{"id":16186,"date":"2025-04-28T12:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/uncategorized\/edamame-cilantro-hummus-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T13:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:26:31","slug":"loaded-roasted-sweet-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/recipe\/loaded-roasted-sweet-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"Loaded Roasted Sweet Potato"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<p class=\"back-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/spring-summer-2025\/heart-sleep-and-savor-three-cookbooks-for-a-healthier-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back to Food Article<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sweet-potato-650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16188 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sweet-potato-650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sweet-potato-650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sweet-potato-650-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"recipe-card\"><\/p>\n<h3>Loaded Roasted Sweet Potato<\/h3>\n<p class=\"servings\">Makes 4 servings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 medium sweet potatoes<\/li>\n<li>1 small onion, chopped<\/li>\n<li>1 12-ounce can black beans, no-sodium, drained and rinsed<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc cup apple cider vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1 large fresh tomato<\/li>\n<li>2 ripe avocados<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc cup roasted, unsalted pepitas (pumpkin seeds) or almonds<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cup scallions, sliced thinly<\/li>\n<li>1 jalapeno, chopped (optional)<\/li>\n<li>1 lime, juice and zest<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc cup fresh cilantro, chopped<\/li>\n<li>Black pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Place the sweet potatoes on a baking sheet and roast in the oven at 350\u00b0F for 45 minutes (maybe less), until soft.<\/p>\n<p>In a bowl, mix the onion, beans, vinegar, tomato, scallions, jalapeno, lime juice and zest and cilantro. Taste and adjust the acidity and spice per your preference.<\/p>\n<p>Make a pocket in the baked sweet potato, fill with the bean mixture, spread cubes of avocado (about half avocado per serving), and sprinkle with the nuts.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p class=\"author-credit\">Recipes and photos used with permission and excerpted from The Heart Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook, written by Jenneffer Pulapaka &amp; Hari Pulapaka with foreword by David L. Katz, MD, MPH. Published by Hatherleigh Press, Ltd. Distributed through Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"back-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/spring-summer-2025\/heart-sleep-and-savor-three-cookbooks-for-a-healthier-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back to Food Article<\/a><\/p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View recipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipe","category-spring-summer-2025-recipe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16187,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186\/revisions\/16187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}