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Sweet Potato Fajitas and Broccoli Meal Prep for Weight Loss

Are you new to the vegan diet?

This sweet potato fajitas is the perfect food to meal prep for weight loss.

There’s nothing to worry about because being vegan has it’s perks. As a vegan you’re able to eat a variety of plant based foods that are rich in antioxidants and nutrients that your body needs.

Read on for tips on how to prep this delicious sweet potato fajitas.

Why You Should Make This Sweet Potato Fajitas

This delicious vegan sweet potato fajitas is packed with colourful vegetables boosting with fresh flavours of black pepper, ginger and garlic.

This sweet potato fajitas is super healthy and perfect for meal prepping. Feel free to adjust and improvise with your own preferred ingredients in place of the ones listed.

Just make sure you keep in mind the overall calories of your meal. You can plan ahead and enjoy this sweet potato fajitas for lunch or dinner this week.

This meal prep is a source of healthy fats and complex carbohydrates. Hence making it a super filling meal that contains 12g of fibre for each sweet potato fajita bowl.

Sweet Potato Fajitas & Broccoli Ingredients

  • 1kg Sweet Potatoes. Shop here or at your local store.
  • 8 Bell Peppers. Shop here or at your local store.
  • 8tbsp Sofra Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Shop here or at your local store.
  • 1 Broccoli head. Shop here or at your local store.
  • 4tbsp Freshly Ground Black Pepper. Shop here or at your local store.
  • 4tsp Ginger powder. Shop here or at your local store.
  • 4tsp Garlic powder. Shop here or at your local store.

How To Make Your Sweet Potato Fajitas Meal Prep

  • To make your potatoes: Peel (optional) and cut up your potatoes into tiny long pieces. Slice up your bell peppers into tiny sizes. Then place 200g of potatoes into a sauce pan, add the peppers.
  • To make your fajitas: Add 2tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, 1tbsp of black pepper, 1tsp of ginger power and 1tsp of garlic power into the sauce pan then cook on medium heat and pop the lead on.
  • Stir occasionally with a spatula while cooking. Cook your fajitas for 8-12mins.
  • To cook your broccoli: Cut up your broccoli head into small chunks. Cook your broccoli in unsalted water for 10mins. Drain and serve.

Why You Should Make This Meal Prep for Weight Loss

This vegan sweet potato recipe is a great meal prep recipe to plan ahead for lunch so you can enjoy through the week. This recipe is bursting with flavours and uses a variety of spices, garlic, ginger and bell peppers.

This sweet potato fajitas meal prep can help you lose weight if eaten as part of a calorie deficit meal plan.

When trying to meal prep for weight loss, one thing to keep in mind is the quality of the ingredients.

This recipe uses wholegrain ingredients such as sweet potatoes, broccoli and bell peppers. When you eat wholefoods, you’re going to burn more calories through the day compared to eating processed foods.

This is because wholefoods are richer in nutrients and contain more fat burning properties than processed foods. Processed foods have had most of it’s nutrients stripped away.

If you want a meal plan for weight loss, get my 6 weeks fat loss meal plan.

Prep Your Cooked Fajitas & Broccoli In Each Bowl Like This

After cooking your sweet potato fajitas using the exact ingredients and amounts. Fill up your bowls in these amounts: 200g of sweet potato fajitas, 100g of boiled broccoli.

Tips & Suggestions For Making This Sweet Potato Fajitas Meal Prep

  • Use fresh bell peppers. Use any 2 colour bell peppers of your choice.
  • Use extra virgin olive oil or any healthy cooking oil of your choice.

Sweet potato Fajitas Meal Prep

Recipe by Ola IpayeCourse: Vegan, FajitasCuisine: MexicanDifficulty: Medium
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

40

minutes
Calories

649

kcal
Total time

1

hour 

10

minutes

This vegan sweet potato recipe is a great meal prep recipe to plan ahead for lunch so you can enjoy through the week. This recipe is bursting with flavours and uses a variety of spices, garlic, ginger and bell peppers.

Ingredients

  • 1kg Sweet potatoes

  • 8 Bell peppers

  • 8tbsp Extra virgin olive oil

  • 1 Broccoli head (300g)

  • 4tbsp Black pepper

  • 4tsp Ginger powder

  • 4tsp Garlic powder

Directions

  • Peel (optional) and cut up your potatoes into tiny long pieces.
  • Slice up your bell peppers into tiny sizes. Then place 200g of potatoes into a sauce pan, add the peppers.
  • To make your fajitas: Add 2tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, 1tbsp of black pepper, 1tsp of ginger power and 1tsp of garlic power into the sauce pan then cook on medium heat and pop the lead on.
  • Stir occasionally with a spatula while cooking. Cook your fajitas for 8-12mins.
  • To cook your broccoli: Cut up your broccoli head into small chunks. Cook your broccoli in unsalted water for 10mins. Drain and serve.

Notes

  • One meal prep contains 200g of cooked sweet potato fajitas with 100g of cooked broccoli.

Nutrition Facts

4 servings per container

Serving Size300g


  • Amount Per ServingCalories649
  • % Daily Value *
  • Total Fat 35g 54%
    • Saturated Fat 4g 20%
    • Trans Fat 0g
  • Cholesterol 0mg 0%
  • Sodium 58.4mg 3%
  • Potassium 387.3mg 12%
  • Total Carbohydrate 88g 30%
    • Dietary Fiber 17g 68%
    • Sugars 45g
  • Protein 11g 22%

  • Vitamin A 206.6%
  • Vitamin C 820.9%
  • Calcium 17.6%
  • Iron 9.4%

* The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Conclusion

Meal prepping is the best way to keep on track no matter what your goal is.

This sweet potato fajitas meal prep is easy to make-ahead so you can enjoy a tasty lunch throughout the week. There’s no better feeling than knowing you have already prepped your meals for most days in the week.

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