With July 4th around the corner, we decided to bring you this super creative and delicious take on baked potatoes. Get ready for a chicken stuffed sweet potato! It tastes as good as it looks, bursting with juicy BBQ flavor. Serve chicken stuffed sweet potatoes with a side of coleslaw and you've got yourself a healthier traditional Southern-feeling cookout meal. This meal prep recipe is the perfect easy lunch idea and makes for a satisfying dinner. Save this meal prep recipe for yourself or share it with friends and family -- we know they'll be impressed.
Enjoy your favorite barbecue fixings stuffed into a sweet potato in this high-protein, high-fiber recipe. Barbecued pulled chicken cooks in an instant pot for a complete meal in less than an hour!
How long will BBQ Chicken?
The entire meal (excluding the coleslaw) will last about 4 days in your refrigerator. Be sure to store the meal in airtight containers like these.
Can BBQ Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes be frozen?
It certainly can. Chicken stuffed sweet potatoes can be frozen, saved, and enjoyed later. The chicken will hold its flavor for 4 months but is safe to eat beyond that time. Cooked sweet potatoes last for 6 months in the freezer. If you want to make more than 4 servings, cook more chicken and sweet potatoes. We have an easy recipe for Crockpot Sweet Potatoes so you can cook as many sweet potatoes you need. Our Crockpot Sweet Potatoes is another easy lunch idea.
BBQ Pulled Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes Ingredients:
For BBQ Pulled Chicken Sweet Potatoes
- 2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup gluten-free BBQ sauce
- 4 medium cooked Melissa's sweet potatoes
- ⅓ cup gluten-free bbq sauce for serving
For Coleslaw
- 4 cups shredded coleslaw mix
- 3 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ⅛ teaspoon cracked black pepper
On to the exciting part! Make your coleslaw first and place it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Just stir coleslaw ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl. That should take 5 minutes, maybe less.
How to make BBQ Chicken in the Pressure Cooker:
You should have cooked sweet potatoes on standby thanks to our Crockpot Sweet Potatoes meal prep recipe. For the chicken, you'll need your instant pot, chicken breast, and BBQ sauce (we use a Whole30 compliant, gluten-free BBQ sauce). Add chicken and BBQ sauce to the pot, secure the lid, and close the vent valve. Use the "chicken" or "manual" setting and let the chicken cook for 20 minutes. Allow the instant pot to depressurize naturally for 5-10 minutes and open the vent valve after to release extra pressure. Grab a cutting board to use for shredding the chicken. Shred the chicken on the cutting board using two forks. When you're done shredding, put the chicken back into the pot and add more BBQ sauce. That's it! We give you permission to try one chicken stuffed sweet potato before you pack the rest away.
How to portion BBQ Pulled Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes?
Place 1 sweet potato in the biggest compartments of your MPOF meal prep containers (you need four). Put your chicken and coleslaw in each of the smaller (1 cup) compartments. Spoon or pour a side of BBQ sauce into a plastic cup and cover with a lid. Place the sauce with the sweet potato. Store and enjoy this prepared easy lunch idea the next day!
More BBQ Chicken meal prep recipes:
Looking for more BBQ chicken meal prep recipes? We don't blame you! Try these finger-licking-good BBQ chicken recipes and let us know what you think:
- BBQ chicken with an Asian flare Korean BBQ Chicken Thighs
- Traditional (but smoky and delicious) chicken and vegetables Oven Baked BBQ Chicken and Veggies Meal Prep
- Slow-cooked BBQ goodness Crockpot BBQ Chicken Meal Prep Recipe
- If you really enjoyed chicken stuffed sweet potato, try this chicken and sweet potato recipe BBQ Chicken Meal Prep with Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potato
- Tangy chicken meatballs Molasses Bourbon BBQ Glazed Chicken Meatballs
Other tips for making BBQ Pulled Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes:
If you don't have an instant pot to cook the chicken, you can use a sheet pan & oven-baked method, or use a crockpot. We use an instant pot because it reduces the cooking time.
You can use skinless chicken thighs instead of chicken breasts.
We don't season the chicken in this recipe, but you can. Be sure to keep the seasoning simple so you don't take away from the BBQ sauce or have overpowering flavors.
Have fun with whichever BBQ sauce you want. That's the beauty of this versatile dish!
If you don't have enough sweet potatoes or want to change things up, use your BBQ pulled chicken for Sloppy Joes for another easy lunch idea.
Additional sides that go amazingly well with BBQ pulled chicken are macaroni & cheese, deviled eggs, broccoli salad, and corn salad.
Equipment
- Instant Pot
Ingredients
BBQ Pulled Chicken Sweet Potatoes
- 2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup gluten-free BBQ sauce
- 4 medium crockpot sweet potatoes
- ⅓ cup gluten-free bbq sauce for serving whole30, if needed
Coleslaw
- 4 cups shredded coleslaw mix
- 3 tablespoon mayonnaise whole30, if needed
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ⅛ teaspoon cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Stir together ingredients for coleslaw in a medium mixing bowl. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Add chicken and barbecue sauce to the instant pot. Secure lid and close vent valve. Press chicken/meat” setting or “manual” for 20 minutes. When the timer goes off, allow the instant pot to depressurize naturally for 5-10 minutes then open vent valve to release extra pressure. Remove lid and shred chicken on a cutting board using two forks. Return chicken to pot and toss in barbecue sauce.
- Place 1 sweet potato in the large compartment of 4 MPOF white containers. Divide pulled chicken between 1 of each small compartments and divide coleslaw between the remaining small compartments. Divide ⅓ cup of barbecue sauce between 4 small sauce cups and place next to sweet potatoes.
This was really good!
Glad you liked it Justin! Glad you're still on your meal prep game