenly between each sweet potato half.
- Mix together eggs with remaining ½ teaspoon each of salt and pepper and water or milk. Carefully pour into whisked eggs into sweet potato halves.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until eggs are set.
Denise Wright
What a creative idea! I could easily eat this for dinner. Great recipe!
Kristen Chidsey
It is a perfect dinner option!
Joy @ Joy Love Food
I love sweet potatoes, what a great idea to stuff them with omelet, sounds delicious!
Kristen Chidsey
Thanks Joy!
susan @ the wimpy vegetarian
This is perfect for me!! I love how easy and healthy it is!
Kristen Chidsey
I am glad you think you will enjoy this dish! It is one of my favorites!
Linz @ Itz Linz
looks delicious AND pretty!
Kristen Chidsey
Thanks!
Lara
heck to the yes this looks good!
Kristen Chidsey
Thank you so much!
Kirsten
Kristen,
The sweet potatoes I get from the farm share may taste wonderful, but they are all gnarly-shaped. Even though I miss the weekly box of veggies during the winter, I'm looking forward to finishing up my farm share sweet potatoes--only a handful left after all the recipes I made this week.
This idea is a great one, and I want to try it with fat store bought sweet potatoes so I can hold more feta!
Thanks!
Kristen Chidsey
Oh, there is nothing better than fresh farm produce, but I hear ya---the fat sweet potatoes are best because the more feta the better!
Jessica @ Nutritioulicious
Love this! Great quick and easy meal for the kids too!
Kristen Chidsey
Exactly. My kids like their eggs with just feta. And a spinach salad on the side--how can I can complain about that?!
jean
Gosh, this is soooo my kind of food. Anything with egg and spinach and you used a sweet potato as a vessel--brilliant! I have a few of them sitting on my counter so you just gave me a great idea how to use them up!
Kristen Chidsey
Wonderful!! So happy to inspire you!
Jameson Fink
The contrast between the salty feta and the sweet potato sounds perfect. A great dish for brunch with friends if you, as recommended, bake off the potatoes the night before.
Kristen Chidsey
Oh, I want to have a brunch party now!
Joanie @ ZagLeft
I love this idea, such a great combination of wonderful flavors!
Kristen Chidsey
Thanks! They are all my favorite!
Laura @MotherWouldKnow
I'm pretty much obsessed by sweet potatoes and love eggs for dinner, so this is a perfect meal for me.
Kristen Chidsey
Yes! You will love this!!
Julie @ Willow Bird Baking
What a fantastic idea!
Kristen Chidsey
Thanks Julie!
Melissa Falk
Great idea. Looks really yummy, too 🙂
Kristen Chidsey
Thanks so much Melissa!
Marjory @ Dinner-Mom
It's an explosion of my favorite foods. Love it!
Kristen Chidsey
It really is!
Ashley | Spoonful of Flavor
These are perfect! I want to dive right into one of those boats!
Kristen Chidsey
I wish I could have you over to have one together 🙂
Meg @ The Housewife in Training Files
These look so tasty! We could eat sweet potatoes all day long!!
Kristen Chidsey
Me too! They are great in so many dishes!