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Wellness Mama » Blog » Recipes » Side Dish Recipes » Bacon Lime Sweet Potato Salad Recipe

Bacon Lime Sweet Potato Salad Recipe

March 22, 2019 (Updated: July 30, 2019)   —  by Katie Wells

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My family loves sweet potatoes. We grow and eat a lot of them (read about my first sweet potato growing experience) and I’m always excited to try new ways to use them. Bacon and lime are always a great combination and are delicious with the sweetness of the roasted sweet potatoes.

Bacon Lime Sweet Potato Salad

I prefer to dirty as few dishes as possible, so meals that can be made in one pan make me very happy. For this recipe, there’s no need to precook the bacon. Dice the bacon and put it in the bottom of a cast iron skillet or on a sheet pan. Then just toss diced sweet potatoes on top to roast.

While everything is cooking, I make a simple lime and balsamic vinaigrette to pour over the top.

This versatile recipe is delicious no matter how you enjoy it. You can either eat it warm from the oven or make it ahead and refrigerate it for a chilled side later. You can add eggs to the leftovers for a breakfast scramble, eat it as a stand-alone lunch, or add some leftover chicken for dinner.

More Sweet Potato Recipes to Enjoy

Like I said above, I’ve come up with a lot of sweet potato recipes over the years. Here are some other family favorites:

  • Loaded Sweet Potato Soup – What could be more satisfying on a cold day than sweet potato and squash soup loaded with spices, sausage, and onion and topped with cheese and bacon?
  • Stuffed Sweet Potatoes – Sweet potatoes stuffed with sausage, spinach, and cheese — they’re a complete meal or lunch to go.
  • Sweet Potato Fries – A kid favorite with mom-approved nutrition — serve with homemade ketchup.
  • Meatloaf Cupcakes with Sweet Potato Frosting – Yup, you read that right — delicious, healthy, and kid approved!
  • Sweet Potato Casserole – A real food version of the Thanksgiving favorite, made with homemade marshmallow topping.

Next I might try using my mandolin to make healthy sweet potato chips like these. I’ll bet they’d be delicious alongside homemade fish sticks.

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Bacon Lime Sweet Potato Salad Recipe

This delicious dish combines sweet potatoes, bacon, lime, and balsamic vinegar to create a flavorful and simple meal.
Course Main
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 8 people
Calories 160kcal
Author Katie Wells
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Ingredients

  • 8 slices bacon
  • 3 large sweet potatoes

Balsamic Lime Vinaigrette

  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • 2 TBSP balsamic vinegar
  • 1 lime (zested and juiced)
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 jalapeno
  • 2 green onions

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 425°F.
  • Dice the bacon and place it on a rimmed baking sheet or in a large cast iron skillet.
  • Peel and dice the sweet potatoes and place them on top of the bacon.
  • Roast in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until the bacon is crispy and the sweet potatoes are soft.
  • While the bacon and sweet potatoes are cooking, whisk together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and lime juice and zest.
  • Mince the jalapeno, garlic, and green onion and add it to the olive oil/balsamic mixture.
  • When the bacon and sweet potatoes are cooked, transfer them to a large serving bowl.
  • Toss with the vinaigrette and enjoy warm or cold.

Notes

This dish is awesome for any meal -- you can add leftover diced chicken or steak if you want to up the protein.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cup | Calories: 160kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 293mg | Potassium: 69mg | Vitamin A: 110IU | Vitamin C: 5.4mg | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 0.3mg

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What’s your favorite way to use sweet potatoes?

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About Katie Wells

Katie Wells, CTNC, MCHC, Founder and CEO of Wellness Mama and Co-Founder of Wellnesse, has a background in research, journalism, and nutrition. As a wife and mom of six, she turned to research and took health into her own hands to find answers to her health problems. WellnessMama.com is the culmination of her thousands of hours of research and all posts are medically reviewed and verified by the Wellness Mama research team. Katie is also the author of the bestselling books The Wellness Mama Cookbook and The Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox.

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Discussion (20 Comments)

  1. Amelie

    November 9, 2014 at 3:35 PM

    What’s the recipe like, please?

    Reply
    • Wellness Mama

      November 12, 2014 at 3:05 PM

      Like? Savory, tangy, and delicious!

      Reply
      • Rosaria

        November 12, 2014 at 4:02 PM

        No, sorry… I meant how do you make this dish?

        Reply
  2. Becky

    May 27, 2014 at 6:24 PM

    Congrats on your journey George! I’ve used several of your recipes before but had never read your bio. It’s always so exciting to hear about transformations in health 🙂 I’m excited to make this for my husband, two of his favorite foods! Thanks for sharing. I can’t wait for the new book – it looks incredible!

    Reply
  3. Audrey Christie McLaughlin

    May 20, 2014 at 6:22 PM

    I made this for my family last night and ate the left overs with a fried egg for lunch, amazing! Thank you for providing a way that I can enjoy sweet potatoes, because I really didn’t like them before.

    Reply
  4. amy

    May 19, 2014 at 5:40 PM

    Looks amazing! All my favorite flavors. Is this good cold/room temp?

    Reply
  5. Bey

    May 19, 2014 at 9:19 AM

    At the risk of sounding ignorant here – is this dish served hot or cold? If hot and a huge batch is made ahead, what is the best way to reheat WITHOUT using a microwave? We do LOVE sweet potatoes and here in SW florida we grow them all year. Thanks

    Reply
  6. Sarah

    May 18, 2014 at 4:02 PM

    This sounds delicious! I love sweet potatoes 🙂 A word of warning – my nutritionist told me not to use aluminum foil because it leaches into food and can make you ill. Thanks for the recipe, I’m off to your blog now 🙂

    Reply
    • Layla

      May 23, 2014 at 12:48 PM

      I’m glad that someone pointed that out. Aluminum foil does leach into food. And while it may be a stretch, autopsied Alzheimer’s patients have been found to have about five times the normal amount of aluminum in their brains. For this reason, we avoid anything with aluminum; baking powder, tin foil, most deodorants, etc. We have tons of Alzheimer’s in our family.

      Reply
  7. Anita

    May 18, 2014 at 3:44 PM

    Yay for kicking the bulimia!! Well done!! And your blog is seriously brilliant.

    Reply
  8. Rozanna

    May 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM

    What do I look for when buying bacon?

    Reply
  9. Valerie

    May 18, 2014 at 12:51 PM

    While this recipe sounds delicious, I can’t bring myself to make it because of the terrible suffering that pigs undergo on factory farms -thousands crowded into crates where they have no room to even turn round. That includes the sows who are forced to suckle their piglets through the bars as they lie down unable to get up. Many piglets die from falling through slats or getting trodden on by workers who have to wear masks because of the stench of ammonia from pigs who are forced to urinate and defecate where they are. At the end of their tortured lives they’re electric-prodded into the slaughterhouse, where they’re hoisted up by one limb so their throats can be cut.
    These animals are near, or at the top of, the animal IQ chain. When left to their own devices they are clean and family-oriented, making nests for their offspring. Some have been seen opening gates to rescue their brethren from confinement on smaller farms. (No chance of doing that on a factory ‘farm,’ which consists of huge sheds housing, as I wrote earlier, thousands of them. Many animals bang their heads against their crate bars and try to chew through them.
    They have the IQ of at least a three-year-old child. University research has shown them capable of solving complex puzzles and able to manipulate interactive videos using a joystick fixed in their mouths. One researcher placed them above the apes in intelligence. Don’t you think that it is exceptionally cruel and inhumane to treat them as objects who can’t feel fear and pain?
    Until meat eaters stand up and demand more humane treatment of all animals regarded as ‘food’ by humans, conditions will never get better. Please think about this the next time you go to choose meat at the supermarket and look at the pristine, plastic-wrapped packages.

    Reply
    • Katie - Wellness Mama

      May 20, 2014 at 1:33 PM

      I absolutely agree and I personally only buy pork from local and humanely raised sources but this is something I should write about soon.

      Reply
      • Peggy

        November 10, 2014 at 6:42 AM

        Where is the recipe? Thanks

        Reply
  10. Gena

    May 13, 2014 at 9:21 AM

    Yum! Bacon and sweet potatoes, two of my favorite things! Can’t wait to try this! Thanks!

    Reply
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