Sweet potato home fries are a delicious breakfast side dish! Top with eggs and avocado for a delicious, nutritious meal.
Home fries. How do we feel about them? Allow me to summarize my thoughts thusly:
Home fries are the best hangover food ever.
^^No truer words have ever been blogged.
Aside from being great hangover food, I’ve always viewed home fries to be that country kitchen staple – there really is nothing like a home fry that crunches to perfection on the outside and splooges on the inside. With just the right amount of salt. And Tobasco. And ketchup.
I believe breakfast restaurants should 200% be scored on the quality of their home fry, because let’s face it: home fries are really what we’re in for anyway, right? Plus the bacon, right? Right.
We all know I’m a mega fan of consuming sweet potatoes in//on//around my breakfast eggs, so I thought I’d pass along some sweet potato home fry steaze for those times you have a hangover to cure, slash some extra time on a weekend morning. It’s really quite simple to prepare this recipe ingredient-wise…really, it’s all in the technique.
Now truth: These are not going to crisp up quite as well as the crispiest of home fries you’ve consumed in your life.
For starters, they’re not deep fried, and secondly, the body chemistry of the sweet potato makes it softer and less crispable than say a russet or a yukon potato.
Nevertheless, the little tater tots come out of the skillet piping hot, with a nice crisp-to-splooge ratio, and you’ll want to make and enjoy them ee’ry dang day.
Recipe Adaptations:
You can change up the spices you add to your home skillet according to your personal taste. You can serve these crisp mongers with your choice of over easy/sunny side up/poached/scrambled egg, and you can also add some sort of funky fresh breakfast sauce I’ve never even heard of.
As you can see, I took the sunny side up egg + avocado + hemp seed approach. So simple. So many textures. All the flavors. Breakfast o’ champerines.
Stay tuned for scenes from your next sweet potato…
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Sweet Potato Home Fries
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 ½ pounds sweet potatoes chopped into ½-inch cubes
- 1 large yellow onion sliced
- 5 cloves garlic minced
- 1-½ teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon sea salt to taste
- 4 tablespoons to 6 water
Instructions
- Heat the coconut oil in a large non-stick (or cast iron) skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add the chopped sweet potatoes and stir to coat in oil. Allow them to cook untouched for 4 minutes.
- Stir in the chopped onion and cook for 8 minutes, stirring only once or twice to allow the onion and sweet potato to brown.
- Turn down the heat to medium and add the garlic, salt, chili powder, and paprika. Saute, stirring constantly, for 4 minutes.
- Add the water (start with ¼ cup - you can always add more later if necessary) and cover the skillet. Cook for 5 to 8 minutes, until sweet potatoes are cooked through.
- Serve with your favorite breakfast items, such as eggs, bacon, salsa, and avocado.
Nutrition
OMG. That plate of deliciousness. I miss you, my dear. Let me know how you are doing. And bring me a plate of these taters, ok? xoxo
Crispness shrispness…these home fries are what sweet tater dreams are made of! Hangover food > every other food, ever. LOVE LOVE LOVE!
Home fries have my whole heart!! We love doing breakfast for dinner so I think I might try these tonight!
The crisp to splooge ratio sounds good enough for me! lol
Now I want to go get drunk just so I can wake up to a plate of this. MMM…
These home fries sound amazing with salsa, beans, and avocado- but they also look totally delicious on their own 🙂
I didn’t even know home fries = cottage potatoes. Silly language barrier. I’m so glad you went the savory route- Just between us, savory sweet potato > sweet sweet potato. Adding eggs = non negotiable.
THis looks like the perfect breakfast! So healthy and so filling!
Hell yeah, home fries! I could make a meal out of home fries and often crave them for dinner. Love this recipe and those perfectly cooked eggs layered on top.
Whenever a breakfast/brunch place fails at home fries it is like the whole world cries. Obviously I should just make them at home more often. Love this sweet potato twist!
Holy crap, this was good!! Just yum!! That’s all, other than Jerry proclaiming that “this is a keeper”. Thanks!!
Yuuuuuuhs! So happy to hear it! One of my close friends made it too and was raving about it. So happy you and Jer Bear enjoyed it! xoxo
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