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Loaded Sweetpotato Nachos

This loaded sweetpotato nachos recipe is an easy vegetarian nachos recipe, great for a quick weeknight dinner, or even a pantry meal! Customize your toppings for these ultimate plant based nachos. 

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Please note that sweetpotatoes is spelled as one word throughout this article, which is the proper spelling. You can learn more here.

This sheet pan sweetpotato nachos first came about as an appetizer for football season.

We all know that football food is the best part of the sport, and who wouldn’t like a gooey mixture of sweet potatoes and black beans, plus corn and cheese, tomatoes and whatever you’d please?

This sweetpotatos nachos recipe takes the cake for the ultimate healthy football appetizer, and are great to mix and match with some of your other favorites.

Have you tried these Sweetpotato Pretzel Bites yet!? Or this Mexican Corn Dip?

loaded sweet potato nachos on baking sheet with vegetarian toppings

These sweet potato and black bean nachos are also great for summer nights, or heck, any busy weeknight. Or even a fun lunch idea when you’re sick of sandwiches.

This nachos recipe comes together with minimal ingredients and can really be put together based on what you have. 

We like to make a bunch in advance and have them post run!

What You Need For Loaded Sweetpotato Nachos

Keep in mind, you can personalize these to YOUR liking.

If you want to make your sweet potato nachos vegan, simply leave out the cheese, or use a vegan cheese mixed with nutritional yeast for a “cheesy” dairy free nachos version. 

Here’s what I used:

  • sweet potatoes
  • black beans
  • shredded cheese
  • corn (canned or frozen)
  • tomatoes (canned or fresh)
  • mini peppers
  • spices
ingredients for loaded sweet potato nachos

Other Topping Ideas for Sweetpotato Nachos Vegetarian Style

Get as creative as you’d like with this sweetpotato nacho recipe. You don’t have to just keep them as vegetarian nachos with beans. 

I find that kids love decorating them with their favorites – sweetpotatoes are great for toddlers!

Consider adding:

  • crushed tortilla chips
  • avocado
  • greek yogurt or sour cream
  • pinto bans or garbanzo beans
  • soy crumbles
  • shredded chicken, pork, chorizo beef (if not vegetarian)
  • cilantro
  • jalapeno

How To Make Sweetpotato Black Bean Nachos (Plant Based Nachos Version)

The next time you find yourself looking for a recipe for sweet potato and black nachos, save this!

To make life easier, try to find thin sweet potatoes – thin and long. If you can’t find those, any sweet potatoes will do. Just take care when cutting them!

You’ll want a sturdy cutting board. You’re going to slice the sweet potato lengthwise, into coin shapes. 

Sweet potato cut into coins roasted on baking sheet

You don’t want them too thick where they don’t cook evenly. But, you also don’t want them too thin where they’ll get mushy and you can’t add many toppings.

I usually cut them about an inch thick. 

How to Cook Sweetpotato Nachos 

Before adding the toppings, I like to bake the sweet potatoes as a base.

To do so, set the oven to 425 and bake for 40-45 minutes, flipping them once.

Make sure you do flip them to make sure both sides cook evenly! I need to test sweet potato chips in the air fryer soon to speed things up.

But I also enjoy multi tasking while these chips crisp up in the oven. 

While the sweet potatoes are baking, cook your beans and corn and any other veggies.

cut sweet potatoes on sheet pan topped with beans, tomatoes and shredded cheese

Once the sweet potatoes are done, add your toppings, adding the cheese last.

I like to lay the sweet potatoes close together on a baking sheet so it’s okay if the toppings fall off or cheese gets between the sweet potato nachos.

I actually think having the cheese melt over everything makes these vegetarian nachos taste that much better!

All the flavors covering the tops and sides of the potato nachos. 

Why I Love This Sweetpotato Nachos Recipe So Much

I seriously love this sweetpotatoes nachos recipe SO MUCH. There are so many reasons to make this in your own kitchen, oven or air fryer. 

Here’s why.

  • They are cheesy
  • Totally customizable (as mentioned earlier, enjoy them as sweet potato vegetarian nachos or add meat!)
  • Higher nutrient bang for your buck than tortilla chips (and lower sodium version)
  • Great for crowds, gatherings, parties, etc. 
  • Easy to prepare (Just cut the sweet potatoes and then layer your favorites)
closeup of sweet potato black bean nachos on sheet pan topped with black beans, corn and cheese|

These nachos with sweet potato are a recipe that we make quite often during the week because there’s not much manual labor involved aside from cutting the sweet potatoes and vegetables.

You let the oven do all the work!

I just realized as I’m typing this that you could totally do this with sweet potato fries as well. They would be like sweet potato “cheesy fries,” another winner in my book. 

So if you aren’t too keen on sweet potato discs or nachos, sweet potato fries or sweet potato nacho fries with all the toppings may be a good option!

loaded sweet potato nachos in blue serving bowl topped with avocado and sour cream

You can also make any of these other easy recipes with sweet potatoes for a crowd!

Other Recipe Ideas for Kids

Healthy sweet potato nachos are great for kids because you can have the kids help you make them, and add their favorite toppings as you go. Similarly, sweetpotato spaghetti is well loved by kids and toddlers!

Some other kid-friendly recipes they may love include these kid friendly french toast sticks,  sweet potato pizza crust and sweet potato turkey burgers.

These sweet potato and vegetarian black bean nachos are even better in the late fall/winter months because they are comforting.

Sweet potatoes are nice and starchy, meaning good cool weather, comfort food, and black beans make these plant based nachos even more supreme.

If you love these nachos, please leave a review and tag me on social media (#bucketlisttummy).

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Yield: 3

Loaded Sweet Potato Nachos

closeup of sweet potato nachos on sheet pan topped with black beans, corn and cheese| Bucket List Tummy

These customizable sweet potato black bean nachos are great as a weeknight dinner, vegetarian nachos recipe, or football food. Easy to make for groups and great for kids!

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients

  • 2 sweet potatoes
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 3/4 tsp italian seasoning
  • 1/2 tsp cumin
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • 1/2 cup corn (can use canned/frozen)
  • 1 cup black beans
  • 1/2 cup peppers, sliced
  • 1/2 cup grape tomatoes, sliced
  • 1 cup shredded cheese (I used cheddar)
  • Tortilla chips for topping
  • Toppings: Avocado, Greek Yogurt, Sour Cream, Salsa

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 and line a baking sheet with cooking spray
  2. Slice sweet potato into ¼ inch coins and place in large bowl. To large bowl, add olive oil and spices and arrange evenly over potato coins.
  3. Transfer rounds to baking sheet, and top with sea salt and pepper
  4. Bake for 40-45 minutes, turning them halfway
  5. While they are cooking, cook your corn and black beans, and slice your peppers and tomatoes.
  6. Once sweet potatoes are done, transfer to baking sheet (they should be close and piled on each other), and top with beans, peppers, tomatoes, cheese and chip crumbles.
  7. Turn oven down to 400 and bake them for an additional 5-7 minutes, or until cheese melts.
  8. Top with avocado, more chips (if desired) and greek yogurt or sour cream.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

3

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 534Total Fat: 31gSaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 18gCholesterol: 42mgSodium: 491mgCarbohydrates: 45gFiber: 12gSugar: 11gProtein: 23g

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  1. Dang, these look good! I’ve never tried sweet potato nachos — now we know what I’ll be up to this weekend! hehe Thanks so much for sharing — your site is great!

  2. My family loves nachos. And I bet they gonna love when I make them this recipe. Looks fantastic! And it’s so healthy too. Oh, I can wait to give this a try.

  3. YUM!!! I need to try these because I’m all about nachos! I have some extra sweet potatoes too!

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  5. What a great idea!! My kids just harvested tons of sweet potatoes from our garden! I think we need to make these soon…

    1. I bet they would have tons of fun decorating them in the kitchen. That’s so neat that you grew them in your garden! 🙂

  6. Yaassssss.. I’ve been making versions of sweet potato nachos for years now. As soon as I discovered the combination of melty cheese on sweet potatoes I was completely addicted. So easy. So friggen delicious. Love your idea to add some tortilla chips on top for crunch!

  7. This recipe looks awesome! It’s so creative. I love sweet potato anything, so I’ll have to give this recipe a try. I usually don’t eat cheese, so I wonder if a sprinkle of nooch on top would suffice?

    I have a whole bunch of avocados that need used…so guacamole with these nachos…be still my heart <3

    1. Nooch would definitely be yummy, it may not be the extra cheesiness though! But the guac would definitely be a must!!

  8. I love sweet potato nachos! Alex and I had a love affair with them last year, but we haven’t made them since. That needs to change!

    1. I think they will be my new go to when I don’t know what to make and wants something easy and yummy!

  9. I have a surplus of sweet potatoes right now so these might have to make an appearance on the dinner table very soon! YUM.

  10. Omggg, sweet potato nachos, seriously, why have I not thought of doing that before??
    This looks delicious, what an awesome twist on the original nachos!
    Off to fill out that survey now!

  11. WOAH, how in the world did you gather so many recipes? And these look like they would take nachos up about 20 notches. I absolutely love smothering nachos with all the toppings. 🙂

    1. Fortunately, it was a virtual collaboration that a few bloggers created. It’s pretty awesome! Nachos must have all the toppings and cheese, right?!

  12. Awesome flavor combo! I’d probably spice them up a bit more with some jalapenos but I’m a heat fanatic.

  13. Oh my brother would totally laugh in my face if I brought this over for football, but thats ok because that means more for me!! 😉

  14. I am SO making these…probably this weekend. Thanks for the great idea, Sarah!! I’m glad that #FoodieFootballFans introduced me to your blog.

  15. I love football! I’ve gotten to where I can watch most the game, with a few breaks here and there. Nachos are so good and I love this more nutritious take here! Thanks for sharing ALL those recipes with us!

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