Baked Sweet Potato with Herb Yogurt Topping
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I mentioned a couple of days ago that I’m pretty useless at lunch, often forgetting to eat something. I’m self-employed and work from home, so quite often I just work through and stepping away from my desk can be hard to do. I’m making it a priority to start taking a lunch break and to come up with healthy lunch ideas!
A very easy lunch is a baked potato with some sort of topping. I love sweet potatoes, and if you’ve never tried a baked sweet potato, I highly recommend them. They are full of vitamins and minerals, and have less carbs (if you worry about that sort of thing) than a regular potato. They also release their sugars slowly, so keep you fuller longer.
A favourite topping for baked potatoes is sour cream and chives, but since I try to eat as healthily as I can, I thought I’d switch the sour cream for a 0% Greek yoghurt and make a herb topping instead. With a salad on the side, it made a very tasty and filling lunch, I hope you give it the thumbs up like I did!

Baked Sweet Potato with Herb Yogurt Topping
The topping can be made to your taste, depending on how much you enjoy fresh herbs!
Ingredients
- 1 Sweet Potato
- 4 heaped tbsps 0% Greek (or natural) yogurt
- fresh chives, chopped
- fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped
- garlic salt
Instructions
- Wash the potato and prick all over with a fork. Cook in the microwave on high for 4-5 minutes until cooked through. (Alternatively, bake in the oven for 45-60 minutes).
- Make the topping by mixing together the yogurt, herbs and garlic salt - all to taste.
- Split the baked sweet potato and spoon over the herb yogurt topping.
- Serve with a side salad
Michelle Ordever
February 24, 2015 @ 6:57 pm
It was really yummy! Definitely on my list of lunches again for this week! x
Nicola Meredith
February 22, 2015 @ 3:13 pm
This looks AMAZING – I am going to give this a try but switch the topping for some low fat cottage cheese :)
Michelle Ordever
February 22, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
Sounds good to me! I haven’t eaten cottage cheese for years!