Vegetable Hash Recipe in a Cast Iron Skillet
This vegetable hash recipe in a cast iron skillet is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It is quick to throw together and easy to clean up. Best of all it is a great healthy family meal!
Servings: 4
Equipment
- 1 Cast Iron Skillet 12 inches
Ingredients
- 12 ounces bacon chopped
- 5 large eggs
- 2 large sweet potatoes peeled and chopped
- 2 teaspoons cumin
- 8 ounces mushrooms like cremini sliced
- 1 medium red onion diced
- 3 cloves garlic peeled and minced
- 2 cups fresh greens like arugula or spinach
- 4 ounces feta cheese
- 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes diced
- 1 ripe avocado diced
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Cook the bacon in a cast iron skillet over medium heat, until crispy. Remove and set aside. You may remove a bit of the bacon grease after cooking the bacon if the bacon you have is extra greasy.
- Fry the eggs in the bacon grease. Cook the eggs over easy, or to your preference. Sprinkle the eggs with salt and set aside.
- Add the chopped sweet potatoes to the bacon grease and cook for about five minutes. Sprinkle with the cumin.
- Add the chopped red onion, minced garlic and sliced mushrooms to the skillet, with the sweet potatoes. Add a lid and cook until soft.
- Turn the heat off and add in the greens. The heat from the vegetables will wilt the greens just enough.
- Taste the recipe now and adjust to your preferred level of saltiness. I added about a teaspoon, but bacon varies in saltiness and you may not need that much.
- Add the fried eggs back on top of the hash.
- Sprinkle with the cooked bacon, feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, sliced avocado, and fresh parsley.
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Notes
- I prefer to cook the eggs in this recipe over easy so it drips down the top of the hash. Check out this post to learn how to make perfect over easy eggs.
- If you don’t have all the ingredients that I list, just improvise and use what you have. That is the beauty of this recipe. Swap regular potatoes for sweet potatoes, sausage for bacon, and cheddar for feta. Add some red bell pepper, black beans, or any other extra veggies you like, it's impossible to mess up this meat and vegetable mixture.
- Skip the meat entirely and make this a delicious vegetarian hash.
- This potato hash recipe is best served immediately.
- Add some red pepper flakes to the top if you like a little bit of spice.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 784kcal | Carbohydrates: 48g | Protein: 29g | Fat: 54g | Saturated Fat: 18g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 24g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 314mg | Sodium: 1085mg | Potassium: 1434mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 25338IU | Vitamin C: 24mg | Calcium: 281mg | Iron: 4mg