Ingredients
Scale
- 3 medium sweet potatoes
- 6 slices bacon, roughly chopped
- 4–5 green onions, chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter
- pinch cayenne pepper
- 1/2 cup crème fraîche (or sour cream or greek yogurt)
- salt + ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F
- Bake the sweet potatoes on a baking pan for 45-55 minutes or until you can easily pierce through it with a knife.
- Let them cool for about 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, sauté the bacon in a frying pan on medium heat until the bits are crispy, this should take about 10-15 minutes. Remove pan from the heat and stir in the green onions. Set aside.
- For 2 of the potatoes, split them in half and scoop most of the flesh out, leaving about 1/4? on the borders. Take all the flesh out of the remaining potato.
- Mash, then add the butter and the bacon-green onions mixture.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Spoon the mixture back into the skins and bake for another 20-25 minutes.
- Serve with the crème fraîche.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour 30 mins