Wow the fam with these amazing grilled sweet potato pizzas! All you need is sweet potatoes, your favorite marinara sauce or pesto, mozzarella, and your favorite pizza toppings for this healthy 30 minute meal.
I think we just invented the most amazing grilled pizza of our lifetime. I actually got inspired from my girl Kelsey from Little Bits Of, the inventor of sweet potato toast. What a genius idea to pop a sweet potato slice into a toaster, eh? As you know, sweet potatoes are a staple food in the Fit Foodie diet, so we decided to slice our taters like Kelsey did and take things to the grill.
I’D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO SWEET POTATO PIZZA.
No pizza crust is needed because you just replace it with a grilled sweet potato slice. Oh, and it only takes 15 minutes to make. Buh bye 30 minute meal…hello 15! Don’t be afraid of the grill, ladies. It’s actually really easy to do and there’s so much more flavor. A little bit of char goes a long way.
We kept these little pizzas very basic knowing that there is about a million different ways you can top them. We did go back and forth between a marinara and pesto. Both equally as amazing and full of flavor. On top of your sauce you have a sprinkle of mozzarella and some fresh basil. Finger lickin’ good shit right there.
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Easy Grilled Sweet Potato Pizzas
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet potato
- 1/3 cup organic marinara sauce (OR 1/4 cup pesto)*
- 1/3 cup mozzarella cheese
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- fresh basil
Instructions
- Preheat grill to 375ºF (alternatively you can use your oven).
- Slice sweet potatoes length wise (about 1/4 of an inch thick), rub with olive oil (or spray with olive oil cooking spray) and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Lay a piece of tin foil onto the grill and spray with olive oil cooking spray.
- Place sweet potatoes onto tin foil and grill for 10 minutes or until you’ve created beautiful grill marks on your sweet potato slices. Then, flip.
- Add 1 tablespoon of marinara sauce (or 1/2 tablespoon of pesto) and one tablespoon mozzarella cheese to each sweet potato slice and grill for an additional 3-5 minutes or until cheese is melted.
- Remove from grill and top with fresh basil.
Tips & Notes
*Nutrition information includes marinara sauce, not pesto!
*We wrote the recipe to serve 2, but know that you can easily double or triple this to serve more.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 2 Calories: 183 Sugar: 7 Sodium: 299 Fat: 8 Carbohydrates: 21 Fiber: 3 Protein: 7Similar recipes:
If you make this recipe don’t forget to tag us and use the #FitFoodieFinds hashtag. I hope this becomes a summer staple for you. I know it’s going to at Fit Foodie HQ.
Yumi! This looks tasty
Great idea for a low carb pizza meal. I made these on the grill yesterday and they came out great. The key ingredient to tie it all together is the fresh basil on top. It adds a nice flavor complement to the other ingredients.
Amazing idea. Excellent job. Keep writing
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Yummy! I love this recipe. This is my favorite. But I want to make it normal potato, not the sweet potato. Because sweet potato I don’t like. If I make this recipe with potato, will it change the taste?
Hey Karen! Go for it. The flavor will differ just because normal potatoes and sweet potatoes taste so different!
Sweet Potato pizza recipe is awesome.I like it very much. Though pizza increase fat but still I love pizzas very much from my childhood I am a pizza lover. I have tasted many types of pizzas in my life but grilled sweet potato pizza will my first experience. I will definitely try this recipe at my home when I have time and share my experience on twitter with the hashtag FitFoodieFinds.
Can you cook the sweet potatoes in a pan on the stove rather than on the grill? If so, how long would you cook them?
Absolutely! I would bake them for about 15-20 minutes at 375!
I just LOVE the idea of using sweet potatoes!!!
What a clever idea, these look delicious!
Love this idea! Definitely will have to try this. Thanks for sharing!
Do you flip and roast an additional 10 minutes before adding the toppings? Or just ten minutes on one side and the additional five with the toppings? Just want to make sure I’m roasting for long enough to soften the sweet potato!
It should only need to cook for around 15 minutes total! But it all depends on how thick you cut your sweet potato 🙂
These look delicious! I didn’t care much for sweet potatoes growing up but I love them now. I definitely need to give this a try. I’ve been craving pizza but avoiding breads and doughs.
SAME! I used to think they were weird and now it’s all I eat!
Yum yum yum! Can’t wait to try!
Holy crap this is GENIUS!!!! Perfect for summer! Cannot wait to try!
<3 hope you love it!!
LOVE!!! Thanks for the shoutout lady! I need to try grilling it asap!! 🙂 XO
DUH!!!!! How could I not?!
Such a great idea!!! OMG!
Oooh I love this! I’ve stuffed sweet potatoes with all sorts of things, but never pizza. Gotta get on that!
YAS!!
I can’t wait to make these! This sounds like heaven to me!!
I can’t wait to try these! I will test them on a real Italian aka, Grandma❤️
🙂 Hopefully she loves em!
Awesome sweetpotato pizza never tried one look yummy would surely try.