Mexican Breakfast Hash
This Mexican Breakfast Hash is loaded with seasoned, crisp potatoes, peppers, onions, bacon and eggs! This is the perfect one pan breakfast recipe!
This easy one-pan breakfast hash is Mr. Maebells favorite breakfast. Though he isn’t one to ever turn down biscuits, gravy, or a good, hearty casserole, he loves crispy breakfast potatoes! This Mexican Breakfast Hash features perfectly seasoned potatoes, peppers, onions, crispy bacon, and eggs. It is absolutely the best way to start the day!
This dish also happens to be naturally gluten-free and is easy to customize based on your personal preference. You can easily swap the potatoes for sweet potatoes, or bacon for ham if you prefer. The possibilities are endless!
Ingredients for Mexican Breakfast Hash
To make this easy one-pan fiesta breakfast hash you’ll need the following ingredients:
- Bacon
- Diced potatoes
- Olive oil
- Garlic powder
- Smoked paprika
- Cumin
- Saly
- Onion
- Peppers, sweet or spicy whatever you like better
- Eggs
How to Make Breakfast Hash
This Mexican Breakfast Hash requires just a few easy steps:
- Slice the bacon into small pieces and cook over medium heat until they are crispy.
- Toss the diced potatoes in olive oil and spices until they are evenly coated.
- Add the potatoes to the skillet in an even layer and fry them without stirring. After 5 minutes, occasionally stir the potatoes and cook for about 10 more minutes until they are fork-tender.
- Add the chopped peppers and onions to the pan and cook until the vegetables are tender.
- Make four wells in the hash and carefully crack an egg in each one. Continue to cook until the eggs have set to your liking.
Substitutions for Breakfast Hash
This recipe is completely customizable to your taste or whatever you have on hand! Here are a few of our favorite variations:
- Potatoes: swap for sweet potatoes, butternut squash, or your favorite yam
- Bacon: you can use any meat you prefer. Ham, sausage, or ground turkey will all work.
- Spices: swap the spice mixture for your favorite blend
- Peppers: use sweet peppers, jalapenos or if you want to omit them you can swap for mushrooms.
- Optional: garnish with salsa, sour cream, avocado, and green onions.
Tips for the Best Breakfast Potatoes
- Cut Uniformly: To ensure the potatoes cook evenly make sure they are cut as uniformly as possible. If some are very small, and some are large they will not cook through at the same time.
- Toss to Coat: You can toss the potatoes with the spices in a bowl, or as soon as you add them to the skillet, either work. Just make sure you coat the potatoes well so they are all perfectly seasoned.
- Large Skillet: Use a large skillet so you have plenty of room to cook the vegetables.
More Easy and Healthy Breakfast Recipes
- Baked Eggs with Cheese Grits
- Sausage and Spinach Quiche
- Crispy Homemade Hash Browns
- Spinach and Bacon Egg Muffins
- Gluten-Free Strawberry Vanilla Buttermilk Waffles
- Keto Sausage and Biscuits
Get the Recipe: Mexican Breakfast Hash
Ingredients
- 4 slices of bacon
- 4 cups of diced potatoes, scrubbed clean (about 4 medium size potatoes)
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil, divided
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup red or white onion, chopped
- 1 cup chopped peppers, I used sweet peppers and seeded jalapeños, but bell pepper works too
- 4 eggs
Instructions
- Carefully slice the bacon into small pieces. Heat your skillet to medium heat and cook bacon until crisp, approximately 4 minutes, stirring often. When bacon is crisp remove from skillet and place on a paper towel.
- Drain off the bacon grease, reserving about 1 tablespoon of the grease in the skillet.
- Toss the potatoes in a large plastic bag or bowl and toss with one tablespoon of olive oil, coat well. Toss the potatoes in the spices until evenly coated.
- Add the potatoes to the skillet in an even layer. Fry the potatoes at least 5 minutes, without stirring. Stir occasionally and cook about 10 minutes until they are fork tender.
- Add the pepeprs and onions and the last tablespoon of olive oil if needed, cook, stirring occasionally until tender. This should take 5-7 minutes.
- Make four wells in the hash and carefully crack an egg in each one. Cook until the eggs have set to your liking.
Annie, you just described my life to a T! Since I was just recently married, everyone is always asking us when we’re having kids (even before we were married we got that question)! For some reason, it seems to natural to ask that, but for me, it’s a little too personal. My husband and I are also on the fence about kids…it swings each way on different days. I don’t want to disappoint anyone (mainly our parents who really want grandchildren) but we have to do what’s best for us. I’m tired after just coming home from work and making dinner for two..don’t know how those super-power women do it with kids to deal with, too!
But your hash looks delicious! I think your no-kids rage (which dogs totally DO count) inspired you to make a great breakfast! I’m loving everything about this! Pinned!
I am glad I am not the only feels this way! I mean on one hand, I think it is kind of nice that people think we would be fit parents! ha! But on the other hand, what is the rush?!
This looks fantastic! I’d love to eat this for breakfast any day! I’m single and almost everyone I know is married so I constantly get the “Why aren’t you married?” question and it’s the worst. I honestly don’t know how people get everything done with a spouse in the house, much less kids, ha ha!
I agree!! My husband and I work opposite shifts most weeks and when he is around I get NOTHING productive done! ha! I do love when he is home, but holy cow, I can’t imagine what a mess our house would be if we were home together all the time!
This looks awesome!! My hubby is a big savory breakfast kinda guy so I’m always looking for new ideas for him. We have potatoes in our garden right now, so this is perfect!!
I bet he would love this, my husband scarfed it down!
This looks incredible!
Thanks Carrie!
This is the perfect brinner! I get these questions all the time too. We don’t even have a dog, so imagine what I might have said to that woman!
The dog response is my “go to” I can’t imagine what I would say if I didn’t have them! ha!
As your mom, I will remind you that it looked so much easier when I had small kids because I didn’t work outside the home when y’all were little. I also didn’t workout and allowed my physical condition to go to “hell in a hand basket;” I grocery shopped at midnight, and showered early morning or late night. BUT, it was some of the best times of my life!
Well I still don’t know how you did it!! I am sure the four of us were not an easy bunch!
I say enjoy your couple time for as long as you like. 😀 I think you need to really be ready for kids.
I’d be ready for some of this hash for dinner. It looks delicious. My husband loves anything with potatoes and eggs. Pinning!
Thanks Cindy! It is hard to go wrong with potatoes and eggs! 🙂
I think we are the same person! haha! As much as I love kids and want them, I don’t see how I could possibly keep up my lifestyle if I were to have them right now. I am so busy right now, that I just don’t see how kids will fit into my life, but hopefully I’ll figure it out! Thankfully I don’t get the “why don’t you have kids?” question too much, but when I do get it, it is usually from fairly new moms who assure me parenthood is the best thing in the world. I hope they are telling the truth, haha! On a better note, this breakfast hash looks amazing! I love breakfast food, but never seem to have time to make it before I go to work in the morning. I think I need to plan for a breakfast for dinner night soon 🙂
Our best friends have the most precious little girl and we are totally in love with her, I think that is one reason we get the question a lot. But the difference is I get to send her home! ha! I hope you enjoy this! I made it two nights in a row!
I think this hash looks amazing – and I am a HUGE fan of hash for breakfast, so I am loving this (pinning!!!). And my sistah… I so get you. Mom’s are AMAZING. I don’t know how they do it either!!!
Thank you Kristi! 🙂
As a mom, let me tell you: Kids are NO JOKE. Babies are the easy part! We got married young and were both pretty much sure we didn’t want kids. About six years later, I had an extremely sudden and powerful desire to have a baby, like NOW. There was no changing my mind. It was a rough road trying to get my husband to agree to this complete life change, but we did it. Now we have two!
What I’ve realized lately, now that I have a 3-year-old and a 7-year-old, is that I had no freaking idea what it was like to have kids. I pretty much grasped what it would be like to have a baby. Waking up at night, crying, constantly needing attention, diapers, etc. What I didn’t understand was tantrums and talking back and arguing and making messes constantly and all the stuff that would come later. I am mentally and physically drained every single day, and wanting to work on a blog that can easily take 30 hours/week when two small people need me constantly doesn’t help!
Of course I love my boys to pieces, and I believe I am somehow a better person for raising them. Sometimes I wish I could sleep until 8 am or just be lazy for an entire Saturday like I used to though! That will come when they are older I know, and I will hardly remember these tiring days. (Or you might have a girl, and then forget everything I just said.)
P.S. This breakfast hash looks wonderful!
Oh Andi you hit the nail on the head! Sometimes I think about the billions of times I probably rolled my eyes as a child/teen and am for sure that I would be in for payback in a big way! I worry that I would be too impatient to raise a child! Or this may sound silly but I worry about all of the influences that are just totally out of your control, what they would be introduced to, if they decided to make bad decisions…just all of it! It seems like so much more than I could ever do!
Can I just say, I think I’m in love with this hash. In my house we eat a lot of hash. I think I’m changing my plans for dinner and making this instead. YUM
Thank you Kathy!! I hope you enjoy!
Mexican breakfast hash may be the best thing ever invented seriously!
Thanks Jocelyn, we looooved it!
Haha! I love this! I can totally relate. “When are you and Shawn going to have babies?” How do I answer that? What if I was actively trying to get pregnant and was having problems. Such a personal question for casual conversation! My go to answer is, “Not yet, but someday.” That’s vague enough…hopefully…
This hash sounds delicious! Great photo’s!
That is a good answer….sometimes I just stare at people blankly because I honestly do not know how to answer the question! ha!
My master plan is to just never get married, then no one can ever ask me when the babies are coming, right? I’m sitting right there next to you on the “we can hardly dress ourselves” bench, I don’t need the added responsibility of keeping a human alive. But you could probably pay a nanny in this hash — it looks incredible! I don’t eat bacon, but I think extra avocado makes up for that 😉
Agreed Kelly! I am having a hard enough time keeping my basil plant alive! HA!
I got married right after college and started having babies right away. Let me tell ya, people will make a comment about that too! There’s no getting around it. It is much more common now to be an older mom. Having 4 kids I can say that the baby stuff was pretty easy, driving them around to the 8 thousand activities is the real time eater. Hopefully at least one of them will visit me when I’m old 😉 This hash looks amazing by the way!
Ha! I love this Sherri! We have a lot of nephews, we decided we need to be super active in their lives in case we don’t have children. Someone will need to take care of us when we are old! 😉
If I could have hash everyday for breakfast, I would be on cloud nine. As it is, this one sounds perfect! I love the Mexican seasonings that you added to this. I’ll definitely have to try this very soon!!