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Breakfast Hash Recipe

Published: Feb 15, 2019 · Modified: Apr 3, 2024 by Brooke Fajcz · As an Amazon Influencer, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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Reinvent your leftovers into a spectacular meal with our skillet breakfast hash recipe.  Eggs are nestled in a skillet with diced potatoes, bell peppers, red onion, and bacon. It will be a new family favorite!

For more breakfast recipes the whole family will love, try our breakfast sandwiches and cheese grits casserole!

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Ingredients

glass bowls of ingredients for breakfast hash

The beauty of breakfast hash is you can use up whatever is in your fridge or freezer.  Our breakfast hash recipe takes simple ingredients. Let's talk about the main ones.

  • Meat: We used bacon for our hash recipe, but you could substitute it with ground pork, sausage, or cubed ham.
  • Protein: We used four large eggs, but you could substitute them with rinsed black beans.
  • Potatoes: We used russet potatoes in our breakfast hash, but you could substitute with red, yellow, or sweet potatoes.
  • Alliums: We used fresh garlic, red onion in the hash, and green onion for garnish, but you could substitute with white or yellow onion, shallots, or leeks.
  • Veggies: We used red and yellow bell pepper, but you can substitute with kale, spinach, sliced Brussels sprouts, mushrooms, squash, or zucchini.

How to Make

Gather all the ingredients for our breakfast hash recipe.  Chop the vegetables and grate the cheese.

cutting potatoes and blotting grease from bacon
  1. Scrub, rinse, and dice the potatoes.  (We left the skins on for extra nutrients.)  You'll want 1 to 1 ¼ medium potatoes per person. Submerge them in cold water until you're ready to cook them.
  2. Fry the bacon and drain on a paper towel-lined plate.  Blot the excess grease off the bacon with a paper towel. Pour the bacon grease out of the skillet into a bowl.  Let the bacon cool and cut into ¼ inch pieces.
cooking peppers and aromatics and potatoes

3. Sauté the onion, bell peppers, and garlic in another pan to save time.

4. Fry the potatoes and the spices in bacon grease until crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, roughly 20 minutes.

adding salt, eggs, and cheese to the hash

5. Preheat the oven to 350°F.  Stir the onion mixture and bacon into the potatoes. Taste and adjust seasonings in your breakfast hash as desired.

6. Make 4 wells in the hash, then gently crack an egg into each well. Sprinkle the grated cheddar cheese around each egg.

cooked breakfast hash in a skillet with a plate

7. Bake for 9 to 10 minutes in an oven proof skillet or until the white of the egg is no longer clear.  Garnish with green onion and let set for a few minutes.

8. Serve hot with sliced tomatoes and any topping of your choice (ketchup, salsa, sour cream, or hot sauce).

Recipe FAQs

What is traditionally in hash?

Hash is typically a mixed dish made with potatoes, meat, and sometimes vegetables. Roast beef and corned beef hash are the most popular.

Why is it called a hash?

This tasty breakfast dish of chopped ingredients gets its name from the verb form of hash which means to cut up food into small pieces.

Can I make breakfast hash on a sheet pan?

Preheat the oven to 425 F.  Toss the diced potatoes, chopped veggies, and spices with oil in a bowl. Smooth out the vegetable mixture on a foil-lined baking tray and cook for 25 minutes. Move the veggies to one side and place 4 bacon strips at one end of the tray.  Make four wells in the veggies and crack an egg into each well. Return to oven and cook for 12 minutes. Garnish and serve.

What potatoes are best for breakfast hash?

We prefer making our hash recipe with russet potatoes, an all-purpose potato, that cooks up nicely and maintains its shape. Red-skinned potatoes, Yukon golds, and sweet potatoes are also great options.

Store

Make ahead: This recipe tastes best for breakfast when the eggs are fresh, so if you'd like to make this the night before, make the recipe up through step 5 and then finish steps 6 to 8 in the morning.

Variations

  • Want to make it vegetarian?  Replace the meat with more veggies.
  • Don't like bell peppers? Try Brussels sprouts, kale, zucchini, butternut squash, or spinach.
  • Want it low carb?  Swap sweet potatoes for the potatoes.
  • Want protein without meat and eggs?  Try black beans or baked beans.
  • Want to stretch this breakfast recipe?  Add two more eggs and 2 cups of rinsed black beans.
  • What other garnish ideas? Try grape tomatoes, goat cheese, thin radishes, or cilantro.

Expert Tips

  • Like crispy potatoes? Don't overcrowd the skillet by adding other vegetables when frying the diced potatoes, add them in later.
  • Don't have an oven-proof skillet?  Transfer the hash to a sheet pan or rectangular baking dish, bake at 425 F for 25 to 30 minutes then add the eggs and bake for 5 to 12 minutes.

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Breakfast Hash Recipe

Our breakfast hash recipe is perfect for a weeknight dinner, brunch, or your next camping trip.  Cook up bacon and eggs, diced potatoes, bell peppers, and red onion and you'll soon have a scrumptious meal in your cast iron skillet.  It might just be a new family favorite!
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Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 38 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour 8 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 705kcal
Author: Brooke & Emma

Ingredients
 

  • 7 slices low-sodium bacon, cut in ¼ inch pieces
  • 5 medium russet potatoes, finely diced
  • 4 tablespoons bacon grease
  • ⅓ cup red onion, diced
  • ½ cup red bell pepper, diced
  • ½ cup yellow bell pepper, diced
  • 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ teaspoon paprika
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup extra sharp cheddar, grated
  • ⅛ cup green onion, cut on the diagonal, for garnish
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Instructions

  • Arrange the bacon slices in a cold, 10-inch cast iron skillet.  Turn the heat to medium high until the bacon begins sizzling; then reduce heat to medium low.  Using a fork, flip the bacon to cook the other side.  Once cooked, drain on a paper towel-lined plate and blot off the extra grease.  When cool, cut into ¼ inch slices.  Drain all the fat from the skillet into a small bowl.
  • Scrub and rinse the potatoes, leaving the skins on for extra nutrients.  To dice them, cut them in ¼ inch slices, then stack them 3 high and cut into ¼ inch sticks.  Turn the stack 90 degrees and cut in ¼-inch intervals again.  This way you should have uniformly diced potatoes.  Feel free to cut the potatoes larger if you like; just make sure they're uniform in size.
  • Pour a tablespoon of bacon grease into the skillet and set it over medium-high heat.  Let it heat up, swirl it around to coat the bottom of the pan, then add the diced potatoes and the spices.  Be sure to stir occasionally to prevent sticking.  After a couple of minutes, turn the heat down to medium.  When the potatoes start sticking to the bottom of the skillet, stir in another tablespoon or two of bacon grease.  Cook until crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, about 20 minutes for finely diced potatoes.
  • When the potatoes are almost done, heat up one tablespoon of bacon grease over medium high heat in another small skillet.  Saute the onion, red pepper, and yellow pepper for 4 minutes, stirring frequently.  Then add the minced garlic and saute until fragrant, stirring constantly.  Remove from the heat.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 F.  Once the potatoes are done, mix in the cooked bacon and onion/pepper mixture.  Taste and adjust seasonings, if necessary.
  • To cook the eggs, make four large wells in the hash, spacing them evenly apart.  Crack a large egg into each hole, and sprinkle grated cheese on top of the potatoes around the edges of each egg.  Sprinkle some salt and black pepper over each egg.
  • Place the cast iron skillet in a 350 F oven for 7 to 9 minutes, or until the egg whites are no longer clear and are done to your liking.
  • To garnish, sprinkle with green onion.  Let it rest for a couple of minutes.  Serve hot with sliced tomato on the side.

Sheet Pan Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 425 F.  Toss the diced potatoes, chopped veggies, and spices with oil in a bowl. Smooth out the vegetable mixture on a foil-lined baking tray and cook for 25 minutes. Move the veggies to one side and place 4 bacon strips at one end of tray.  Make four wells in the veggies and crack an egg into each well. Return to oven and cook for 12 minutes. Garnish and serve.

Notes

  • Like crispy potatoes? Don't overcrowd the skillet by adding other vegetables when frying the diced potatoes, add them in later.
  • Don't have an oven-proof skillet?  Transfer the hash to a sheet pan or rectangular baking dish, bake at 425 F for 25 to 30 minutes then add the eggs and bake for 5 to 12 minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 705kcal (35%)Carbohydrates: 54g (18%)Protein: 25g (50%)Fat: 44g (68%)Saturated Fat: 18g (113%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 5gMonounsaturated Fat: 18gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 255mg (85%)Sodium: 1128mg (49%)Potassium: 1403mg (40%)Fiber: 4g (17%)Sugar: 3g (3%)Vitamin A: 1243IU (25%)Vitamin C: 76mg (92%)Calcium: 282mg (28%)Iron: 4mg (22%)

Serving sizes and nutritional information are only an estimate and may vary from your results.

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  1. Beth

    October 16, 2019 at 3:09 pm

    5 stars
    I do like this hash. The potatoes are very nice. I like the taste very much. I would like a few more eggs in the hash, since I usually eat two in a serving.

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    • Emma

      October 19, 2019 at 8:22 am

      Feel free to add more eggs, Beth! Glad you enjoyed this hash.

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