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Easy breakfast skillet with potatoes ham and eggs topped with goat cheese in a white bowl

Easy Breakfast Skillet with Potatoes Recipe

An easy meal to make for break or dinner using simple ingredients you may already have in your pantry.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Breakfast, Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4
Calories 695 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 5 eggs
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 2 potatoes Small
  • 1 medium bell pepper, diced
  • ¼ large onion, chopped
  • ½ lb. ham-diced
  • 2 large capped portobello mushrooms
  • 1 tbsp butter (about the equivalent of 3 pats)
  • salt
  • pepper
  • garlic powder
  • dill

Instructions
 

Gather Equipment

  • Gather your tools and prep bowls
    Breakfast skillet ingredients including potatoes ham eggs green pepper mushroom and onion on a cutting board

Gather Ingredients

  • Gather the ingredients you want to use for the recipe besides the main ingredients

Prep Ingredients

  • Chop onions
  • Chop bell pepper
    Prepped breakfast skillet ingredients in bowls including diced ham mushrooms green pepper and eggs
  • Chop potatoes
  • Dice the ham (if using ham as your protein)
  • Chop mushrooms
  • Crack the eggs in a bowl then set aside
    Four eggs cracked into a glass bowl for easy breakfast skillet recipe with potatoes

Start with Potatoes

  • Add butter or margarine or avocado oil to the skillet
  • Heat at medium heat
  • Add potatoes to cook
  • Add a pinch of salt to flavor
  • Let cook for 8-10 minutes

Add Vegetables

  • Add chopped onions
  • Sauté with potatoes in skillet until translucent
  • Add bell pepper
  • Add mushrooms
  • Sautee for a few minutes until softness you want is reached

Add Protein

  • Add diced ham
  • Let cook for 2-3 minutes until heated and cooked with vegetables

Whisk Eggs

  • Using whisk, whisk eggs
  • Add 1/4 cup milk to mixture and whisk more.
    Whisking eggs in a glass bowl for easy breakfast skillet recipe with potatoes

Add to Skillet

  • Add eggs and milk mixture to the skillet
    Eggs poured over ham potatoes and vegetables cooking in a skillet for easy breakfast skillet recipe
  • Don't mix. Just pour the mixture over the vegetable mixture in skillet
  • Let cook until eggs are cooked through a bit.
  • Start slow and begin from the edges and to mix the mixture
    Perfect — finished pan shot, eggs cooked through, everything combined. Great color with the green peppers and yellow eggs. Alt text: Finished easy breakfast skillet with potatoes ham mushrooms and eggs in a pan
  • Don't rush this, you want creamy eggs and eggs that cook through. Rushing this step will result in a runny mixture that is layered on items in the skillet.

Add seasonings

  • During this process, add seasoning of choice (salt, pepper, garlic, dill, etc)
  • Mix together

Serve

  • Once cooked through, serve in a bowl with a side of toast, or a half of bagel, and add a splash of fruit. Goat cheese makes a nice addition to this meal.
    Easy breakfast skillet with potatoes ham mushrooms and eggs served in a white bowl
    • Potatoes can take a little longer depending on the size of the cut. Be patient, Don't rush this step.
    Use a large non-stick skillet to provide more room if serving more than 4.
    Don't forget to add the milk - this makes the eggs lighter and fluffier.

Notes

Variations: 
Add grated cheese as a topping once cooking process is almost complete.  This is for the cheese lovers in the house. 
Adjust the vegetables to the fresh vegetables you want in the recipe - zucchini, squash, different mushrooms, different colored bell peppers.  Make it Mexican and add jalapenos, and corn or even black beans. 

Nutrition

Serving: 2cupsCalories: 695kcalCarbohydrates: 50gProtein: 40gFat: 39.9gSaturated Fat: 18.9gCholesterol: 359mgPotassium: 2037mgFiber: 14gSugar: 3.5g
Keyword breakfast skillet, one dish meal, quick
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