Breakfast Hash For Dinner

Breakfast for dinner. So popular that many IHOPs are open 24 hours a day and a number of other restaurants serve breakfast all day. There’s something about pancakes and eggs for dinner that make you feel like you’re having a real treat. I love having breakfast for dinner so much that for my winter formal my junior year of high school, my friends and I chose to go to IHOP for dinner before the dance! We definitely got a few odd looks walking into the Visalia IHOP in our formals and suits. So one day I was poking around Joy The Baker’s website and I found her recipe for Breakfast Hash. I knew I wanted to make it eventually and while she made hers for breakfast, I ended up making mine for dinner. It was absolutely delicious and made enough that I had leftovers for a couple of nights. This is a great dish to share with a family or roommate too!

Breakfast Hash Ingredients L-R: Spinach, Ground Sausage, Egg, Onion, Baby Potatoes, Bell Peppers, Garlic, Mushrooms, Chives, Olive Oil, Salt & Pepper

SPINACH AND POTATO BREAKFAST HASH (serves about 3 or 4 depending on serving size)

• 1 1/2 Pounds Fingerling Potatoes (russet or new potatoes will also be great)
• 1 Medium Yellow Onion
• 3 Garlic Cloves
• 4 Tbsp Olive Oil
• 6 Oz. Sausage (pork, chicken, turkey or vegetarian sausage all work)
• 1 Tsp fennel seeds (I did not use)
• Salt & Pepper To Taste
• 2 Cups Baby Spinach Leaves
• 1 Egg for each serving

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Begin by slicing up your potatoes into bite-size pieces and arranging them on a baking sheet. Sprinkle with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake for about 20 to 30 minutes, or until potatoes are cooked through. The smaller the chunks the less time they need for baking.

Colorful baby potatoes

Baby potatoes ready for roasting

Before you start cooking the rest of the hash you want to prep all your vegetables, ie. mise en place. The original recipe calls for 1 bell pepper, but since I already had half of a red one so I bought a green one and used half of that as well. Feel free to use whichever colors you want. Chop your bell peppers into small bite-size pieces. Do the same with your onion. Mince your garlic cloves as well.

Mushrooms sliced and ready for the pan

Measure out your meat and in a small saute pan heat about a tablespoon of oil over medium high heat and break up your meat into small chunks and cook until browned. Remove to a small bowl and set aside.

Weighing out the sausage and then browning it in a small pan.

In a large skillet heat 2 tablespoons of oil over medium heat and add in your onions and bell peppers about 5 to 7 minutes until mostly cooked. Season with salt and pepper and then add in your minced garlic and cook for another minute or so. Remove to another small bowl.

Sauteing the onions, bell peppers and garlic.

By now your potatoes should be done cooking. Remove from the oven and place in your large skillet you just cooked your onions and peppers in. Turn the heat back on to medium and add in your meat of choice and pan fry together for about 5 minutes until the meat has finished cooking and the potatoes have turned a nice golden brown. This is the point when you would add in your fennel seeds. Add back in your onions and peppers and stir to combine.

Roasted Baby Potatoes fresh from the oven

Cooking the meat, potatoes and mushrooms first, then add in the onions and bell peppers.

In your small saute pan fry your egg(s) to your desired doneness. I like mine somewhere between over easy and over medium so that the yolk can be mixed with the rest of the hash. Side note, I never liked my eggs this way until I studied abroad in France and that’s how they made the eggs at school. I fell in love and with something like this hash to mix it with I think you will too!

I fried my egg to over easy.

When you turn your egg over, turn the heat off of your hash and add your spinach leaves (only enough for the number of servings you’re eating that night/morning), stirring to mix the spinach and wilt the leaves from the residual heat. Spoon mixture onto plates or pasta bowls and add your egg on top. Season with salt and pepper. Enjoy with a glass of red wine, milk, or a glass of OJ.

After turning off the heat add spinach leaves that will wilt just slightly.

To reheat as leftovers, add fresh spinach each night or morning you heat it up. Put enough of the hash in a small saute pan and heat over medium heat rather than nuke it in the microwave. Be sure to make a fresh egg as well. And enjoy once again!

Breakfast Hash with Fried Egg ready to eat!