Sweet Potato Hash With Eggs and Bacon

A simple one-pan sweet potato hash recipe, loaded with veggies and bacon, and topped with eggs. It makes for a perfect, hearty, and filling breakfast or a quick meal anytime during a busy week.

I love simple recipes, especially when they are topped with eggs, and this sweet potato hash is probably one of my favourites. It's a great way to use up leftover sweet potato if you have any in the fridge, and it's loaded with veggies!

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What is a 'Hash'?

Hash is traditionally a simple fried dish using leftover potatoes, onions, and meat, and can be served for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Corned beef hash and roast beef hash are the most popular forms of hash, and are a great way to use up leftover roast you may have in the fridge. Any combination of meat and vegetables may be used, though, creating limitless hash options.

Hash in North America is often served with fried eggs on top, and is sometimes even topped with hollandaise!

How To Cook Hash Quickly

Hash is traditionally meant to be a quick and easy meal, where you use any leftovers you may have kicking around the fridge.

I routinely make roasted sweet potatoes or whole baked sweet potatoes as a side dish for supper, and usually have some leftovers. I also cook up whole packages of bacon about once a week (see how I do it here for meal prep with no fuss!), giving us bacon for use in sandwiches, wraps, and you guessed it, hash!

If using leftover sweet potatoes and bacon in the recipe below, skip sauteing the ingredients separately and simply heat them all together in a pan with the onion, bell pepper, and kale. Then just add eggs!

The Best Way To Cook Eggs On Top Of Sweet Potato Hash

To top this sweet potato hash with fresh eggs, you have two options:

• Bake eggs in oven: Break the whole eggs on top of the hash, and put the skillet in the oven, until the eggs are done (my favourite method).

or

• Fry the eggs in a pan: You can also fry the eggs in the same pan with everything else pushed to the sides. Make either one big hole in the middle to cook the eggs together, or four separate, smaller ones, one for each egg.

I prefer to bake the eggs in the oven simply because it's easier, and the result looks nicer!

Do You Have To Peel The Sweet Potatoes?

Nope! While the recipe below does call for peeling the sweet potato, the choice is entirely yours. Sweet potato skin is edible and actually quite nutritious! Note that the skin does stay tougher than the flesh when cooked and can have a leathery texture.

Sweet Potato Hash With Eggs and Bacon Recipe

Since this is meant to be a full recipe, we will cook all the ingredients. But if you are using leftover sweet potatoes and bacon, simply skip sauteing the ingredients separately and heat them all together in a pan.

Sweet Potato Hash Ingredients:

• 2 whole sweet potatoes, peeled and medium diced
• 200 grams / 7 oz sliced bacon, roughly chopped
• ½ whole red onion, finely diced
• ½ whole red bell pepper, medium diced
• 1 stalk of kale
• 4 whole eggs

Instructions: How to Cook the Sweet Potato Hash With Eggs and Bacon

Pre-heat a large pan over medium heat. As the pan heats up, cut up the bacon into bite-sized pieces. Add the bacon to the pan and cook until it starts to brown. Stir often.

As the bacon cooks, dice the onion, bell pepper, and then the peeled sweet potato. Set the sweet potato and bell pepper aside and add the onion to the bacon.

Cook the bacon and onion until the bacon is fully cooked and the onion turns translucent. Remove the cooked onions and bacon from the pan using a slotted spoon. Leave all the bacon fat in the pan.

Add the diced sweet potato to the still-hot pan with the bacon grease.

Sauté the sweet potatoes over medium heat for about 2-3 minutes, until the edges start to brown slightly.

Then cover the pan with a large fitting lid, turn the heat to medium-low, and continue cooking the sweet potatoes for another 5 minutes or until they are fully cooked.

Remove the lid from the pan, add the diced bell pepper, and the cooked bacon and onion mix. Turn the pan up to medium heat and cook for a minute or two.

Add the chopped kale leaves

Then crack four fresh eggs directly onto the hash. Either bake the hash in a pre-heated oven until the egg whites are set, or push the hash to the edges of the pan and fry the eggs directly in the pan.

Serve the sweet potato hash immediately.

More Sweet Potato Recipes

• Whole Baked Sweet Potatoes
• 12 Different Ways To Cook Sweet Potato

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