Looking for a low-carb dinner or full alternative to regular nachos? Try these sheet pan low-carb loaded sweet potato nachos! Thinly sliced sweet potatoes are roasted and topped with taco meat, cheese and beans and baked until bubbly and gooey. Top with your favorite nacho toppings like tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream, fresh cilantro, or jalapenos! These nachos can be made with ground beef, shredded chicken, chorizo, or left meat-free!
Even if you’re not trying to eat low carb, these are a fun alternative to tacos or nachos. The sweet potatoes are an easy way to get in some extra fiber and the taco meat combined with the beans adds a good serving of protein. These are best eaten with a fork as they don’t hold up quite the same as a tortilla chip.
You might also like these Doritos nachos or crispy taquitos. Find all of my dinner recipes here for more inspiration!
Recipe Highlights
- High Protein Dish: ground beef, canned beans, and cheese provide about 40 grams of protein per serving! Serve with a dollop of Greek yogurt for even more.
- Family Friendly: kids and adults will love this idea and it is a fun way to sneak in some veggies. Customize toppings to everyone’s liking or create mini nacho pans and have people create their own.
- Endless Toppings: there are so many ideas for topping these nachos, think if what you traditionally like on tacos and regular nachos. Such as shredded lettuce, queso cheese, guacamole or avocado, cilantro, jalapenos, sour cream, or pickled red onions.
- 30-minute Meal: this filling dish can be made in under 30 minutes and comes together easily on a sheet pan. Use leftover taco beef or shredded chicken to speed things up even more.
What Are Loaded Sweet Potato Nachos?
These loaded sweet potatoes are the perfect combo of soft, tender sweet potato slices topped with seasoning ground beef, beans, and loads of cheese. Finished off with your favorite nacho toppings and a drizzle of hot sauce! We make sweet potato nachos almost weekly, this started when I was trying to cut out some processed food from my diet.
I usually have a couple sweet potatoes on hand and a can of beans as well as a variety of toppings for nachos. All I have to grab is a pound of ground beef from the store of freezer. I want to experiment with slicing the sweet potatoes super thin on a mandolin and quickly air frying them so they turn into more of a chip. This way I could possibly pick them up like regular nachos, stayed tuned!
Key Ingredients
These nachos are highly customizable, below are the ingredients I use. This is a good starting point but feel free to get creative with toppings or other textures and flavors.
- Beef: a pound of ground beef ensures all of the sweet potato chips are evenly topped with taco meat. Leftover ground beef will also work. To make these with chicken use leftover rotisserie chicken or shredded chicken breasts.
- Seasonings: use store-bought taco seasoning or make your own Salt-Free Taco Seasoning with spices like chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, and onion powder.
- Sweet potatoes: try to find sweet potatoes that are on the thinner side and are relatively the same size. It is optional if you peel the potatoes or not.
- Beans: a can of beans adds quick protein and makes these more filling. Use black beans, pinto beans, or even kidney beans.
- Green Chiles: I add a can of diced green chiles to my taco meat for extra flavor, this can be optional.
- Olive Oil: this is used to coat the sweet potatoes before roasting, canola or avocado oil can work as well.
- Cheese: use any blend of cheese you would like. Pepper jack and cheddar are a good combo, Monterey jack cheese, Colby Jack cheese, or Mozzarella cheese are other good options. Buy pre-shredded cheese or shred your own!
- Toppings: guacamole, sliced avocado, lettuce, pickled jalapenos, black olives, sour cream, Pico de Gallo, and salsa are some topping ideas.
How to Make The Sweet Potato Nachos
Let’s talk a little about how to make the Sheet Pan Low-Carb Loaded Sweet Potato Nachos (The printable instructions are in the recipe card below.)
Quick overview:
- Slice & roast sweet potatoes.
- Prepare taco meat, assemble nachos, bake.
- Add fresh toppings and enjoy!
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. In a mixing bowl toss sliced sweet potatoes in olive oil, salt, and pepper. Arrange potatoes in a single layer on a sheet pan or baking stone. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until potatoes begin to soften.
- While potatoes bake, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add in the ground beef and cook until browned, 4-6 minutes. Season with garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, and chili powder. Mix in the diced chiles.
- Remove the potatoes from the oven, evenly top with the ground beef, beans, and shredded cheese. Place bake in the oven and bake for 7-10 more minutes or until the cheese is melted. If desire, broil on high for a few minutes after baking.
4. Serve immediately with your favorite nacho toppings and enjoy!
Recipe Notes:
*Sweet potatoes can be peeled if desired, but do not need to be. Try to find potatoes that are relatively the same size, thinner potatoes are easier to slice into chips.
*These nachos are best eaten with a fork, they do not hold up the same as traditional nachos. Roasting the potatoes before adding the toppings can help them crisp up a little. Broil the nachos on high before serving to get everything golden brown.
Tools I Recommend
- Cheese Grater – this grater is a must if you grate your own cheese! It’s also handy for several other things, like shaving chocolate, shredding vegetables, zesting, or grinding spices.
- Sheet Pan or Baking Stone – my go-to sheet pans, these are truly non-stick and clean up nicely.
- Sauté pan: I love this non-stick sauté pan for several things, it is large enough to sauté all the ground beef in one batch. I also love the high sides to keep messes in the pan and avoid splatters while cooking.
Nacho Topping Ideas
- White Queso Dip or Green Chile Queso
- Black beans, refried beans, or pinto beans
- Sliced avocado or fresh guacamole
- Mango salsa or Pico de Gallo
- Your favorite store-bought or homemade salsa
- Thinly shredded lettuce, fresh cilantro, and green onions
- Fresh or pickled jalapenos.
More Drool-Worthy Finger Foods
Try these other tasty finger food recipes:
- Protein-Packed Buffalo Chicken Dip – you won’t even know there is cottage cheese in here!
- 3 Ingredient Crockpot Chili Cheese Dip – a simple cheesy dip, it’s perfectly addicting.
- Air Fryer Frozen Cheese Curds – a classic, everyone loves a good cheese curd!
- Loaded Doritos Nachos – crunchy, salt, cheesy, and loaded with fresh toppings.
- Frozen Cauliflower Wings – easy, shortcut air fryer recipe.
Recipe FAQs
Once baked, these nachos don’t store the best as the toppings get a bit sad and the sweet potatoes don’t stay as crispy. But that said, I have stored leftover and had them the next day and they are still just as delicious!
Any type of sweet potato will work for these nachos, the most common are orange skinned sweet potatoes. They are slightly sweeter and more tender. You can also use purple or white sweet potatoes.
To get crispy sweet potato nachos, thinly slice the sweet potatoes, about 1/4″ thick, and roast them at 425 degrees F. Tossing with oil and not overcrowding the potatoes can help also.
Yes! For a vegetarian or vegan version, skip the meat (or use a vegan meat replacement) and up the beans, (dairy-free) cheese, and toppings.
Sheet Pan Low-Carb Loaded Sweet Potato Nachos
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1-2 Sweet potatoes, sliced thinly
- 2 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 tsp Kosher salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper
- 1 lb. Lean ground beef
- 1 tsp Garlic powder
- 1 tsp Onion powder
- 1 tsp Ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp Chili powder
- 4 oz. can Diced green chiles
- 15 oz. can Black or pinto beans, drained and rinsed
- 2-3 cup Shredded cheddar cheese
- Desired toppings, like guacamole, salsa, avocado, or sour cream.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. In a mixing bowl toss sliced sweet potatoes in olive oil, salt, and pepper. Arrange potatoes in a single layer on a sheet pan or baking stone. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until potatoes begin to soften.1-2 Sweet potatoes, 2 tbsp Olive oil, 1 tsp Kosher salt, Fresh cracked black pepper
- While potatoes bake, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add in the ground beef and cook until browned, 4-6 minutes. Season with garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, and chili powder. Mix in the diced chiles.1 lb. Lean ground beef, 1 tsp Garlic powder, 1 tsp Onion powder, 1 tsp Ground cumin, 1/4 tsp Chili powder
- Remove the potatoes from the oven, evenly top with the ground beef, beans, and shredded cheese. Place bake in the oven and bake for 7-10 more minutes or until the cheese is melted. If desire, broil on high for a few minutes after baking.4 oz. can Diced green chiles , 15 oz. can Black or pinto beans, 2-3 cup Shredded cheddar cheese
- Serve immediately with your favorite nacho toppings and enjoy!Desired toppings
These are 12/10. Highly highly recommend!!
Thank you, Trevor! Glad you liked them.