Name: Sweet Potato Bowl w/ Apples: Your New Breakfast on Repeat - Organic Authority
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 1-2
Ingredients: 1 small-medium sweet potato; ¼ cup plain or vanilla yogurt of choice (organic dairy, coconut, almond, etc.); 1 crisp apple chopped; 1 Tbsp coconut oil; ½ tsp cinnamon; ¼ tsp nutmeg; ¼ tsp ginger; Pinch of sea salt; 1 Tbsp tahini or peanut butter; Sprinkle of unsweetened coconut flakes

Make this sweet potato bowl and create the coziest morning ever! Move over pumpkin, there's a new fall flavor obsession in town!

Why limit vitamin-packed sweet potatoes to lunch and dinner? This nourishing sweet potato bowl for breakfast is not only the best addition alongside your collagen-spiked latte, but it provides plenty of slow-to-digest carbohydrates to fuel the day ahead. You’ve got a busy day ahead of you, after all.

Sweet Potato Bowl: Build A Better Breakfast Bowl

The standard American diet (aptly abbreviated as SAD) is filled with sugar-laden simple carbohydrates (and even worse, glyphosate), particularly when it comes to breakfast foods.

These refined and processed carbohydrates (bagels, white bread, pastries, cereal) lack fiber, which means they are digested quickly and have a high glycemic index.¹This leads to rapid spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels after meals. (Psst… you can read up on the science-backed ways apple cider vinegar can combat these woes and more.)

There’s a better way to start your day, and it involves healthy sweet potatoes in an easy-to-make breakfast bowl. These starchy and sweet vegetables contain complex carbohydrates to stabilize – not spike – blood sugar levels after eating.²

In fact, a particular sweet potato (the Caiapo variety) may even decrease fasting blood glucose and (bad) LDL-cholesterol levels, as well as increase insulin sensitivity in those with type-2 diabetes, according to one study.³

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A Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl With Soul

Nutrient Breakdown of Sweet Potato:

To make the most out of this nutrient-packed spud, eat it for breakfast. When combined with yogurt, cinnamon sautéed apples, and a drizzle of tahini or peanut butter for good measure, it’s the ultimate healthy breakfast bowl.

Healthy hack: To make this breakfast bowl even easier, batch cook the sweet potatoes and apples.

Bake a few potatoes at a time and keep in the refrigerator to have on hand throughout the week. For the apples, cube and saute with the spices as directed in the recipe below. They hold up well when stored in airtight containers (read our review of Caraway’s food storage here) and store in the fridge. When you’re ready for breakfast, simple warm up the sweet potatoes and apples and go from there!

Pro tip: Make more sweet potatoes than you think you need and store in the fridge. Scoop out the flesh to mash and use in smoothies, baked goods, and more for added nutrients and fiber.

Finally, don’t forget the peanut butter or tahini. It adds essential healthy fat, (which makes beta-carotene more bioavailable) and gives the breakfast bowl a sweet and salty taste that’s crave-worthy.

What’s your favorite easy breakfast? Please share with the community in the comments below!

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