Apple Sweet Potato Hash

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Bring a touch of fall to your morning with this sweet potato and apple breakfast hash. Combining sweet and savory, it’s a great autumn twist to a classic one-skillet breakfast.

Overhead view of apple and sweet potato hash with two fried eggs in a cast iron skillet over a campfire.

We enjoy breakfast hash all year round, but the ingredients often shift with the season. In the winter we go big on root vegetables and during the spring and summer, we try to include as many fresh greens as possible. But now as we move into fall, we start craving something a little heartier but not middle-of-January hearty.

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So, we paired sweet potatoes with some local granny smith apples. Sweet and delicious. We can’t believe we hadn’t tried this combination before!

Four strands of bacon frying in a cast iron skillet over a campfire.
Michael is sitting by a campfire frying bacon in a cast iron skillet.

Bacon First, Hash Second

While the sweet potato and apple play great together, the ingredient that really pulls the dish together is black forest bacon. We get ours from Trader Joe’s, but we’ve been seeing it around at other grocery stores too lately. It’s hands down the best bacon we’ve tried.

The way we big bacon flavor in this recipe is to cook the bacon first. Once it has fully cooked and all the fat has been rendered out of it, we remove it from the pan and use the remaining bacon grease to saute our sweet potatoes and apples. The result is maximum bacon flavor across the ingredients.

Chopped apples and sweet potatoes.

Savory Spice Makes Everything Nice

Once the sweet potatoes and apples are fully cooked and feeling soft and tender, it’s time to chop the bacon up into bite-size chunks and add it back into the mix. Now we have the opportunity to steer the flavor profile of the dish. We can lean into the sweetness of the apples or we can lean into the savory side of the bacon. For this recipe, we chose to go more savory and let the sweet stand out as accents flavors. So we add in a bit of dried thyme, salt, and pepper.

Michael cracking eggs into a skillet of breakfast hash.

Perfect Breakfast Hash Eggs

After all the ingredients for the hash were incorporated together, we make two small pockets for the eggs. At this point nearly all the bacon grease had been absorbed by the hash, so we added some butter for the eggs. We cracked two eggs, one in each pocket, and turned the heat to medium.

If like we want our eggs to be more poached than fried, we cover the skillet and let the excess steam cook the eggs. This produces firm white with runny yolks. If we are in the mood for more of a fried egg, we just keep cooking them (without flipping) until the whites firm up. This will produce a nice crispy fried bottom.

If you want to embrace the end of the season, this sweet potato and apple breakfast skillet is a great way to greet a brisk fall morning. It’s definitely going to be on our heavy rotation for the next couple of months.

Apple and sweet potato hash & a fried egg on a silver plate on a camp table with a cup of coffee in the background.

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Overhead view of apple and sweet potato hash with two fried eggs in a cast iron skillet over a campfire.

Apple & Sweet Potato Hash

This sweet & savory apple sweet potato breakfast hash cooks in one skillet, so clean up is a breeze! You can add more eggs for a heartier serving.
Author: Fresh Off The Grid
4.41 from 10 ratings
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
2 servings

Ingredients

  • 4 slices thick-cut bacon, (Black Forest, if you can find it)
  • 1 medium sweet potato, (skinned if preferred)
  • 1 granny smith apple
  • 1 teaspoon thyme
  • 1 tablespoon butter, (optional)
  • 2 eggs

Instructions

  • Slice the sweet potato and apple into 1/2 to 1-inch chunks.
  • Place the bacon in a skillet. Turn the burner on to medium. Fry the bacon so it's just beginning to crisp on the bottom, then flip and cook an additional minute or so. Remove and place on a paper towel-lined plate and set aside.
  • Place the sweet potato, apple, and a pinch of salt into the skillet and saute until soft, about 15 minutes. In the meantime, chop the bacon. When the sweet potato and apples are nearly done, return the bacon to the skillet and sprinkle in the thyme. Taste and add salt as needed.
  • To cook the eggs, push the hash around to create two wells. If the skillet has dried out, you can add a bit of butter to each well to help the eggs fry and prevent sticking. Crack an egg into each well and cook to your preference.
  • Serve immediately & enjoy!

Nutrition (Per Serving)

Calories: 462kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 38g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 226mg | Sodium: 590mg | Potassium: 300mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 605IU | Vitamin C: 5.8mg | Calcium: 30mg | Iron: 1.4mg

*Nutrition is an estimate based on information provided by a third-party nutrition calculator

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7 Comments

  1. What stove are you using in this post? It looks tiny and perfect.

    1. It’s a Camp Chef stove that runs off of a butane cartridge. You can check it out on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2SEf2vz

      We really enjoy using it when we’re cooking one pot/skillet meals. It’s super easy to pack away (comes in a hard-sided case) and it’s so portable!

  2. I made this for dinner and it was delicious! Thanks 🙂

  3. Just made this for breakfast. Only change was we added onion and rosemary, it was delicious!