Cook just once, and this easy sweet potato meal prep recipe gives you a delicious healthy lunch or dinner for the entire week. Leftovers freeze well too!

Looking for a simple, budget friendly, and healthy sweet potato recipe to meal prep on Sunday and enjoy all week long"

This high protein vegetarian sweet potato chili has been one of my favorite weekday lunches or dinner recipes for over a decade. Non vegans love it too!

The recipe can be dairy free, vegan, gluten free, soy free, Whole 30, paleo, and oil free.

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Sweet potato meal prep ingredients

Here’s what you’ll need for the recipe: black beans, tomatoes, onion, chili powder, orange zest, zucchini or carrots, salt, ground cumin, and a large sweet potato.
If you like spicy chili, feel free to add hot sauce or crushed red pepper to taste.

For quick and easy preparation, I use canned diced tomatoes. Fire roasted tomatoes are another great option. If using no salt added diced tomatoes, add a little extra salt.

The orange zest adds incredible flavor to the vegetarian meal prep recipe and should not be omitted. One small orange yields about a teaspoon of orange zest.

To make orange zest, first wash your orange. Use either a zester or a grater to shred the orange peel. Or peel the fruit with a vegetable peeler, then finely dice the skin with a sharp knife.

The sweet potato recipe already packs in close to seven grams of prote...