These Stuffed Breakfast Potatoes are loaded with cheddar cheese, bacon, tomatoes, chives, onion, green pepper, and eggs! It’s the ultimate all in one breakfast solution. Everyone will fall in love with this unique breakfast idea.
Stuffed Breakfast Potatoes are scooped baked potatoes stuffed with cheese, your choice of veggies, bacon and an egg. Perfect for feeding a crowd.
Sometimes you totally forget posts and recipes from long ago… or from March 2013, like this one that I still struggle to name appropriately. I landed with Stuffed Breakfast Potatoes, but it still doesn’t do it justice.
I threw it out to my readers on Facebook…. what should I name this recipe and they came up with all sorts of creative ideas like Potato Boats, Stuffed Potatoes, Potato Nummers, Eggy Potato Boats… seriously all sorts of stuff. Even little individual breakfast potato casseroles.
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Stuffed Breakfast Potatoes were a magical dish that worked on the first try and was amazingly tasty, fun looking and also easy to eat. Roasted potatoes stuffed to the gills with yummy topping and then baked to a golden brown.
I’ve continued to make it for brunch on the weekends with a variety of ingredients, really whatever I have leftover in the fridge during the week.
I used bacon, green bell pepper, onion, chives, tomato to make these stuffed potatoes! All of these combined taste great in Stuffed Breakfast Potatoes!
I used a fork and knife, but you could eat it whole with your fingers like a potato skin.
Other fun stuffing ingredients could be ham, crumbled breakfast sausage, zucchini, carrot, sweet potato, mushrooms, a variety of cheese, spinach, tomatoes and more!
I baked potatoes specially for this purpose the night before. It works better if the potato is fully cooled or refrigerated overnight. Perfect baked potatoes are easy, see note below if you don’t already have them prepared.
I served my Stuffed Breakfast Potatoes with Homemade Breakfast Sausage and toast, but they really don’t require all that much in addition to their cheesy self. See the video below to watch the instructions!
Easy breakfast recipe ideas:
- Bacon, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Bread
- Chile Relleno Breakfast Casserole
- Cheesy Vegetable Breakfast Casserole
- Crispy Home Fries
How to Poach an Egg
Chipped Beef Stuffed Potatoes
Sweet Potato Hash Browns
Tools for making eggy potato boats:
Wood cutting board – wood won’t dull your knives like plastic and if treated properly, has natural antimicrobial properties.
Good knife – Global is my favorite! They are worth the price, I promise. I am kind of obsessed with them and store them tucked away so no one else can use them. Including hubby. Hands off my good stuff!
Questions you might have about how to make breakfast potatoes:
Can I make these ahead of time? Sure! You can either assemble them ahead of time and wait to bake or pre bake and reheat.
Can I freeze these breakfast potatoes? You sure can! All the ingredients freeze well. Package in airtight containers, I would recommend plastic bags for this one, and freeze for up to 6 months.
Stuffed Breakfast Potatoes
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 large baking potatoes cooked and cooled (see note below for instructions)
- 1/2 cup cheddar cheese shredded
- Fine sea salt and freshly cracked peppercorn medley
- 2 tablespoons chopped vegetables
- 2 large eggs
- 1 strip of bacon cooked and minced
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees. Cut the tops off baking potatoes. Using a spoon, hollow out leaving a 1/8 of potato along the edges and resulting in a potato boat.
- Set aside the tops and the innards to make Home Fries for another meal.
- Place a pinch of cheddar cheese, 1/4 of bacon, 1/2 tablespoon minced vegetables and a few grinds of salt and pepper in the bottom of each potato boat.
- Crack egg directly into the potato boat. Carefully place potato boats onto an aluminum lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until whites have set.
- Remove and allow to cool for 3-4 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
- If you’ve tried this recipe, come back and let us know how it was!
I made this 11/30/19 10 of them. since people where having a hard time with the whites not setting thus over cooking the yolks I scrambled the eggs. turned out great but would have been better if you would include butter in the potato after scooping the inside out, before adding the rest of the ingrediants.
Thanks for the feedback, Scott!
Love this recipe! Made it this morning, however took me twice as long to cook, egg whites were still translucent!
Hi Kim! Thanks for stopping by to let me know! Cooking times can vary so greatly on a recipe like this based on the size of the potato, egg and your oven. I’ll put a note in the recipe to let others know too. Thanks!
Wow this is creative! I really want to make this and this would be fun to eat!