Description
A delicious breakfast dish featuring baked sweet potatoes topped with eggs, bacon, and cheese.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 large sweet potatoes
- for baking
- ½ cup bacon
- cooked and crumbled
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ¼ cup shredded white cheddar cheese
- 6 large eggs
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon salt
- scallion
- minced (for topping)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
- Poke holes in the sweet potatoes and bake them for about 45 minutes or until tender.
- Once baked, let the sweet potatoes cool slightly, then slice them open and scoop out some flesh, leaving a small border.
- In a bowl, mix the scooped potato flesh with butter, bacon, cheese, black pepper, and salt.
- Fill the sweet potato skins with the mixture and make a small well in the center of each.
- Crack an egg into each well and return them to the oven for an additional 10-15 minutes until the eggs are set.
- Remove from the oven, top with minced scallions, and serve warm.
Notes
Feel free to add more toppings such as avocado or hot sauce for extra flavor.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 65 minutes
- Category: Breakfast / Brunch
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 stuffed sweet potato half
- Calories: 290 kcal
- Sugar: 7 g
- Sodium: 420 mg
- Fat: 14 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 28 g
- Fiber: 5 g
- Protein: 13 g
- Cholesterol: 165 mg
Keywords: Breakfast Sweet Potato, baked sweet potatoes, breakfast recipes, sweet potato eggs, cheddar cheese