Pulled Pork-stuffed Sweet Potatoes
These sweet potatoes are stuffed to the brim with tender, flavorful pulled pork and topped with all the fixings. They're a hearty and satisfying meal that's perfect for a chilly night in. Just grab a fork and dig in!
Total Time
8 hr 50 min
8 hr 50 min
Prep Time
30 minutes
30 min
Cook Time
8 hr 20 min
8 hr 20 min
Total Time
8 hr 50 min
8 hr 50 min
Prep Time
30 minutes
30 min
Cook Time
8 hr 20 min
8 hr 20 min
Ingredients
for 6 servings
- ½ yellow onion, sliced
- 1 pork loin, cut into 2-inch (5-cm) thick rounds
- salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups BBQ sauce (570 g), plus more for drizzling
- 3 sweet potatoes
- olive oil, to taste
- 1 cup shredded carrots (110 g)
- ½ purple cabbage
- green onion, for garnish
Nutrition Info
- Calories 423
- Fat 5g
- Carbs 70g
- Fiber 6g
- Sugar 44g
- Protein 23g
Estimated values based on one serving size.
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Preparation
- Layer bottom of crock pot with onion and lay pork loin on top. Season with salt, pepper, and garlic. Top with BBQ sauce.
- Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours.
- "Pull apart” the pork loin using two forks. Cover and let sit and move on to sweet potatoes.
- Preheat oven to 400˚F (200˚C).
- Using a fork, poke holes down one side of each sweet potato. Microwave for 3-5 minutes, or until softened. Let sweet potatoes cool before handling.
- Next, cut sweet potatoes in half and carve out the centers with a spoon, leaving a rim around the outside of each sweet potato.
- Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Add shredded carrots and purple cabbage to the shredded pork and combine.
- Fill sweet potatoes with pork, drizzle with BBQ sauce, and garnish with green onion.
- Enjoy!
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Tips
Highlights
- Bake sweet potatoes longer for a perfect texture! 🍠⏰
- Skip the scooping! Leave the skins intact for extra chewiness! 😋
- Switch up the protein! Try chicken or jackfruit for a twist! 🍗🥭
- Mix in some peas, corn, or broccoli for a colorful veggie boost! 🥦🌽
- Tweak the BBQ sauce! Less is more, or amp it up with more seasonings! 🍖✨
User Tips
janiceavocado
I don't eat pork so I used canned jackfruit to stuff the sweet potatoes, just as suggested by Tasty's Vegan Pulled Pork recipe. The jackfruit amazingly looks and taste just like pulled pork! I recommend it as an alternative for anyone who doesn't eat pork. 👍
6 years agoHelpful (17)
Amanda Piarino
Threw in a a roughly chopped habanero and spicy bbq sauce and it was good. Be careful not to scoop too much of the sweet potato out, otherwise the skins get a little too chewy. The extra pork, cabbage, and carrot mixture was used the next day on Hawaiian sweet rolls for lunch!
7 years agoHelpful (11)
Katrina Kelly
We chopped our sweet potatoes up instead of whole. Also didn’t have enough BBQ sauce so made our own mix of bbq, tomato & sriracha.. plus chilli.. great in the colder weather
6 years agoHelpful (8)
Bailey O'mara
My sweet potatoes took about 10 minutes in the microwave before I could even scoop the insides out. Besides that delicious!
6 years agoHelpful (8)
Aubry Morrison
Recipe is decent but next time I will add the carrot earlier so it cooks and gets soft. Also, I would add cole slaw instead of plain cabbage.
6 years agoHelpful (8)
Ella Taylor
Instead of wasting the middle of the sweet potatoes, I mixed inners into the pork/ cabbage mix. I would make this again.
5 years agoHelpful (5)
Brendan Hopkins
Made pulled pork sliders using "toasted" sweet potatoes as the buns
5 years agoHelpful (4)
agannon92
With the pork loin I used, the meat came out perfectly tender, but 2 cups of BBQ sauce was too much it smothered it. Next time I think we’ll only use 1 cup.
6 years agoHelpful (4)
Sandi Bednarz
I don’t find the sweet potato boats cook thoroughly so I just put the sweet potatoes on the side
6 years agoHelpful (4)
allien
I don’t know what kind of microwave you have but it took ten minutes for my potatoes to be soft enough to scoop so I only baked em for ten after and they came out good
6 years agoHelpful (4)amberbama
Don’t scoop out too much. You really don’t need to scoop out any sweet potatoes
6 years agoHelpful (4)
bobman
It was a great recipe and very filling ! Next time I’ll add some more spice to it. (Maybe some smoked paprika)
6 years agoHelpful (4)
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