Breakfast Skillet
on Nov 23, 2021, Updated Jun 12, 2024
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My healthy Breakfast Skillet is my go-to, clean-out-the-fridge type of breakfast whenever I am running low on groceries. You can use anything you have on hand and improvise according to your taste buds. Please note that everyone has a different opinion on what they consider 💪 “healthy,” so what might be healthy to me, might not be healthy to you — for example, some people don’t consider 🥚 eggs healthy, and that’s okay. Feel free to make this healthy for you and improvise accordingly.
Why You’ll Love Breakfast Skillet
This Breakfast Skillet is the best way to start your day. It is so filling and full of good-for-you ingredients, such as 🫑 peppers, potatoes and eggs. It’s a great dish to use up the last bits in your fridge: Have half a zucchini? Add it in! A couple of 🍄 mushrooms kicking around? Perfect! This one-pan wonder is hearty, delicious and will set you up for the day ahead.
How to Prepare Breakfast Skillet
🔪Use a sharp knife to finely dice 1/2 a bell pepper, a small onion and a medium potato.
🥑 To a pan over medium-high heat, add avocado oil or any oil of choice and let it get hot.
🧅 Next, add in the diced onions, potatoes and bell peppers and reduce the heat to medium-low.
🧂 Season with salt and pepper, stir together and then sauté for a few minutes.
⏲️ Cover with a lid until the potatoes are almost cooked, which should take 3-4 minutes.
🥚 After the potatoes are almost fully cooked, you can gently crack in the eggs. Cover with a lid and cook (mine took about 5 minutes for a runny yolk).
🌿 Now add a touch more salt and paprika on top of the eggs, garnish with dill, and enjoy!
Nonna’s Tip 🔪
The key to this super fast meal is to chop up everything really small so it can cook up quickly.
Variations and Substitutions for Breakfast Skillet
- You can use any veggies you have on hand, such as zucchini, 🍄 mushrooms or finely chopped broccoli.
- You are more than welcome to substitute the potato for a 🍠 sweet potato, as it’s just as delicious.
- You certainly can add some onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, cumin, oregano or even add a kick with cayenne 🌶️.
- Add any herbs you love: parsley, dill, oregano, basil, rosemary or thyme would all be delicious.
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Best Served With
- A delicious piece of crusty bread, such as my No Knead Peasant Bread.
- Serve this for a breakfast spread along with bacon, turkey bacon or my Homemade Breakfast Sausage Recipe.
Common Questions
You can really use whatever you have on hand: zucchini or eggplant, mushrooms or even finely chopped broccoli or cauliflower will work.
For sure! Ground sausage would be delicious (plant-based would work as well), or finely diced tofu would be good, you would just have to adjust the cooking time.
Yes, you certainly can add some onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, cumin, oregano, or even add a kick with cayenne.
I would suggest making a big batch of the veggie mixture so you have it for a few days, and then simply add a freshly fried egg on top when you’re ready to enjoy.
Breakfast Skillet
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon avocado oil
- ½ bell pepper, finely diced
- 1 medium potato, finely diced
- 1 small onion, finely diced
- ½ teaspoon salt, to taste
- ¼ teaspoon pepper, to taste
- ¼ teaspoon Italian seasoning, to taste
- 2 eggs
- paprika, optional
- finely chopped dill, parsley, cilantro
Instructions
- Heat a skillet over medium-high heat and add avocado oil or your preferred cooking oil. Once the oil is hot, add the onions, potatoes, and bell peppers. Reduce the heat to medium-low, season with salt and pepper, then sauté for a few minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Cover with a lid until the potatoes are almost cooked which should take 3-4 minutes. You can always check on them and taste if you need to.
- After the potatoes are almost fully cooked you can gently crack in the eggs. Cover with a lid until they are to your desired consistency. Mine took 5-6 minutes for a runny yolk.
- I added a touch more salt and paprika to my eggs, garnished with dill. If I had feta on hand, I would sprinkle it in as well, but that’s totally up to you. Enjoy.
My Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Tried this, loved it. Easy to make. Enough left over for the next day.
I think I used a bit too much vegetable, will cut the onion and peppers down next time. I used Parmentier potatoes which I oven cooked then added to the peppers and onion. All in all a quick and easy dish to make. Had mine for dinner.
Sounds incredible, Jean! Parmentier potatoes…yum! ❤️
This combines my love of breakfast with my love for one-pot meals! 🫶🏼 Will definitely make this again!
This really is the perfect recipe to use right before a grocery haul! Love it!! Thank you!
Looking for healthy breakfast potato dishes and this one totally caught my eye.
Hope you try it and love it! ❤️