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5 from 3 votes

Avocado & Sweet Potato Bake with Gruyère Cheese

Cuisine: Tex-Mex
Author: D. Durand Worthey

Ingredients

  • 3 ripe avocados
  • 1/2 cup artichoke hearts
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 medium sweet potato cut into 1" cubes
  • 1/2 cup sweet red bell pepper
  • 1/3 cup Gruyère shredded
  • 1/3 Gruyère sliced into thin shards.
  • 2 large cloves of garlic minced
  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin
  • sea salt or Kosher
  • freshly cracked black pepper

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350. Chop, slice, mince, and scoop avocados, sweet potatoes, red bell pepper, and garlic ahead of time, this will save tons of time when you are ready to put these bad babies together. Save the empty avocado skins because you'll need them to add the avocado mixture. Scrub, clean and chop sweet potato into 1" cubes, add one tablespoon of EVOO to a skillet over medium-high heat and brown potatoes, reduce to low heat and cook into a the tines of a fork can easily pierce the flesh of potatoes, about 15 - 20 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste. Keep warm until ready to use.
  • Scoop the flesh of two (2) avocados into a food processor, add artichoke hearts, add two tablespoons of EVOO, 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt, 1 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper and pulse until smooth.
  • Spoon mixture evenly into 6 avocado skins.
  • Place halved avocados on a pizza stone and bake for 15 minutes.
  • Remove from oven and roughly smash the contents of one avocado and add chunks evenly among the six avocado skins.
  • Add two to three sweet potato chunks to avocado skins.
  • Add a little bit of the shredded Gruyère cheese on top and place back into the oven on broil to melt cheese.
  • Remove from oven  and add sweet red pepper and shards of Gruyère cheese.
  • Drizzle with EVOO.
  • Serve with baked flour tortilla chips.