One Pan Bake with Sweet Potatoes, Veggies & Bacon

Remember how last week we talked about making your life SO much easier with meal prep? Well, I’ve got another recipe in that series this week! Especially with the holiday season creeping right up and life getting crazy. I don’t know about you, but October is TOTALLY insane for me this year, between business trips, travel with family, class, and swim meets every weekend…plus, you know, trying to keep up with the work for all of those and the rest of life during the week. Completely nuts, I tell you.

That turmeric roasted cauliflower rice from last week and many versions of these one-pan bakes have been saving my a** these past few weeks when I have little to zero time to meal prep. But these are fantastic, because I can just preheat the oven, chop everything up while it’s heating up, throw them on baking sheets and bam! Go on my merry way while they’re roasting away, and then boom. Meal prep veggies for the week, donezo.

I struggled with the title of this recipe because…well I’m always switching it up depending on what’s in season at my CSA or farmer’s market. One week I’ll do peppers and onions, one week zucchini and potatoes, one week I’ll do delicata or butternut squash and apples…but always bacon. always. {after all this time? ALWAYS}. Because bacon just makes everything better, oooobviously. And the bacon in this recipe serves as the main cooking fat, and helps the rest of the ingredients roast! Super cool, right?

Please just try and tell me this doesn’t look totally drool worthy. And if you get super excited and want to try them all (or, you know, just have a million veggies from the CSA), feel free to roast off a couple pans at a time with different ingredients like I do!

My favorite two versions right now: An orange + white sweet potatoes + peppers + paprika version, and a fall squash + apples + sweet potatoes version with cinnamon! Feel free to switch up any kind of winters squash, or sub baby potatoes for the sweet potatoes! Try out different combinations and let me know your favorites in the comments! 

One Pan Bake with Sweet Potatoes, Veggies & Bacon

 

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One Pan Bake with Potatoes, Veggies & Bacon Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 40 mins Total time: 50 mins Serves: 4-6 servings

Dana: Real Food with Dana

Ingredients

• for both versions
• 2 medium/large sweet potatoes
• veggies/squash of choice (below)
• 4 slices bacon
• ½ medium yellow onion
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• For the Pepper & Potato Bake
• 2 bell peppers (or 1 pint sweet baby peppers)
• 1 tsp onion powder
• Optional: ¼ tsp paprika
• For the Squash & Apples Bake
• 2 delicata squash, halved, seeds removed
• 2 large apples, core removed
• ½ tsp cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper.
2. While the oven is preheating, chop up all your sweet potatoes, peppers, squash, and/or apples. They key here is to make sure all the chopped up things are the same size (go for bite-sized!)
3. Lay all the veggies and stuff on the baking sheet, spreading them out evenly. Drizzle with 1 Tbsp olive oil, and sprinkle with the garlic powder, sea salt, and other spices, if using.
4. Lay the strips of bacon on top of all the veggies and potatoes.
5. Pop it in the oven and bake for about 40 minutes, until everything is fork-tender, but not burnt.
6. Devour!

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What are your favorite things to meal prep?