One Pot(ato) Meal
Baked potatoes stuffed with normal breakfast fare: eggs, bacon and cheese. Delicious and fun.
One Pot(ato) Meal
Jump to RecipeSometimes there’s just nothing better than a big breakfast of bacon, eggs, and potatoes.
Or maybe there is.
Maybe Definitely it would be better if you could find a way to combine all those things in one nice little package and coat it with cheese. I did just that by hollowing out some baked potatoes. Instead of making double-baked potatoes though, I filled the potatoes with a scrambled egg mixture and added some cheese on top before I stuck it back in the oven!
Trust me when I say that you’re gonna want one of these.
Stuffed Breakfast Potatoes
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Baked potatoes stuffed with normal breakfast fare: eggs, bacon and cheese. Delicious and fun.
Ingredients
Instructions
1) Scrub potatoes and lay them out on a baking sheet. Poke some holes in them with a fork and sprinkle on a bit of olive oil and kosher salt. Bake the potatoes at 450 degrees for about an hour or until they are tender.
NOTE: Ideally, you would use leftover baked potatoes for this dish.
2) Half each potato and scoop out some potato filling. Leave about 1/4 inch of potato around the shell.
3) If you’re using bacon or sausage cook it over medium heat in a skillet until fat renders out and it’s well-browned, about 10 minutes. Remove and reserve for later. Pour out all fat except a tablespoon or two. If you don’t use meat, add some oil to the pan to cook the eggs.
4) Beat eggs lightly with some milk. Add to pan and turn heat down to low. Stir frequently and cook until eggs are pretty runny still, definitely under-cooked, maybe 4-5 minutes.
5) Stir in any add-ins for eggs and season with salt and pepper.
6) Scoop egg mixture into potato shells.
7) Add grated cheese to each potato and bake at 350 degrees until cheese is well melted, probably 10 minutes.
8) Serve immediately!
You can see that there aren’t many ingredients in these guys, but you could customize them to fit your tastes. Basically, you could put anything in these that you would put in an omelet.
The Potatoes
The longest part of this recipe is baking the potatoes. I like to bake my potatoes a certain way. The nice thing about this recipe is that you could use leftover baked potatoes to make it which would cut your time down substantially.
If you want to start from scratch though, scrub your potatoes down, lay them out on a baking sheet and poke a few holes in the potatoes with a fork. Sprinkle them with some olive oil and kosher salt.
These will need to bake at 450 degrees for probably 60 minutes until they are tender, hence why it’s a good idea to use leftovers. Then you’ll want to let them cool for a few minutes before trying to handle them.
The Filling
I used a really basic filling for my version. I had some bacon and cheese in my fridge so I thought I’d throw those in. The list is pretty endless when it comes to fillings though: spinach, garlic, fresh tomatoes, sausage, onions, etc.
Feel free to go crazy.
Prepping the potatoes
Just like anytime you are making a double baked potato, use a spoon to hollow out the potato halves after you slice them in half.
The key to this recipe is to make sure you leave a good 1/4 inch of potato in the shell. It’s not a huge deal if you have holes in your potato, but a nice thick potato skin really helps and tastes great.
Cooking the Filling
If you’re using bacon or sausage, cook it in a skillet on medium heat until all the fat renders out and it turns nice and crispy. Remove it from the pan but keep a Tablespoon or two to cook the eggs in.
It took me about 10 minutes to get some really crispy bacon which I scooped out and set aside for later.
For the eggs, and this is important, cook them on LOWheat. You can use the grease from the bacon to cook them or if you don’t use bacon, then just add some olive oil to a skillet and use that to cook the eggs.
I scrambled my eggs lightly with a bit of milk and then added them to my pan to cook slowly on low.
The reason you want to cook them on low is because you want them on the runny side for this dish. Since we’ll finish cooking the potatoes in the oven, you want your eggs under-cooked at this point.
Feel free to add in any omelet ingredients now. I suggest pre-cooking any ingredients that you want to add like onions, peppers, etc. Definitely add a pinch of salt and pepper to the eggs at this point also.
These eggs are perfectly runny.
After this, I crumbled up my bacon and added it into my eggs and then filled each potato shell with some of the egg/bacon mixture!
Easy enough right?!
Finishing the potatoes
To finish off the potatoes, I added a bit of grated cheese onto each potato and then put them back in a 350 degree oven until the cheese is well-melted, probably 10 minutes.
The finished result is a nice little package of potato, egg, and filling that’s really tasty.
Here’s a cross-section shot so you can see the fillings.
Each potato half has a bit under 1 egg in depending on what other fillings you add in to it.
It’s a really nice little package though that worked out a lot better than I thought it would!
Give these a shot and leave a comment if you think of any fun fillings to add in.
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This is a really creative idea! Bravo!
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This sounds awesome — I love anything that allows you to experience every delicious taste of breakfast in one bite. I'd definitely throw some mushrooms in my scram egg, though, and top the whole noise with jalapeños. Yum.
You're right. Nothing better than a bacon, potato and egg breakfast. It's what we've had the last two days! And tomorrow I'll be changing it up… but only to have it this way! Yum!!!
Looks fantastic! I'm a huge mushroom lover, so I might have to add some sauteed mushrooms and onions.
Just curious… what did you do with the potato that you scooped out of the shell? I didn't see where it got mixed in with the eggs… or are you saving that goodness to turn into potato cakes?
I was just about to ask the same question! It's just the egg mixture (and bacon/fillings) that you put inside the potato shell, right?
I'm also wondering how this would work with a sweet potato filled with egg and sharp cheddar. Hmmm.
Well yea. I think that might work just fantastic ;)
I didn't put the potato filling back in, just eggs. The potatoes you could do all kinds of stuff with like potato cakes, gnocchi (?), or just save them for a quick mashed potato dish later in the week.
I sent my neighbor this post yesterday. He brought over a delicious potato this morning. AWESOME!! In my opinion, the bacon is a necessity. Thank you for the amazing idea/ post.
Boy, these look good. I think I'd add some sliced cooked green chilis (from a can if nobody was looking), or maybe salsa. if salsa, then a slice or two of avocado on top wouldn't be amiss. In the summer, of course, fresh tomato.
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Totally stealing this one! I'm already thinking of the combinations I am going to use with this one. Chipotle for sure!
I can't wait to try this! I shared it on FB – but I don't see that you are on FB?
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Thanks Niki! :)
Got it! Thank you!
Love this idea! Just wondering though, did you entertain the idea of cracking a raw egg into the potato skins and baking it like that? cause that might be a fun different filling idea, complete with runny yolk
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Sweet idea. Don't see why it wouldn't work.
um. yum.
Amazing! I'm eating one right now… I took the hint from Dan, and cracked the egg right in the potato skin. It just needs a little longer to set, but its great! Thanks for the post Nick!
Everytime I take my dog to the groomers I take them a food treat (for the humans). I’ve been doing this for 4+ years. I practice my ‘culinary’ skills on them…and they are more than happy to be ‘guinea pigs’!!! Most of the time they rave about my food but also have had a few ‘oops’ in there along the way. So I decided to try these tasty looking treats yesterday. Well the reviews are in…One of them said 'Of all the food you have brought to us, this was the best…they were delicious', another came runnng out to my car as I was leaving and said 'I had to come out and personally thank you for breakfast this morning, it was so good'. (to be continued)
(continued from karen) While I didn't taste them, for one thing I don't eat eggs, the feedback was excellent so I plan on making more for my husband and myself (for mine since I don't do eggs will mix back some of the potato with bacon, cheese, chilis & season liberally). The tweaks I made yesterday: brushed melted butter on the shelled out potato, seasoned it with garlic salt/powder (on outside skin also) and put some cheese directly in shell–so the potato itself would be flavorful. Then I added hatch chilis & seasonings to the egg mixture. Used cheddar cheese all around & bacon. Next time I will try with sausage. What a great, creative idea for a breakfast/brunch or on the go meal! Thanks for coming up with this recipe. Can't wait to make again.