Heart-Healthy, Easy Sweet Potato Recipes with Bako Sweet
In this segment, Registered Dietitian, Veronica Rouse will explore the incredible versatility and heart health benefits of sweet potatoes with Bako Sweet's "Sweeten Your Everyday" campaign. Highlighting recipes for every meal, including savory stuffed sweet potatoes for lunch, innovative sweet potato toast for breakfast, and a nutritious lentil and sweet potato salad demonstrating the adaptability of sweet potatoes across various eating occasions. For more information visit https://www.bakosweet.com/ and www.theheartdietitian.com
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00:00 - The following portion of the Arizona Daily Mix
00:02 is sponsored on behalf of Baco Sweet
00:04 by Veronica Rouse Consulting.
00:06 - As we finish up Heart Health Month,
00:10 it's a perfect time to spotlight Baco Sweet Potatoes.
00:13 And last week I talked with registered dietitian,
00:15 Veronica Rouse, about how some easy recipes
00:19 you can make with sweet potatoes.
00:21 Hi, Veronica, how are you?
00:25 - Good, thanks.
00:26 How are you, Brad?
00:27 - I'm doing very well.
00:28 'Cause it's some reason I have really gotten
00:30 into sweet potatoes because of different ways
00:33 that you can enjoy them.
00:33 So let's talk about, of course, Baco Sweet Potatoes
00:37 and how they fit into our heart healthy lifestyle.
00:40 - Exactly.
00:42 Yes, thank you for having me back
00:43 to continue to celebrate Heart Health Month in February.
00:47 I'm here with Baco Sweet to talk about
00:49 how sweet potatoes can enhance your heart health.
00:52 So it's not just me, a registered dietitian,
00:55 saying that sweet potatoes are good for you.
00:57 Saying that sweet potatoes can enhance your heart health.
00:59 But the American Heart Association
01:01 also has this badge of honor they put on the Baco Sweet,
01:05 Baked Potato Bag, saying that it's
01:07 an American Heart Association certified heart healthy food.
01:11 - I like that.
01:12 Now, I know we know sweet potatoes and baked potatoes
01:15 for, of course, dinner, but can they be used
01:17 for other, of course, delicious dishes throughout the day?
01:21 - Exactly.
01:22 Yes, when I'm talking to my clients
01:25 about how to include more sweet potatoes,
01:27 they're usually thinking mainly dinner,
01:30 but I wanted to highlight some ways
01:32 to include them for breakfast and lunch, as well as snacks.
01:36 So we'll start with breakfast.
01:38 I have a breakfast baked potato,
01:41 kind of like a loaded baked potato you would make for dinner
01:45 with some, traditionally, I guess, for dinner,
01:47 it'd be baked beans or guacamole, salsa,
01:50 something like that for breakfast.
01:53 You can do the same, but I usually have the base
01:56 as a Greek yogurt for some protein,
01:59 and then some fruit that could be dried or fresh.
02:02 And my kids always love to top it
02:05 with some chocolate chips, too,
02:06 so you can have a little bit of fun with it.
02:08 (both laughing)
02:09 - I like that.
02:10 All right, what do you have for us?
02:12 - Yeah, then next I have a lunch.
02:14 So this is a sweet potato toast.
02:17 And the great thing about Baco Sweet sweet potatoes
02:19 are they're super quick to make.
02:22 All you have to do is put them in the microwave
02:24 for about five minutes and they're cooked.
02:26 So you could do the same with a baked potato for breakfast.
02:28 And then what I did here was I just sliced that baked potato
02:32 in maybe a quarter inch thick slices.
02:35 So instead of the bread that we typically have for our toast,
02:39 we're just gonna substitute the bread out
02:41 and substitute the sweet potato in.
02:44 And then you can just layer it with traditional toast toppings.
02:47 So I have a savory mozzarella, tomato,
02:52 basil with balsamic vinegar,
02:54 as well as a trendy avocado toast.
02:58 And then another peanut butter and jam
03:01 or peanut butter and fruits
03:02 topped with some nuts and seeds.
03:04 So lots of different combinations,
03:06 but lot more heart-healthy nutrients.
03:08 You have the fiber, the potassium, the vitamin A.
03:11 It's gonna keep you full until dinner.
03:13 - Okay, very quickly, Veronica,
03:14 before we go to the next dish, explain again,
03:16 do we toast the baked potato, the sweet potato,
03:21 or what do we do there?
03:23 - Yeah, exactly.
03:23 You could do it two ways.
03:25 One is you can bake the baked potato in the microwave.
03:29 So you can put it in the microwave for about five minutes
03:31 and then slice it, or you could put it on the stovetop.
03:35 So slice it into that quarter inch thick slices
03:39 and then grill it on the stovetop.
03:40 So either way will work.
03:41 - All right, I like that.
03:42 And then a salad.
03:44 Everyone forgets, you enjoy it with salad.
03:46 - Exactly.
03:48 And I'm all about quick dishes.
03:50 So all of these dishes actually come together
03:52 within 20 minutes.
03:53 But basically I throw in the green lentils
03:56 into the InstaPot at the same time
03:58 as I'm microwaving my baked potato for five minutes.
04:02 Then you chop up some red onions, some parsley,
04:05 some extra virgin olive oil and vinegar for dressing.
04:08 And it comes together really quickly, but it's so delicious.
04:12 Lots of fiber, lots of heart-healthy nutrients there.
04:15 That's gonna support your heart health in the long run.
04:18 - I like that.
04:19 And I think when people hear sweet potatoes,
04:20 they think, okay, it's gonna be very, very sugary
04:23 or very, you know, not good for you, but not really.
04:26 It's the other way around, right?
04:28 - Exactly, yeah.
04:29 I always think of it as like an elevated white potato
04:31 because you have all those extra nutrients
04:33 that are making it sweeter.
04:35 - I like that.
04:36 Okay, where can we find more about the Baco Sweet Potatoes
04:39 and all these great heart-healthy dishes?
04:42 - Yes, so you can find Baco Sweet Potatoes
04:45 at your local grocery store, Walmart, Sprouts has them.
04:49 And I would check out their website too, bacosweet.com,
04:52 because they have so many wonderful recipes
04:55 that you can use to sweeten your everyday.
04:57 - So there it is.
04:58 Veronica, thank you very much for joining us this morning.
05:00 Always a great, healthy dish you bring to us.
05:03 So appreciate it.
05:05 - My pleasure.
05:06 - Thank you.
05:07 - The preceding portion of the Arizona Daily Mix
05:11 was sponsored on behalf of Baco Sweet
05:13 by Veronica Rouse Consulting.
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