Hot Honey Ground Beef Bowls
Updated May 16, 2025
If you want to make the viral hot honey ground beef bowls with sweet potatoes, cottage cheese and avocados, grab my quick and easy recipe!
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Viral Ground Beef Bowls!
You’re probably seeing how high-protein recipes are having a moment on social media especially with the popularity of cottage cheese recipes. The latest viral recips is pairing cottage cheese (that packs 14 grams of protein per ½ cup) with naturally high-protein lean ground beef along with roasted sweet potatoes, avocados hot honey. It’s colorful, balanced and surprisingly so good for a combo that may seem unusual at first.
Happy Cooking!
– Yumna
Ground Beef Bowls Ingredients
- Ground beef: Use lean ground beef, at least 90% fat-free or I prefer even 93% fat-free for this recipe to minimize the saturated fat.
- Cottage cheese: You can use any cottage cheese you like and it’s a good idea to grab whole milk because the full-fat version will be more filling!
- Sweet potatoes: Use two large ones and swap with regular potatoes if you’d like.
- Avocado: Chop or slice it and add it just before you serve so it stays green and fresh.
- Hot honey: There are so many great store-bought hot honey options but you can easily just make your own with honey, sriracha or hot sauce and crushed red pepper. Warm up the honey just a little to make it easier to whisk together.
- Oil: For cooking the sweet potatoes and ground beef. I use olive oil but avocado oil works as well.
- Seasoning: I’ve seen most people just use a tablespoon of taco seasoning on the ground beef and another tablespoon on the sweet potatoes. I just used a blend though of salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika.
How to Make Ground Beef Bowls
Hot Honey Ground Beef Bowls
Ingredients
- 2 large sweet potatoes peeled and diced
- 3 tablespoons olive oil divided
- 1 teaspoon salt divided
- 1 teaspoon black pepper divided
- 3 teaspoons paprika divided
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder divided
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon sriracha
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 2 cups 2% low fat cottage cheese
- 1 avocado diced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Add the sweet potatoes to the prepared baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and season with ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon black pepper, 1 teaspoon paprika, and 1 teaspoon garlic powder. Toss the sweet potatoes and arrange in a single layer. Roast for 30-40 minutes, flipping halfway through, until the sweet potatoes are knife tender.
- Meanwhile, heat the remaining olive oil in a non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add the ground beef, remaining ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon black pepper, 2 teaspoons paprika, and 1 teaspoon garlic powder. Use a spatula or wooden spoon to break up the beef while stirring occasionally, until the beef is browned all over, about 10 more minutes.
- In a small bowl, heat the honey for 10 seconds in the microwave. Add the sriracha and crushed red pepper and whisk to combine.
- Assemble four ground beef bowls by dividing the sweet potatoes, ground beef, cottage cheese and avocado. Drizzle with the hot honey and enjoy immediately.
Nutrition
Nutrition information provided is an estimate. It will vary based on cooking method and specific ingredients used.
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Beef Sweet Potato Bowl Additions
- Fresh vegetables: I’ve seen some versions with added fresh veggies like cherry tomatoes, chopped cucumbers or bell peppers. Add up to ½ a cup of any or all of them.
- Roasted vegetables: While the sweet potatoes are in the oven, you can also throw other vegetables in there as well like roasted broccoli, roasted zucchini or roasted green beans. Add as much as you want and use the same seasoning used for the sweet potatoes.
- Greens: Sauteed Kale or Sauteed Spinach would be so good in the bowls. Cook them on the same skillet used to cook the ground beef either before or after.
- Herbs: Top off your beef bowl recipe with fresh dill, chopped cilantro or chopped parsley.
Recipe Tips
- Assemble before you eat: Because these ground beef bowls have hot and cold ingredients and a hot honey sauce, only put them together when you’re ready to eat so everything stays fresh
- Don’t stir the ground beef too often. After adding the ground beef to the pan, let it cook without touching it to allow the bottom to brown properly. Break up the meat and stir as needed but keep it to a minimum to so you get good even browning.
- Keep everything finely diced: To match the size of the ground beef and the small curd cottage cheese, make sure to chop the sweet potatoes and avocados small so that you can scoop a bite of everything together.
FAQs
Store each of the parts of the ground beef bowls separately so that you can reheat the ground beef and the sweet potatoes in the oven or in the microwave separately without having to heat the cottage cheese and the avocado. The sweet potatoes and ground beef will last in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Yes, you can free any leftover cooked ground beef or roasted sweet potatoes to assemble these bowls quicker in the future. Thaw overnight in the fridge and then pop in the microwave until heated through.
Comments
This was an odd combo with cottage cheese but, it tasted so well together. The hot honey makes this so good! Very filling and plan to use this for meal preps. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
You’re welcome, Sheila! So happy you liked it!!
I made this tonight. It was very easy, but it was a little bland with the seasonings. Next time, I think I’ll just use taco seasoning.
Thanks for the feedback, Caroline. I’m glad you found the recipe easy to make!
Made this for dinner tonight and it’s absolutely delicious!!! Easy to make and so good! This is definitely going to be in our regular meal rotation.
Aww, so happy you liked it!! Thank you!