Spam Kimchi Baked Sweet Potato
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 4 large sweet potatoes
- 2 cups napa cabbage kimchi, chopped into bite-sized pieces
- 1 can of SPAM, diced into tiny cubes
- 1/2 cup Kewpie or regular mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup gochujang
- 1 lime
- 2 green onions, chopped
- black sesame seeds for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Rinse sweet potatoes and pat dry. Prick each one all over with a fork. Place sweet potatoes on aluminum foil lined baking sheet and bake for approximately 45-50 minutes. They should be tender and no longer firm.
- While potatoes are baking, make the gochujang sauce by combining Kewpie (or mayo) in a small bowl with gochujang and juice of 1 lime. Mix well. Transfer to a resealable sandwich sized plastic bag and store in fridge until time to assemble sweet potatoes.
- Approximately 15 minutes before the sweet potatoes are done baking, heat a large cast iron skillet on medium high. Saute SPAM for 5-7 minutes until they have a nice char on them (longer if you want crispier bits). Place on paper towel lined plate and set aside.
- In the same pan, give your kimchi a quick saute. You want to get it warm and give it a little char without losing it's crispy texture.
- When sweet potatoes are done baking, cut each in half lengthwise. Top the sweet potatoes with kimchi and spam. Snip a tiny corner off of the sandwich bag holding the gochujang sauce and pipe desired amount onto the sweet potatoes.
- Garnish with green onions and black sesame seeds (optional).