Cauliflower cheese sauce stuffed sweet potatoes with tempeh is an extremely satisfying comfort food.
Yet another comfort food. A very good one. Cauliflower cheese sauce stuffed sweet potato is a recipe that is extremely easy and simple to make, requiring just a few ingredients (give or take a topping). And it’s of course healthy, satisfying, vegan and gluten free. The tender, naturally sweet baked sweet potatoes go so well with the creamy, subtly spiced miso-cauliflower cheese, the fresh greens, the aromatic sun-dried tomatoes and the crispy tempeh. No-fuss recipe, that is filling, cheap and extremely tasty.
Oh yeah, stuffed sweet potatoes. Or potatoes. I am truly addicted. This is a STAPLE FOOD in our lives. It’s the food I always have as a ‘fast food’ on the go (Kumpir ♥︎) and as an ‘I have too many random things in my fridge food’. I truly love it. Creamy soups, random salads and stuffed potatoes are the best leftover savers, aren’t they? So here it is, another leftover-using recipe, though it can look so fancy, you would never guess it’s made out of fridge bottom ingredients. I hope you like it.
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Cauliflower Cheese Sauce Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 4 sweet potatoes
- 1/2 head of cauliflower
- 1/2 cup of nutritional yeast
- 1/2 cup of veggie broth or water
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 small chili pepper
- 1 tbsp white miso
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 3/4 cup of diced tempeh
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 4 sun-dried tomatoes
- 1 cup of kale
- 20 fresh basil leaves
- 1/3 cup of pecan nuts
Instructions
- Wash sweet potatoes, place them on a baking tray and use a fork to pierce a few holes into potatoes. Roast them at 180°C/360ºF for about 45 minutes or until fork-tender.
- Meanwhile cut cauliflower into large florets. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil, then add the cauliflower and cook for 15-20 minutes, until cauliflower is soft. Drain and let cool a bit.
- For the cheesy sauce add cooked cauliflower, nutritional yeast, broth, garlic, cayenne, chopped chili, miso, lemon juice and tahini to a blender and blend until completely smooth.
- Heat balsamic and apple cider vinegar together in a skillet. Add tempeh cubes and stir quickly to coat. Sauté over high heat until begins to turn crisp, about 5 minutes. Stir frequently.
- Prepare remaining toppings, such as chopped kale, basil, sun-dried tomatoes and pecans.
- To serve split open baked potatoes and gently press in on both ends. Fill each potatoes with cauliflower cheese and toppings. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 45 mins
- Category: Main
- Cuisine: Vegan
That’s the comfort food we should all be eating 😉 Lasting love and nutrition, but SOOOOO delicious!
Thanks, Rebecca! 🙂
You make the yummiest vegan comfort food!!! <3 I also always have sweet potatoes on hand. Always.
Sweet potatoes are the best 😀
What an amazing idea to put cauliflower cheese and sweet potatoes together. Genius!
Thanks, Esther 🙂
I do love sweet potatoes including stuffed, and I have paired it with many ingredients. However, I would have ever thought sweet potatoes would work with cauliflower. You have just proved it works:) Nice work Evi!
Thanks, Ben!
I love sweet potatoes so much, I pair them with anything and everything 😀
It sounds and looks delicious. I love leftover-using recipes too, I must make something like this at least once a week, very often on Sunday when I don’t want to spend too much time in the kitchen and when I tend to want to clean the fridge for the next week’s shopping.
The same here! I don’t know why, but I also love to empty my fridge on Sundays to have a fresh start for Monday 🙂
This is such a beautiful recipe, both in presentation and flavor. I love stuffed potatoes so much. I could eat one everyday.
Me too! 😀
Evi, every time I think that you couldn’t possibly top yourself with your latest delicious vegan recipe, you do it. Again! I would be hard pressed to think of a more satisfying comfort food than you cauliflower cheese sauce stuffed sweet potatoes! P.S. I laughed when you said this was a great “leftover saver.” I’m all about these kinds of recipes! 🙂
You are just the sweetest, Demeter 🙂
I LOVE cauliflower cheese sauce but have never had it with sweet potato! What a delicious creamy combo!
Thank you, Lucie 🙂
Looks so delicious! I love the pictures 🙂
Thanks, Josefine!
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Thanks!
this is soo delicious and i only put cauliflower cheese : ) you gave me idea for so much recipes ,thank you very much 🙂
Hey Monika, I’m so glad you like the recipe 🙂
Never had this combination of sweet potato and cauliflower.
will try it for sure.
I hope you will like it 🙂
I have a lot of sauce left! What else could I put it on?
Hi Alyssa,
You can use it as a dip for fresh or roasted veg, chips, or crackers. You can also turn it into a pasta sauce. Or serve it as a dressing/sauce for a veg, grain, or Buddha bowls. You can also bake with it – for example use it in your lasagne, cannelloni, or scalloped potatoes. But personally I just eat my leftover cheesy sauce with roasted potato wedges on the next day 😉
Perfect, thank you!!