I’m just really into comfort food this week. Obviously. Like yesterday’s french toast. Uhhhh yeah, that’s comfort food at it’s max. This recipe is pretty comforting as well. Like a blanket of happiness wrapped around meats. Ha. And since we don’t eat tortillas in this little paleo community of ours, I had to turn to the next best thing. Sweet potatoes. BOOM. This meal would be a wicked good post wod meal. I did it. I ate it on the couch in pain after a thruster and handstand push up workout. Worst.Combination.EVER.
OMG guess what? I’m going to L.A. soon! Yes, I’m going to California. Really just for fun. I need to get the hell out of Colorado for at least a weekend. See other people. See other gyms. Yep, that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m going to visit friends in California with my friend Sergio and we are hitting up his old gym, CrossFit South Bay. Have you ever checked out their website? It’s wicked cool. And they have people that are cool as hell there. Especially my friend Ashley. She’s another Paleo blogger at PaleoMadeline. And hilarious. She’s may be as weird as I am so I, of course, love her. I can’t wait until our weirdness explodes together in the L.A. area. Sh*t is gonna get real.
And since I will be in the gym or at a restaurant most of the time while I’m in Cali, it will be difficult to make a cooking video. SO, I’m going to video everything I eat and do. Minus going to the bathroom. That just is way too personal. And I’m not a person that shares my personal business. HA, I got jokes!! Anywho, instead I will be showing everything I eat when I go to different restaurants (paleo or not), hoping to video my CrossFit Open wod at CFSB, as well as any weird sh*t Sergio does. Hopefully it’s at least PG-13. Knowing him, it won’t be, and a lot of editing will have to occur.
Ooo, guess what I got to do! I got to write a guest post for an amazing woman named Kim on her website Trainer Kim. She has an incredible story and looks absolutely fantastic! Her site is all about becoming the best you through understanding what you are putting in your body as well as how you are taking care of your body. She has some great information ranging from diet, to how to decrease your stress levels, to easy ways to eat out at restaurants. Awesome information, be sure to check her out!
PS-This is probably the most time consuming recipe I have ever made. But it’s worth it. If you don’t make it, I pity you. Seriously.
Sweet Potato Enchiladas
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
For the enchiladas
- 3 sweet potatoes, sliced thin lengthwise with a mandoline
- 1lb grass fed ground beef
- 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 (4oz) can diced green chiles
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 3–4 tablespoons Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil
For the sauce
- 1 (14oz) can tomato sauce
- 1/4 yellow onion, minced
- 1/3 cup vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- salt and black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Now to make our “tortillas” from our sweet potatoes. Use a mandoline to thinly slice your sweet potatoes lengthwise. (You can use a knife but I found I couldn’t get the thinness I wanted or consistency with each slice with using a knife)
- Heat up a large skillet or griddle and place 2 tablespoons of coconut oil in it. When skillet is very hot and coconut oil has melted, add your sweet potatoes. Cook your sliced sweet potatoes for 3-5 minutes per side or until sweet potatoes are soft. You DO NOT want them crispy. (You may have to do this a couple of batches so keep coconut oil on hand.) Do as many batches as you need to and place sweet potato slices on a paper towel to remove excess oil and cool while you cook your meat.
- Once your sweet potatoes are cooling, use the same skillet to cook your meat. Add in a bit of oil then add your minced garlic cloves along with your onion.
- When the onion becomes translucent, add in your ground beef along with your green chiles and spices. Let that cook down until cook completely through, using a wooden spoon to break up the ground beef and incorporate all the flavors.
- While the meat cooks, place a saucepan over medium heat for your sauce. Add your tablespoon of oil along with your minced onion.
- When the onion becomes translucent, add your tomato sauce and vegetable broth, as well as all your seasonings. Let that cook down until it thickens just a bit.
- Now once everything is done cooking, it’s time to use your fingers!
- Pull out an 8×8 or 9×9 glass baking dish, add a spoonful of enchilada sauce on the bottom and start building your enchiladas.
- Each enchilada should take 3 slices of a sweet potato. Place a slice down in the dish, then another half way on top, then another half on top of the second slice. It should be a feathering or fan effect. Now place a spoonful or two of your meat mixture in the center of your sweet potatoes, then wrap your sweet potatoes over the meat, tucking the ends underneath the other ends of the sweet potatoes (like a tortilla).-see first picture for an example
- Repeat until all your sweet potatoes are gone. If you are have leftover meat, place that around your enchiladas.
- Pour your enchilada sauce on top.
- Place in oven and bake for 15 minutes.
- Cool then eat your heart out!
This looks great. Have you tried the Pure Wraps? I have been curious about ordering some but have not yet.
I’ve never heard of those Tonya…
sweet baby jesus…i gotta stop looking at your page…i get hungry every time im here, its horrible.
im buying a mandoline this week…end of subject
its been on my list of things to buy for ages and im making these bad boys this weekend.
They are a life saver! I love mine
F***! You are killing me this week. Pretty sure this is going to be put into next week’s menu…squat then eat enchilada…brilliant
Hope they turn out great Rob!
so excited! i wanted to try and make enchiladas with sweet potatoes and now you’ve blazed the way. these look amazing!!!
Hope you like them Grace!
THIS IS SO CREATIVE!!
I love you name. period.
My roommate and I will let you live for free in our apartment in DC if you cook for us every day. Just made these, tasted like, what I can only imagine, angel kisses taste like.
Lol but then I would be in DC and not Denver, that’s just not as fun!! Glad you liked it Tiffany 🙂 picture looked awesome!!
Thrusters and HSPUs are my favorites!… but you’re right… they don’t mix together well.
And how have I not tried this combination of sweet potatoes and beef, yet? I’ll be making some this weekend after the too-amazing-not-to-try Banana Bread French Toast.
You haven’t had SP and Beef together!? OMG you’ve been missing out. Be sure to check out my post tomorrow. The two things go together again in perfect harmony
SP and ground beef are are staple in my house… usually as a post-WOD hash that I throw together. Shredded sweet potatoes… mmm…
Perfection for post wod!
I hope it tastes as good as it looks, nice photography!
Thanks Jason!
Am I missing the directions for the sauce? Do you just mix everything together? Does it simmer together at all or just mix and pour on?
Check out step 6 Shanna 🙂
These look incredible!! And what a great healthy way to eat the food you love. I’m definitely going to give them a try.
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Thanks so much for the tip Aubrie!