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.
Sooo good! I just made it, hubby approved! I can hear him from his office enjoying this delicious food! Thank you! I added creole seasoning and tomatoes and served with salsa and sour cream.
Sounds so delicious! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Yum! We make scrambled eggs with ham and cheese a lot but this was so much better!
I like to throw in vegetable odds and ends, too. Spinach, cooked asparagus, etc. Great recipe.
Sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing! :)
Excellent
This recipe sounds and looks dlish!!! What kind of cheese do you use and what size bag of frozen hash browns?
I usually use cheddar cheese, but a jack cheese would be good as well! I think my bag was a 30 oz bag of frozen hash browns.
This is a great weekend breakfast idea! Definitely not for frequent meals! Special occasion breakfast only. Our typical weekday breakfast-cereal, toast, fruit and milk, juice, tea, coffee or water. If there are leftover pancakes or waffles from the weekend we have those.
Yes, definitely a special occasion breakfast! :)
My husband would LOVE this! I’ll have to make it this weekend for him!
Paige
I made this dish yesterday morning and it was a huge hit for me and my husband. I used smoked gouda cheese as well. I will definitely be making this more often.
A couple quick questions, how many does this feed and do you scramble the eggs before adding them?
Hi Jennifer! I wisk the eggs a little before adding them, but not very much. It will feed about 6 people.
Am visiting from TT&J…this looks like something we would all enjoy. Thanks!
Thanks for coming by! Nice to “meet” you! Have a good monday! Xoxo
This looks delish! Gonna have to try it!
Thanks Vivienne! Have a great weekend! xoxo
I made this for dinner tonight. My husband and I both loved it! Thanks for the new breakfast dinner.
Oh I’m so glad you liked it! Thanks for commenting! xo
Thank you this great saying…I so get caught up in perfection, and then I don’t try at all….this is going in my craft room for sure! :):) Have a great Wednesday! Sandy
This sounds so good!
Great to make for a special breakfast!
Yes, definitely perfect those breakfast! Have a good day! xo
Oh yummy! I eat oaties every morning! Don’t think this is going to fit my WW program this week…but maybe for a special treat.
lol ya definitely not the “healthiest” breakfast… but for a special treat, yes!
That sounds delicious. I’m pinning it to make this weekend.
Thanks Randi! It’s super yummy!
Great pic, Jamie! Davis and Gavin would go nuts over it! I’ll have to try making it, although I am THE WORST egg cooker ever. seriously. {probably doesn’t help that i hate the smell of them!} We are boring breakfast eaters too, except for Fridays. On most Fridays, we make pancakes with homemade syrup. :)
happy crafting,
Linda
lol .. same! mmm I love pancakes with home made syrup…buttermilk syrup to be exact!
Yumm that looks and sounds so good! I love all those notsogoodforyou breakfast foods. Unfortunately I eat boring healthy breakfast (egg whites & cooked spinach, oatmeal, protein shake, kashi cereal, or just a bowl of fruit). I do however condone eating this kind of stuff every once in awhile ;) I’m definitely going to try this come November when I can eat it :)
lol, I know! We always eat boring breakfast foods around here too! But hey, every once in awhile we splurge! And it tastes good! haha!