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!
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.
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.
For BBQ Pulled Chicken Sweet Potatoes
For Coleslaw
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.
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.
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!
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:
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.
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This was really good!
Glad you liked it Justin! Glad you're still on your meal prep game