Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl is loaded with eggs, mushrooms, bell pepper, spinach, and cottage cheese for a high protein and fiber filled breakfast.
Why You’ll Love Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl Meal Prep
Preparing this recipe directly in the individual containers makes it the best meal prep hack. You will save time on cleaning up a baking dish and cutting up the sweet potato and egg bake to fit into the containers. It is my new favorite way to meal prep breakfast bowls.
Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl is high in protein and fiber to keep you feeling full and satisfied. Each meal contains 30 g protein and 6 g fiber. Eggs are an easy way to eat more vegetables that contain a variety of nutrients that provide great benefits to our bodies. The perfect breakfast that is ready to eat in the morning or easily take with you to work.
Cottage Cheese in My Eggs?
It might sound strange, but it is delightful. You can’t tell there is cottage cheese. It tastes cheesy and adds protein. The ¼ cup of cottage cheese per serving adds 7 g protein. With all of the vegetables and shredded cheese, you won’t even notice the cottage cheese. If you are concerned about the texture, then you can always blend cottage cheese before adding to the eggs.
Ingredients
- Eggs: a breakfast staple that provides protein, iron, and vitamins A, D, E, B12, and folate.
- Cottage Cheese: adds a protein boost and adds a cheesy flavor. Provides vitamin B12, calcium, and folate.
- Sweet Potato: provides fiber, potassium, and vitamins A, Bs, and C. You can also use regular potatoes.
- Mushrooms, Bell Pepper, and Spinach: breakfast bowls are an easy way to eat more vegetables. Use your favorites. Mushrooms provide vitamin D, zinc, and potassium. Bell peppers are high in vitamin C. Spinach provides zinc and iron.
- Shredded Cheese: cheese just makes everything better. Also adds more protein!
How to Make Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl Meal Prep
Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease 4 oven-safe meal prep containers and place on a sheet pan.
Place chopped sweet potatoes in a single layer in each meal prep container. Cook for 10 minutes.
While potatoes are cooking chop vegetables. Once potatoes have cooked for 10 minutes, remove and reduce oven temperature to 350°F. Evenly divide vegetables in containers. For eggs, you can either whisk 2 eggs and ¼ cup cottage cheese and add to each container or whisk all 8 eggs and 1 cup cottage cheese together and evenly divide among containers.
Sprinkle 1/2 tsp Everything Bagel seasoning to each container. Evenly divide shredded cheese to top each container.
Evenly divide shredded cheese to top each container.
Bake for 40-50 minutes or until egg and sweet potatoes are fully cooked. Stick a toothpick in a few sweet potatoes to test doneness. If it goes in smoothly, then it should be fully cooked.
Tips
- Whisk eggs before adding cottage cheese. It will mix more easily.
- Chop sweet potato into small pieces to ensure it cooks thoroughly.
More Breakfast Recipes
- Easy Sheet Pan Protein Pancakes
- High Protein Banana Bread Mug Cake
- High Protein Cottage Cheese Egg Bites
- Protein Packed Egg White Oatmeal
- Pumpkin Protein Baked Oatmeal
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Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl Meal Prep
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato, large (~500 g), chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
- 2 cups mushrooms, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 cup spinach, chopped
- 8 eggs
- 1 cup cottage cheese, 2%
- 2 tsp Everything Bagel Seasoning optional
- 3/4 cup shredded cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease 4 oven-safe meal prep containers and place on a sheet pan.
- Place chopped sweet potatoes in a single layer in each meal prep container. Cook for 10 minutes.
- While potatoes are cooking chop vegetables. Once potatoes have cooked for 10 minutes, remove and reduce oven temperature to 350°F. Evenly divide vegetables in containers.
- For eggs, you can either whisk 2 eggs and ¼ cup cottage cheese and add to each container or whisk all 8 eggs and 1 cup cottage cheese together and evenly divide among containers.
- Sprinkle 1/2 tsp Everything Bagel seasoning to each container.
- Evenly divide shredded cheese to top each container.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes or until egg and sweet potatoes are fully cooked. Stick a toothpick in a few sweet potatoes to test doneness. If it goes in smoothly, then it should be fully cooked.
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Notes
- Whisk eggs before adding cottage cheese. It will mix more easily.
- Chop sweet potato into small pieces to ensure it cooks thoroughly.
Would I be able to freeze this?
Hi Michelle! Yes, these should freeze well. After letting it cool completely, it can be moved to the freezer.
I don’t have enough meal prep containers that are oven safe so what size baking casserole dish should I use?
Hi Alissa! A 9×13 inch casserole dish should work. It will likely need a little extra cooking time.
Thank you!
You’re welcome!
What a great idea for a protein-forward, healthy-carb meal. I switched up the seasonings and used ingredients I had on hand- and they still came out great! Thank you for this stellar idea!
( Subbed “Everything but the Elote Seasoning”, & some Ranch dressing powder in the eggs.
Subbed blackened corn for the other veggies, and added bacon.) Next time I’ll use the spinach and mushrooms for greater nutrient density.)
Your substitutions sound delicious, Leslie! Glad you enjoyed it! This recipe is great for swapping ingredients for what you have on hand and prefer.
How long would you recommend baking these if baking in a muffin tin? Would you bake at same temp or adjust?
Hi Rebecca! The temp can stay the same and reduce the time to about 25-35 minutes. It would be similar to my egg bite recipe here.