This Creamy Tropical Sweet Potato Salad is a healthy and delicious side dish filled with tropical flavors like coconut and pineapple! Also vegan, paleo and whole 30 friendly!
You know those recipes that you love so much that you keep on making different variations of? That’s how we are with a lot of our recipes, like breakfast pizzas, oatmeal and mug cakes.
Recipe Inspiration
I was scrolling through our Pinterest feed the other day and stumbled upon this Cranberry Sweet Potato Salad that we made for Thanksgiving last year and wanted to make it again, but this time, change it up for a more summer-like flavor. Since I already knew that the base of those recipe worked well, I decided to add-in tropical flavors instead of the original flavors.
Flavor Profile
This Sweet Potato Salad gets it’s tropical taste from:
Toasted Coconut
Macadamia Nuts
Fresh Pineapple
Coconut yogurt
It’s so tropical that you’ll think your on an island somewhere drinking a pina colada with your toes in the sand. Totally kidding, well sort of!
Different and Tasty!
It’s incredibly creamy and does not include sour cream or mayo as opposed to traditional potato salad. It’s a delicious side dish for a family cookout or can even double as a healthy dessert.
Allergies & Diet
This Potato salad is also great for those with allergies and dietary restrictions such as paleo, vegan and whole 30! So if you make this tasty Tropical Sweet Potato Salad, you won’t just be transported to an island, but you will also please everyone!
6 Ingredient Tropical Sweet Potato Salad {Vegan, Paleo + Whole 30!}
Ingredients
- 4 large sweet potatoes cubed
- 2 cups pineapple finely chopped
- 1/3 cup macadamia nuts chopped
- 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut toasted if desired
- Dressing
- 1 cup coconut yogurt or coconut cream
- 1/3 cup unsweetened almond or coconut milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and add sweet potato cubes to a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil, roast for 30-40 minutes or until done and place in a large bowl
- Add in pineapple, nuts and coconut, mix well
- For dressing: mix yogurt and milk together and add into sweet potato mixture, combine well.
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I LOVE everything about this. I still haven’t tried coconut yogurt but I think this recipe just convinced me to get some!!!
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SO Creative! I love all of your recipes 🙂
I seriously love that you added pineapple to this! I’m pretty sure my husband thinks I am weird, but I LOVE pineapple in savory dishes!
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It’s like an explosion (creamy explosion) of tropical paradise!!
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Oh my lord this sounds like heaven. Seriously YUM!!!!!
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I love everything about this!! Pinned and shared, can’t wait to try it!
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Thank you so much!!! I hope you try it <3
thank you! It is heaven!
heck yes it is!
pineapple is SO GOOD in savory dishes!
Thank you so much <3
Thank you! You need to try it, it’s so good!
Yummy this looks like DESSERT!!! I would love to make this for my mommy and others, because I love sweet potatoes, and mommy loves them too.
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Oh how brilliant is this!! I’d definitely have a big bowl of this for breakfast. Coconut yogurt is my favourite kind to have on hand.
Pineapple in a sweet potato salad is a complete revelation to me! Must try! 🙂
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This looks amazing! I saw it on your Instagram yesterday and thank you for sharing the recipe! This is so perfect for a side this summer!
This would be such an awesome dish for dessert to make people think they are eating dessert but in reality they have some pretty delicious but nutritious food sitting in front of them!
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wow this is really creative! This would be perfect with bbq foods! 😀
Thank you! It would be perfect for a cookout!
heck yes! we totally agree!
thank you! It is a tasty side dish 🙂
it’s so good! you must try 🙂
yes it would be perf for breakfast too!
thank you Emily! It would be great for both breakfast, dessert and dinner 🙂
thank you 🙂
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Wow, I never would have thought to put all those ingredients in a potato salad! It looks good, though. 🙂 Thanks for sharing it at Savoring Saturdays!
thank you so much, it’s a great combo!
thanks!
love that this using sweet potatoes and greek yogurt! definitely sounds like a great summer potato salad.. must try! 🙂
thank you, it’s totally a winner!
Do you use plain or vanilla coconut milk yogurt?
plain 🙂
What brand of coconut yogurt is Whole30 compliant? Please and thank you!
Looks yummy!
I love everything about this. 😀 It has so many of my favorite things in it! <3
I made this yesterday as a side dish to a London Broil, but with Whole30 mayo rather than yogurt, and it was TO DIE FOR. It reminded me of ambrosia salad, it could totally have been a dessert!! Thanks for the amazing recipe. 🙂
I am so not a fan of traditional potato salad, but this sounds awesome! Such a good idea!
I am making this right now for our vegetarian potluck. I used canned sweet potatoes and roasted them in the oven. I used pineapple in a can and shredded it. I also used vanilla coconut milk with plain Greek yogurt (turned out just fine). I won’t be adding macadamia nuts. I tweaked it some. I can’t wait to try it.
Hope you enjoy!
The yogurt is not Whole 30 compliant, for anyone who is wondering. Looks like a great recipe for those who can eat dairy though!
Hi Melanie,
in the recipe it states that you can also sub in coconut cream, which is Whole30 🙂
Is this better served warm or cold? Trying to make it ahead of time 😉 looks delicious
Hi Amanda,
It is honestly good either way!
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