Make This Hearty Burger Bowl Recipe to Meet Your Protein Goals
Sweet potatoes, ground beef, and a cottage cheese burger sauce are featured together in our easy high-protein burger bowl recipe.
Skip the bun but keep the fun in this easy burger meal!
If your family is the meat-and-potatoes type like mine, consider making a hearty burger bowl for an easy dinner. With all this flavor, you can ditch the bun and miss none of the flavor.
This burger bowl recipe is stacked with juicy ground beef, all your favorite burger toppings, golden air-fried sweet potato fries, and a high-protein, creamy cottage cheese burger sauce that ties it all together.
Why this burger bowl recipe works:
- High-Protein Burger Sauce: Blended cottage cheese gives you that rich, creamy bite without the heaviness.
- Crispy Sweet Potato Fries: Skip the prep work of roasted sweet potatoes and make crisp fries in the air fryer as a shortcut!
- Build-Your-Own Style: Everyone can load their bowl with their favorite toppings as this idea is easy and fun to customize.
Sweet Potato Burger Bowl Recipe
yield: 4 SERVINGS
prep time: 15 MINUTES
cook time: 15 MINUTES
total time: 30 MINUTES
Air fryer sweet potato fries get served with ground beef, a mayo cottage cheese burger sauce and all your favorite fixings.
Ingredients
For the Burger Bowl:
- 1 pound ground beef or turkey
- 1/2 an onion, chopped
- 1/2 a bag frozen sweet potato fries
- burger toppings such as pickles, lettuce, tomatoes, onions
Cottage Cheese Burger Sauce:
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese, blended
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 3-4 chopped pickles and a dash of pickle juice
- Salt and pepper to taste
Directions
1
Crumble and cook the ground beef in a skillet on the stove with chopped onion until browned, about 5–6 minutes. Season with salt and pepper as desired.
2
Cook the sweet potato fries. Spread sweet potato fries in a single layer and cook 12–15 minutes, shaking halfway through. Season with salt and pepper as desired.
3
Blend cottage cheese until smooth, then stir in ketchup, mayo, pickles, pickle juice, garlic powder, onion, salt, and pepper.
4
Assemble your burger bowls with ground beef, fries, and desired toppings such as lettuce, tomatoes, and onions. Spoon or drizzle your creamy cottage cheese burger sauce over the top. Enjoy!
More tips for making this sweet potato burger bowl:
- The burger sauce can also pair well with sandwiches, wraps, or as a dipping sauce for fries and veggies!
- Burger bowls are great for meal prepping! You can make the meat one day and then compile the bowls as meals for the following few days for an easy lunch or dinner.
- Add a bit of olive oil to the fries before air frying for an extra crispy result!
You need to try this healthy burger bowl, glow up! 🍔
This meal is fresh, colorful, and satisfying, and it’s proof that sometimes skipping the bun just means more room for fries. I love air fryer sweet potato fries as the texture gets nice and crispy. Next time I am gonna add some sliced avocado.
Do you love the ground beef and sweet potato bowl trend? Be sure to try the Korean beef bowl version too!
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