Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Ham

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons canola oil 
• 0.5 teaspoon chipotle chile powder to taste
• 1 cup ham smoked diced
• 0.3 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 0.3 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 3 tablespoons onion diced
• 0.7 cup pineapple divided crushed
• 3 tablespoons bell pepper diced red
• 2 large sweet potatoes 

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• blender
• potato masher

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Bake sweet potatoes in the preheated oven until softened, about 1 hour.
3. Heat canola oil in a skillet over medium heat; saute onion and red bell pepper until just softened, about 5 minutes.
4. Add ham, 1/2 the pineapple, and chipotle powder; saute over low heat until heated through, about 5 more minutes.
5. Cut sweet potatoes in half lengthwise and scoop out the insides, leaving a thin shell. Blend sweet potatoes in a blender or mash in a bowl with a potato masher. Stir the remaining pineapple, nutmeg, and cinnamon into mashed sweet potatoes.
6. Return mashed sweet potato mixture to the shells and top each with ham mixture.