This breakfast skillet is quick and easy to make with bacon and eggs, hash browns and cheese. It’s a hearty recipe made in one pan that can be served for breakfast or dinner!
This breakfast recipe is so easy to whip up! Other favorites include skillet breakfast potatoes, breakfast burritos and this frittata recipe.
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Bacon, Egg and Potato Breakfast Skillet
While my family loves this hashbrown breakfast casserole, this easy breakfast skillet is a favorite that’s made in one pan and serves more than one unlike my western omelette recipe. We also love to make pancakes, French toast and Belgian waffles!
This breakfast skillet recipe is so flavorful with bacon, scrambled eggs, easy hash browns. Serve with a side of brioche bread French toast for Christmas morning and special occasions or just serve it for an easy dinner!
Easy Breakfast Skillet Recipe Ingredients
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- Bacon
- Hash browns, cubed or shredded.
- Onion, yellow onion or white onion
- Bell pepper, I used red bell peppers.
- Eggs
- Shredded cheese
How to Make a Breakfast Skillet
- Cook bacon. Cook bacon in a skillet over medium-high heat until crisp. Set aside and crumble once cooled. Leave 1-2 Tablespoons bacon grease in skillet and cook onions and peppers until translucent. Then add hash browns and cook according to package.
- Whisk large eggs, then add to skillet. Whisk eggs in a large bowl. Then once hash browns are lightly browned, pour eggs over top. S&P to taste.
- Cut into pieces and flip. After a few minutes, cut the dish into 4 pieces and flip each piece over to brown the other side.
- Top and serve! Sprinkle with shredded cheese and crumbled bacon and serve once the cheese has melted.
Tips and Variations
- Make your own hash browns from scratch if you would like or use cast iron skillet potatoes with fresh Russet potatoes or Yukon Gold potatoes.
- Don’t overly flip the hashbrowns. The key to them being nice and crispy is letting them cook all the way through.
- You could use a different breakfast protein like ground sausage.
- Feel free to add in extra veggies if preferred. I like to top mine with sliced green onions, diced tomatoes and hot sauce. Yum!
- Reheat leftovers in the skillet or wrap them into a tortilla for a breakfast burrito.
Love breakfast recipes with hash browns? This crock pot breakfast casserole and cheesy hash brown egg cups are two more favorites!
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Breakfast Skillet
Ingredients
- 6 pieces bacon
- ½ cup onion , chopped
- 1 bell pepper , chopped
- 20 ounce bag hash browns , cubed or shredded
- 6 eggs
- 1/2-1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Optional: sliced green onions, hot sauce, tomatoes
Instructions
- Cook bacon. Cook 6 pieces of bacon in a skillet until crisp over medium-heat. Set aside and crumble once cooled. Leave 1-2 Tablespoons bacon grease in the pan.
- Add onion, pepper and potatoes. Cook 1/2 cup onions and 1 bell pepper in the pan with the bacon grease until translucent. Then add 20 ounce bag hash browns and cook according to package.
- Add eggs. Whisk 6 eggs in a large bowl. Once the hash browns are lightly browned, pour the eggs on top of the hash browns. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Flip. After a couple of minutes, cut the dish into 4 pieces. Then flip each piece over to brown the other side.
- Add cheese. Top with 1/2 – 1 cup shredded cheese and crumbled bacon. Serve once cheese is melted. Add optional toppings if desired.
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
My family enjoyed this recipe. Will make it again.
The recipe called for 20 oz of hash browns, but in the comments you mentioned using a 30 oz bag. ?Do you remember which amount worked best for you? I think I might have used too much using the entire bag.