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Southwestern Sweet Potato and Ground Beef Skillet

By Abra Pappa | Updated on January 17, 2023

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Southwestern Sweet Potato and Ground Beef Skillet

Loaded with fresh veggies and topped with cheese and avocado. A healthy, easy, and insanely delicious dinner that your whole family will love. Ready in 30 minutes!

Perfect for busy nights! Serve with warm Chocolate Chip Cookies for a comforting meal.

Southwestern sweet potato and ground beef skillet is loaded with fresh veggies and topped with cheese and avocado. A healthy, easy, and insanely delicious dinner that your whole family will love. Ready in 30 minutes!

Southwestern Sweet Potato and Ground Beef Skillet

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Hi, Eazy Peazy friends! Abra here from Abra’s kitchen popping in to share with you one of my all-time favorite quick and easy dinner recipes, Southwestern Sweet Potato and Ground Beef Skillet. Yum!

Southwestern sweet potato and ground beef skillet is loaded with fresh veggies and topped with cheese and avocado. A healthy, easy, and insanely delicious dinner that your whole family will love. Ready in 30 minutes!

I have been majorly into the skillet dinner trend, it’s the perfect way to get a healthy dinner on the table in no time flat, with super easy cleanup. This Southwestern Sweet Potato and Ground Beef Skillet is sure to please your entire family and is ready to rock and roll in just under 30 minutes. I am also in love with this Easy Mexican Rice Skillet and this Zucchini and Grass Fed Beef Skillet.

Sweet potatoes, ground beef, bell peppers, garlic, onion and southwestern spices all perfectly sautéed together in one, easy to cleanup skillet. Topped with cheddar cheese, creamy avocado and freshly diced tomato this skillet dinner serves 6, but I wouldn’t have a hard time knocking out the entire thing in one sitting. Just kidding, that would be crazy, I would save some for lunch the next day 🙂

Southwestern sweet potato and ground beef skillet is loaded with fresh veggies and topped with cheese and avocado. A healthy, easy, and insanely delicious dinner that your whole family will love. Ready in 30 minutes!

Southwestern Skillet Tips

  • The sweet potatoes are steamed in the skillet to reduce cook time.
  • A fun way to serve this southwestern sweet potato skillet is with a dipping tool, like an organic tortilla chip! Dip right into the sweet potato, cheese, and avocado goodness.
  • You could easily add, take out, or replace any of the vegetables in this skillet dinner. I’ve made it with zucchini and yellow squash, or Brussels sprouts would be delicious too!
  • This is the perfect example of my “mostly plants” food philosophy. Yes, this dish has ground beef but only 1 lb. and it serves 6, with a ton of plant-based (read: veggies) goodness to boot.
  • For a vegetarian version, you could easily swap black beans for the ground beef.
  • Fun health tip: Cooking in a cast iron skillet actually increases iron levels in the food. The iron from the pan leaches into the food and that’s a good thing! Especially if you are anemic or trying to increase iron content in your diet.
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Southwestern sweet potato and ground beef skillet is loaded with fresh veggies and topped with cheese and avocado. A healthy, easy, and insanely delicious dinner that your whole family will love. Ready in 30 minutes!

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Southwestern sweet potato and ground beef skillet is loaded with fresh veggies and topped with cheese and avocado. A healthy, easy, and insanely delicious dinner that your whole family will love. Ready in 30 minutes!

Southwestern Sweet Potato and Beef Skillet

Southwestern sweet potato and ground beef skillet is loaded with fresh veggies and topped with cheese and avocado. A healthy, easy, and insanely delicious dinner that your whole family will love. Ready in 30 minutes!
4.17 from 24 votes
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Course: Beef, Main Dish
Cuisine: Southwestern
Keyword: Beef, skillet, southwestern sweet potato and beef skillet, Sweet Potato
Prep Time: 7 minutes
Cook Time: 19 minutes
Total Time: 26 minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 349kcal
Author: Abra Pappa

Ingredients

  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 2 Tbs chili powder
  • 2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2.5 cups sweet potato-skin on diced (approx: 2 medium)
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1/2 cup onion diced (1 medium)
  • 1 cup red bell pepper diced 
  • 3 garlic cloves chopped 
  • 6 ounces baby spinach
  • 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese 
  • 1 cup diced fresh tomato You can use a vegetable chopper to get your veggies cut up faster.
  • 1 avocado sliced 

Instructions

  • Brown ground beef in a large cast iron skillet. Add 1 Tbs chili powder, 1 tsp garlic powder, and 1/4 tsp salt. Stir well to coat the beef with all of the spices. Cook for 5-7 minutes, or until well browned.
  • Remove beef from the skillet and reserve. Wipe out pan, remove all residual fat.
  • Add sweet potato to skillet with 1/2 cup water. Cover and cook for 5 minutes until the sweet potato is tender and the water absorbed.
  • Remove cover and add onion, bell pepper and garlic to the skillet and all remaining spices. Pour in additional 1/4 cup of water and stir well. Cook until onion is tender 5-7 more minutes. If mixture begins to stick add additional water 1/4 cup at a time and cook until completely evaporated. Add beef back to the skillet and stir well. Add spinach to the skillet, cover for 2-3 minutes or until spinach has wilted.
  • Remove skillet from heat and top with shredded cheese, freshly diced tomato, and diced avocado.
  • Serve immediately.

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Notes

I use a lean ground beef for this recipe at least 90%.
You could easily swap black beans for the ground beef for a vegetarian version

Nutrition

Calories: 349kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 17g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 58mg | Sodium: 377mg | Potassium: 912mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 12390IU | Vitamin C: 49.3mg | Calcium: 115mg | Iron: 3.5mg

Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.

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  1. Cassie says

    January 2, 2018 at 7:42 pm

    Made this for dinner tonight and loved it! We used ground turkey instead of beef. Delicious and a nice change up to our normal dinner routine. I served the dinner with cheese, avocado,, green onion, fresh tomato, and sour cream on top! The sour cream really brought it all together. Add it with some guacamole and chips and you’ve got an easy week night meal! We’ll definitely be making this again’
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    • Rachael says

      January 5, 2018 at 2:10 pm

      Thanks for taking time to comment Cassie, your serving suggestions are awesome. Yum! Now I want this for dinner.
      Reply
  2. jenna urben | the urben life says

    February 4, 2018 at 12:25 pm

    YUM! This is full of all my favorite tings, I need to try this ASAP.
    Reply
  3. Kelsey says

    March 11, 2018 at 8:19 pm

    Delicious! I used Chipotle chili powder, turned out great!!
    ★★★★★
    Reply
  4. Mia says

    October 24, 2018 at 7:20 pm

    This recipe is amazing! It’s so healthy and delicious. My husband and I loved it! Thank you so much for sharing it.
    ★★★★★
    Reply
  5. Pam says

    December 26, 2018 at 8:35 pm

    My kids and hubby loved this. Thank you for the easy recipe.
    ★★★★★
    Reply
    • Rachael says

      December 27, 2018 at 1:24 am

      Yay! So glad to hear this. Glad you enjoyed it.
      Reply
  6. Stacy says

    September 30, 2019 at 5:31 pm

    My husband hates sweet potatoes but loved this recipe!! So easy, so few dishes, very healthy with no added oils... delicious & filling.
    ★★★★★
    Reply
  7. Julia B. says

    February 2, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    We have served this over brown rice and over grits and loved it both times!
    ★★★★★
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