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Mediterranean Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Chickpeas & Avocado Tahini

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Mediterranean stuffed sweet potatoes with marinated chickpeas and topped with an avocado tahini sauce – grain free & vegan

Mediterranean stuffed sweet potatoes on a tray with herbs, avocado tahini and chickpeas

This made my mouth so happy I can’t even tell you how much.

You know you’ve landed on something good when you’re sad the left overs are gone. Left overs!

I had these stuffed sweet potatoes for four days in a row and on the last one I was genuinely bummed they were all gone. That is until I remembered how easy these are to make. The avocado tahini sauce, based off of my basil avocado dip,  is the most work and all you have to do there is toss a few ingredients in a blender and hit go. Easy.

Mediterranean stuffed sweet potatoes with marinated chickpeas on a plate

Mediterranean Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

As I have already mentioned – these sweet potatoes are suuuper easy to make. This recipe can be broken down in to a few parts:

mediterranean stuffed sweet potatoes collage

The Sweet Potatoes

Just pop them in the oven for about 45-60 minutes until they’re soft and tender. The larger your sweet potato is the longer you’ll need to bake it. 

Make sure to poke a few holes all around your potato so the steam that builds up in the potatoes as they can escape.

While the potatoes are baking away in the oven you can prep the rest of your ingredients.

The Chickpea Filling

Literally all you have to do is chop up your herbs and garlic and mix it in with the chickpeas. Then set them aside and let the flavours do all the work. These marinated chickpeas are really great to have on hand anyways for sides and salads in general. You’ll love them!

Avocado Tahini Sauce

As for the avocado sauce – I based this off of one of the avocado tahini I shared on here way back when I first started blogging. I make it all the time and put in on everything. Just throw everything in the blender and process until smooth. If you want a thinner consistency just add another tablespoon or so of water until you get what you want.

Mediterranean stuffed sweet potatoes with marinated chickpeas and topped with an avocado tahini sauce

A few more notes

Can you eat sweet potato skin?

  • Yes! Sweet potato skin is a good source of fibre and potassium. Just make sure to wash the potatoes well before cooking as the skins are often covered in dirt.

How long do these keep?

  • The potatoes and chickpea filling should keep at least 4 days. The avocado tahini might start to turn brown though as avocado doesn’t last long once it’s been exposed to air – that will keep about 2-3 days. 

Poke Holes

  • I already mentioned this above but I’ll say it again – make sure to poke a few holes all around the sweet potato before baking. If you don’t allow the steam to escape the sweet potato will likely be too mushy on the inside and dry on the outside.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do! If you try it let me know what you think in the comments!

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Yield: 8 servings

Mediterranean Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Chickpeas & Avocado Tahini

Mediterranean Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Chickpeas & Avocado Tahini

Mediterranean stuffed sweet potatoes with marinated chickpeas and topped with an avocado tahini sauce – grain free & vegan

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes

Ingredients

  • 8 medium sized sweet potatoes, rinsed well

Marinated Chickpeas

  • 1 15 oz can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • 1/2 red pepper, diced
  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon lemon zest
  • 1 clove | about 1/2 teaspoon garlic, crushed
  • 1 tablespoon freshly chopped parsley
  • 1 tablespoon fresh oregano
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt

Avocado Tahini Sauce

  • 1 medium sized ripe avocado
  • 1/4 cup tahini
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1 tablespoons fresh parsley
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

Toppings

  • 1/4 cup pepitas, hulled pumpkin seeds
  • crumbled up vegan feta or regular feta*, to keep it dairy free

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F/ 204°C.
  2. Use a fork to pierce a few holes in your sweet potatoes to allow air to escape. Place them on a baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes to an hour or until tender to the touch. The large your sweet potato the longer they will need to bake.
  3. While the sweet potatoes are in the oven begin working on the chickpeas. In a medium sized bowl combine the chickpeas and the remaining ingredients needed for marinating. Toss the chickpeas until they're all coated in the marinade then set aside for later.

Avocado Tahini Sauce

  1. To make the sauce, add all of the sauce ingredients to a blender and process until smooth. If you want a thinned consistency add another 1-2 tablespoons of water. Once smooth transfer the sauce to a small bowl and set aside until needed.

Assembly

  1. Once the sweet potatoes are tender to the touch remove them from the oven and set aside until cool enough to handle. When you're ready cut a slit down the middle of each potato and carefully spoon the chickpeas inside. Top with the avocado tahini and sprinkle the pepitas over the top along with the crumpled up feta. These are best served fresh, but you can keep them in the fridge for up to 2 days

Notes

I've been making feta from this salad on The First Mess . The salad is great too, but the feta is really fantastic and one of the easier vegan cheese recipes I've found.

You will have leftover chickpeas & avocado tahini - save extras to make more sweet potatoes or mix together in a big salad

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8

Serving Size:

g
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 308 Saturated Fat: 2g Sodium: 307mg Carbohydrates: 38g Fiber: 8g Sugar: 5g Protein: 7g
© Sarah
Cuisine: Mediterranean / Category: Mains

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  1. Hi! Excited to make this! Question: In your description you mention garlic in the marinade for the chickpeas but I’m not seeing how much in the ingredient list. Thanks!

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    • Hi Meredith! My bad! Looks like I completely missed that in the recipe – thanks for pointing it out to me! I just added one clove medium garlic – so about 1/2 teaspoon

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  2. I’m sorry if I happened to miss this data, but is there any nutritional information on this recipe? I made these tonight and they were AMAZING!!! Definitely going to share with others and will be following you for more delicious food adventures! Thank you!

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    • Hi Heather! So glad you liked it! I actually didn’t add nutritional info for this recipe because it’s a tricky on to figure out since there are so many varying parts that depend on how much you end up using. I’ll try to help you figure it out though!

      The avocado tahini sauce comes out to about 38 calories for 2 tablespoons – here’s the recipe with nutrition info if you want more of a break down on that https://www.asaucykitchen.com/mediterranean-stuffed-sweet-potatoes-chickpeas-avocado-tahini/

      1 medium sized baked sweet potato comes out to about 100-120 calories (according to myfitnesspal)

      The tricky part is the chickpea filling because you’ll end up with extra leftover. If you have 1/4 cup/4 tablespoons of the filling with each sweet potato that comes out to 292 calories. The filling makes roughly 1 1/2 cups so that would get you six servings of the chickpea filling.

      So altogether that comes out to ~450 calories for all of it if you’re being generous with your serving sizes. Hope that helps! Thanks for coming back to leave a comment & a rating – totally makes my day 🙂

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  3. This looks amazing! I can’t have anything citrusy though- would this work if I replaced the lemon with a sherry or cider vinegar? Or would you use something else? I want to make it tonight!!! Might just experiment and see how it goes!! 😉

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      • Hi Sarah, took me longer than planned to get round to this! But I made it tonight and just used sherry vinegar instead of the lemon juice and zest. I think that worked really well for me.
        I also didn’t have oregano so used some coriander I had, that was ok but as coriander has such a strong taste I would try it with the oregano next time.
        Anyhow it all came together beautifully and my hubby said it was great!! We have some of the chickpeas and the avocado tahini left so will use that tomorrow with something else 🙂 I would use these both as part of a larger dip/nibbles meal as they were so yummy!

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  8. I love that you made a typical dinner side dish into an epic hearty meal! Sweet potatoes are BAE, but I usually eat them in a boring way, aka microwaved. You took them to the next level by adding the marinated chickpeas and the AVOCADO TAHINI SAusE! Can you tell that I’m obsessed with all things avo and tahini lol ?

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