Quick & Healthy Loaded Venison Sweet Potatoes

Loaded Venison Sweet Potatoes are a staple dinner in our house for those busy weeknight! This recipe is so simple to make, nourishing and absolutely delicious. A fantastic way to use ground venison that the whole family will enjoy.

I love making all kinds of delicious meals with venison but sometimes you just want quick, easy and healthy. That is when recipes like these Loaded Venison Sweet Potatoes are exactly what you need. Simple ingredients, no long cooking times and can be on the dinner table in 30 minutes.

If you hunt, you are most likely looking for new ways to enjoy ground game meat all the time. Because let’s face it, your classic pasta and tacos are delicious but it is easy to get tired of them too. This simple dinner, starts with roasting sweet potatoes in half until golden. You then cook up some ground venison with spices and sauté some peppers and onions. Finish it off by piling cheese, the ground venison, peppers and onion, salsa, sour cream and guacamole on top of the sweet potatoes and voila dinner is served!

There are of course some ways you can modify this recipe to your liking. For starters, you can use any kind of sweet potatoes you like or even just use white potatoes if you prefer. You can cook these loaded sweet potatoes with any kind of ground wild game meat you have. Adjust the toppings to whatever is your favourite and enjoy.

Tips for Making Loaded Venison Sweet Potatoes

1. No matter which variation of sweet potato you choose, aim to pick a size where half of the potato is a good size for 1 person. This will of course vary depending on how much you eat.
2. If you have an air fry mode on your oven use that to cook the sweet potatoes and if not, use convection. This will cook the potatoes from all around and give you that nice golden crisp bottom.
3. With your ground venison or other ground game meat, I always recommend you have ate least 10-20% fat ground in with it. We do this by adding pork should to our ground, which adds flavour and helps keep the meat more juicy.

Loaded Venison Sweet Potatoes Ingredients

Sweet Potato– As mentioned above you can use any variety of sweet potato you like. I always use Japanese purple sweet potatoes because they are my favourite.

Ground Venison– This recipe is delicious with ground venison, moose, elk, goat or whatever ground game meat you have.

Cheese– You can always switch this up to your liking. I like using either a sharp cheddar or a jalepeno jack cheese.

Bell Peppers– Any color you like will work. I like to use a combo of a couple different colours to make it look more colourful.

Onion- Red or yellow onion is fine for this recipe.

Spices– Chili powder, cumin, smoked paprika, and garlic powder are added to the meat while cooking.

Toppings– These can be your choice. Salsa, sour cream, guacamole, and cowboy candy are our favourite toppings to add.

The Steps

1. Preheat your oven to convection 400F or if you have an air fryer mode on your oven use that at 400F.
2. Take the sweet potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise.
3. Then, drizzle a couple tbsp of olive oil over a baking sheet, sprinkle some salt and pepper over the pan and then place the sweet potatoes flat side down on the baking sheet.
4. Roast the sweet potatoes for 20-25 minutes or until fork tender.
5. While the sweet potatoes cook, start by sautéing the peppers and onions with a tbsp of oil over medium heat.
6. Season them with a pinch of salt & pepper and 1/2 tsp chili powder. Cooking for 6-8 minutes or until the vegetables are tender but still firm.
7. Remove the vegetables from the pan, then add the ground venison and a couple tbsp of oil to that pan.
8. Brown the meat for a couple minutes then add in 1 1/2 tsp chili powder, the cumin, garlic powder, smoked paprika and 1tsp salt & pepper.
9. Continue to cook and break down the meat until it is fully cooked through. Remove from heat.
10. Finally, remove the sweet potatoes from the oven. Slice down the middle of each one to open them a bit.
11. Top with a handful of grated cheese followed by the peppers and onion, ground venison and top with sour cream, guacamole, salsa and some cowboy candy. Enjoy!

If you give this recipe a try, leave a comment or a recipe review below 🙂

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