Name: Sweet Potato Breakfast Hash - Printable Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 22 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: English
Ingredients: Large Non Stick Frying Pan with a Lid; Spatula; 1 tbsp Olive Oil; 1 Large or 2 Small Sweet Potatoes, peeled and diced into cubes; 1/2 Red Pepper, deseeded and diced; Salt and Pepper; 2 x Spring Onions, peeled and sliced; 1 x Garlic Clove, peeled and finely chopped; 2 x Eggs

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Looking for a tasty way to start your day? Getting bored of toast and bowls of cereal? This glorious breakfast hash recipe is for you! It’s quick, it’s healthy, and it’s absolutely the perfect fuel to get you through the day! Want to learn how easy it is to make sweet potato breakfast hash? Read on…

Close up of sweet potato breakfast hash in a frying pan

Easy breakfast hash

First thing in the morning, I’m a bit like a cave woman. ‘Grunt grunt ug’ and so on. I’m not great at dealing with other people, or anything too challenging until I’ve been fed and watered. Can you relate?

Even in this state, I’d say we can cope with a little bit of chopping and frying can’t we? Especially when it results in this amazing sweet potato breakfast hash! It’s super quick, super healthy and a fantastic way to start your day.

Breakfast potato hash is really versatile too. You can throw in whatever leftover veggies you have, you can change up the flavour by adding some store cupboard herbs and spices. In fact, you could even have it as a midweek meal!

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Ingredients

Here is what you will need to serve 2. (Easily doubled.)

1 Large or 2 Small Sweet Potatoes
1/2 Red Pepper
2 x Spring Onions
1 x Garlic Clove
1 tbsp Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper
2 x Eggs

Essential Equipment

Chopping Board
Sharp Knife
Large Non Stick Frying Pan with a Lid
Spatula

Instructions

First, let’s prep your ingredients. Using a chopping board and sharp knife, peel and cube the sweet potatoes (1 large or 2 small). Deseed and chop the red pepper (1/2). Slice the spring onions (x 2) and finely chop the garlic (1 x clove).

Now we’re ready to get cracking! Heat a large, non stick frying pan over a medium heat.

Then add in the oil (1 tbsp), swill it around the pan, and throw in the sweet potato cubes. Cook for 2-3 minutes.

Add in the red pepper and a good helping of salt and pepper. Stir thoroughly with a spatula, and add a little more oil if needed. Then pop the lid on and cook for 3 minutes.

Next, add in the spring onions and the garlic.

Sweet potato, pepper, spring onion and garlic in a saucepan

Then give it another stir, make 2 wells in the middle, and crack the eggs (x 2) into them. Reduce the heat to low.

Eggs cooking over sweet potato hash in a pan

Finally, put the lid back on and cook for around 3-4 minutes, until the egg whites are cooked but the yolks are still runny.

Divide between 2 plates and serve immediately.

Sweet potato breakfast has with eggs in a pan

Sweet potato breakfast hash variations

There are lots of ways you can switch up the flavour in a potato hash recipe! Here are just a few:

Add herbs and/or spices from your cupboard. Think cumin, paprika, turmeric, oregano, Italian herbs etc
You could add chopped fresh herbs just before serving for a more vibrant flavour.
Change up the vegetables. You could use courgette, sweetcorn, peas or tomato.
Add leftover chicken for added protein.

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