This recipe for sweet potato hash is diced potatoes combined with savory sausage and colorful vegetables to make a hearty meal. Add a fried egg on top, and you have breakfast or brunch perfection.
When I’m looking for a breakfast that will keep me full for hours, I go for hearty options such as stuffed french toast, breakfast egg muffins, breakfast burritos and this sweet potato hash.
I love to take odds and ends of meat, potatoes and vegetables that I have in my kitchen, and turn them into hash. This sweet potato hash features plenty of sausage, peppers and onions, and is so quick and easy to prepare. I make it all the time, and I always add a fried egg on top!
This dish is a savory and hearty breakfast delight. For more breakfast fun try my pumpkin muffins, homemade cinnamon rolls and sausage egg casserole.
Sweet Potato Hash Ingredients
When you make this sweet potato hash you will need sweet potatoes, olive oil, breakfast sausage, a red onion, a red bell pepper, a green bell pepper, garlic, eggs, parsley, salt and black pepper.
How Do You Make Sweet Potato Hash?
This sweet potato hash recipe starts with cooking breakfast sausage in a skillet. Break up the sausage into small crumbles and cook it until browned and done. Next, add your red onion to the pan and cook it until tender. Toss your bell peppers in the pan and cook them. Add garlic and cook it for 30 seconds. Add cooked and diced sweet potatoes to the mix. Season with salt and pepper. Finally, cook fried eggs in a separate pan and place them on the hash. Add a sprinkle of parsley, then breakfast is served!
Tips For The Perfect Sweet Potato Hash
- Make sure all your ingredients are chopped up and ready to use before you start cooking.
- Stir your sweet potatoes gently when you add them to the pan so that they don’t break up into small pieces or get mushy.
- You can use pork or turkey breakfast sausage, whichever you prefer. This dish also works great with smoked sausage or chicken apple sausage.
- I love to serve this dish with a fried egg on top because the runny yolk mixes with the hash ingredients to form a sauce. You can also crack eggs directly into the hash, and bake the hash until the eggs cook through.
Quick Tip
This recipe calls for cooked sweet potatoes. You can steam, boil or bake your potatoes, or use leftover sweet potatoes. Whatever you have on hand will work!
Recipe FAQs
Sweet potato hash is made of cooked, diced sweet potatoes with sausage, onion and bell peppers. It’s the perfect hearty breakfast for fall and winter.
Sweet potato hash will stay fresh for three days in an airtight container in a refrigerator. Cook new fried eggs when you want to enjoy your leftovers.
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Flavor Variations
There are so many different ways to customize this sweet potato hash recipe to make it your own!
- Protein: Instead of sausage, try ham, bacon or diced chicken.
- Potatoes: No sweet potatoes on hand? You can use cooked Russet or Yukon Gold potatoes instead.
- Vegetables: You can add other vegetables you have on hand such as spinach, mushrooms, kale, black beans or diced tomatoes.
- Spicy: Add some hot sauce or some chili powder if you like your hash spicy.
- Seasonings: You can add some of your favorite seasonings like paprika, cumin, oregano and garlic powder.
- Vegan: Omit the sausage and eggs from this recipe for a vegan version. You could also add diced tofu to this hash.
This sweet potato hash is a real winner, it’s perfect for breakfast or brunch. The sweet potatoes pair so well with the sausage and savory veggies, and the fried eggs really take this dish over the top! Serve yourself up a plate of hash topped with the egg, then stir the runny egg yolk into the sausage mixture – perfection I tell you! Whether it’s for breakfast, brunch, or even dinner, this dish is sure to please any palate!
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Sweet Potato Hash
Ingredients
- 1 pound sweet potatoes peeled, cut into 1 inch pieces, and cooked until tender
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 pound breakfast sausage casings removed
- 1/2 cup red onion diced
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- 1 green bell pepper diced
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 4 fried eggs
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add the sausage, and cook for 5-6 minutes or until done, breaking up the sausage with a spatula.
- Add the onion and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened. Add the red and green bell peppers and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes or until just tender
- Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add the sweet potatoes and cook for 5-6 minutes, or until sweet potatoes are lightly browned. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Place the eggs on top of the sweet potato mixture. Sprinkle parsley over the top and serve immediately.
Notes
- This recipe calls for cooked sweet potatoes. You can steam, boil or bake your potatoes, or use leftover sweet potatoes. Whatever you have on hand will work!
- Make sure all your ingredients are chopped up and ready to use before you start cooking.
- Stir your sweet potatoes gently when you add them to the hash so that they don’t break up into small pieces or get mushy.
One of my favorite weekend brunch recipes! SO much flavor!
Hearty enough for dinner, but perfect for breakfast or brunch. I think I know what we are having for Sunday brunch.
This is perfect for fall mornings! I can’t wait to give this a try next weekend.
There is nothing in this recipe I don’t love. And with breakfast being my favorite meal this is a must try!
This looks like the perfect breakfast or dinner, so filling and hearty!
Now this is my kind of comfort food. I think my husband would be very happy if I served this up too.
I’ve never made a hash with sweet potatoes, not sure why it sounds delicious… Looking forward to giving this a try.
Such a delicious way to start the day – this is a family favourite! We love to enjoy this on a relaxing Sunday morning 🙂
Looks so delicious and would make a great side dish in any brunch party! I love hash!
Love this recipe! So easy, delicious and perfect for weekend brunches!
We always have leftover ham from holidays. This will be a delicious way to use it up!
The combination looks delicious. I will try it out with tofu. 🙂
So delicious!!! My family loved the ham and sweet potato! They asked if we can have it again next weekend.
I LOVE this idea! I always have sweet potatoes in my pantry and whenever we cook ham, I have too many leftovers that my family won’t eat. This is perfect and I know they will love it!
Savory and sweet easy main course sounds yummy!
What a great idea for ham! I always get a large one as we enjoy the leftovers!
Now this is a breakfast worth waking up for!!! Sweet potatoes at every meal is fine by me. 🙂
Hash is one of my favorites. Sweet potato hash with ham sounds amazing! That’s a clever twist on traditional hash!
This is truly inspired and it looks so delicious. I can imagine how great the ham and potatoes are together – what a fabulous idea. I’m with Jennifer – LOVE hash but never thought to do sweet potatoes. Brilliant!
I love hash of any sort, so I’m all over this! Love the sweet potatoes. Such a nice change from the usual 🙂