Main Dishes
Curried Tuna Stuffed Sweet Potato
Prep
5 minutes
Cook
1 hour 20 minutes
Yield
2
Have you ever had a traditional British meal called the “Jacket Potato”? A jacket potato is a baked potato that has a crunchy skin on the outside with a soft and perfect texture on the inside. You can fill it with all sorts of fillings from keeping it simple with butter to adding all the fixings. This recipe for a Curried Tuna Stuffed Sweet Potato is my vegan twist on the traditional baked potato we all know and love.
Why you’ll love this recipe
- If you take out the time to roast the potatoes, this recipe is pretty quick & painless
- It’s versatile, keep reading for more inspo on how to stuff your potatoes
- It’s a great meal prep recipe that’ll fill you up
- It’s healthy but tastes so damn good
Vegan tuna? Yep!
If you haven’t been following some of my other tuna recipes, you’re seriously missing out on this amazing product I’ve been using lately. Good Catch Foods makes vegan-friendly tuna products that can be used as a substitute in any tuna recipe. Yep, VEGAN TUNA! They’re plant-based tuna tastes like the real thing but it’s made with a blend of plant protein that includes:
- Chickpeas
- Soy
- Peas
- Lentils
- Fava beans
- Navy beans
I seriously love using this product in recipes because they taste great and are full of protein that fills you up!
Make your own Stuffed Sweet Potato
What is so fantastic about this Stuffed Sweet Potato is how easy it is to make. It’s loaded with flavour, so you think it is complicated, but it’s not. I’ve stuffed this sweet potato with vegan tuna and with the combination of spices, you get that yummy curry flavour that pops!
You can really make your own concoction here with this recipe. Stuff these potatoes with anything your heart desires, use a regular baking potato versus a sweet potato, use your imagination to make a stuffed potato that is healthy, delicious, and your whole family will love. Get everyone involved in the making of these baked potatoes by preparing stuffings so everyone can make their own and personalize it the way they like.
Need some inspo? Stuff with one of these ideas:
- Your favourite chili recipes like this White Bean Chili or this Vegan Bean & Lentil Chili
- The creamy mushroom soup I used in these pot pies
- Plant-Based Baked Beans
No matter what your stuffing is, the key is to make these bad boys flavourful and how you’re going to do that is lightly rub them in oil and dust them with salt. Be patient with roasting them to achieve the best consistency!
Let’s see what you can come up with on your own in terms of why they will love it, I will be curious to see what you think will work! Overall, easy, delicious, high protein, versatile, meal prep!
Other tuna recipes you’ll love
- Asian-Style Tuna Lettuce Wraps
- Vegan Mediterranean Tuna Salad
- Tuna Vegan Cheese Ball
- Cheesy Vegan Tuna Casserole
Curried Tuna Stuffed Sweet Potato
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes russet potato or Chinese yam
- 1 tbsp. olive
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 medium-sized sweet white onion finely chopped
- 2 large garlic cloves finely chopped
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp fresh cracked pepper
- 1 tbsp. curry powder
- 1 tbsp. spicy curry powder
- 1 tsp. smoked paprika
- 1 tsp. cumin powder
- 2 Good Catch Foods Tuna packets
- 1 cup cashew milk
- handful fresh cilantro finely chopped
- 1/4 cup green onion finely chopped
- juice of 1/4 of a lime
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F and lightly rub your sweet potatoes, potatoes or yams with olive oil and lightly dust with salt. Wrap each one individually with tin foil and bake for at least 1 hour and 20 minutes. For optimal roasting, poke 4 holes in each potato with a small, very sharp knife.
- While your potatoes roast in the oven, prepare your curried tuna filling.
- Into a medium-sized pan, heat olive oil for 30 seconds before cooking the onion for 5 minutes on medium heat. Stir often to avoid burning. Once the onions have cooked down, add the garlic, and cook for 2 minutes, before adding all your spices and seasoning. Cook them down for 2-3 minutes, stirring to incorporate all the ingredients.
- Once your onions and garlic are soft and tender, increase heat to high and add the cashew milk. Bring mixture to a boil, add your two packets of Good Catch Foods Tuna and then simmer on low for 5-6 minutes. Turn heat off and set aside.
- Remove potatoes from the oven, gently cut a hole into the potato once cool to touch and press down on both sides of the cut to create a deep hole to begin stuffing.
- Before stuffing, little dust each potato with some salt and a little pinch of lime.
- Fill each potato with the desired amount of curried tuna and top with fresh chopped green onion, olive oil and cilantro.
You do know tuna isn’t vegan..right?
hi elizabeth, did you read the recipe, context of the post and the name of the vegan tuna brand? Just wanted to check because that’s the polite thing to do.
Wow. I was skeptical at first but this is a winning combination! Creamy and flavorful and best of all, travels well. I’m a flight attendant on the road constantly and this is a dynamite meal prep recipe. Thanks 🙂
So glad you loved this, Kristin!
Oh, my gosh…. YOU’RE NOT WRONG ABOUT THE POTATOES!! Be patient when making them… GAME-CHANGING!
Thank you so much for the love!
EXACTLY
LOVED THIS RECIPE! So easy to make and I also made this Mexican Style!
YES!!! Thanks so much for the love, Sophia!