Enjoy fresh Idaho® potatoes cooked in rendered bacon fat to create the ultimate breakfast side dish; Bacon and Onion Breakfast Potatoes!
We love breakfast in our home. We also feel that a hot cooked breakfast is not complete without breakfast potatoes. Something about the starchy side that makes me feel like breakfast is complete. I’m attending the second annual Food & Wine Conference here in Orlando, Florida in just three short weeks. The Idaho Potato Commission has challenged attendee’s to develop a recipe using fresh Idaho® potatoes! Since we love potatoes and adore breakfast I knew this was one recipe contest I not only wanted to enter but needed to enter!
I have my traditional breakfast potato recipe that I make time and time again. I also make southern-style breakfast potatoes on occasion. While brainstorming the other weekend I brought up the contest to my mother in-law in hopes she would help me come up with a new breakfast potato dish. She told me how she makes her breakfast potatoes, loaded with bacon! I immediately thought that was genius. She fries up the bacon, uses the rendered bacon fat to cook her potatoes in it, caramelizes onions, and crumbles the bacon on top. I think she even takes it a step further and smothers cheddar cheese on top and pops it under the broiler for a minute or two.
The idea of Bacon and Onion Breakfast Potatoes in my mind are pure genius. Without knowing all the spices and measurements my mother in-law uses for her own recipe I went to work in my own kitchen. I decided to cut the potatoes thin. I love to use my OXO Hand-held Mandoline Slicer. It’s the best slicer that can be bought for just $15! I cut everything on it from cucumbers and tomatoes to onions and potatoes! This recipe for Bacon and Onion Breakfast Potatoes is the perfect side dish to any breakfast item in town! I actually have also served this as a side with dinner the other night just because I couldn’t get my mind of this recipe. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to cook my traditional breakfast potatoes again. Even my bacon hating husband LOVED these breakfast potatoes!
Katie Original Recipe
Bacon and Onion Breakfast Potatoes
Equipment
- 1 Stovetop
Ingredients
- 4 Idaho® potatoes scrubbed and thinly sliced (about 1.5 lbs)
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 6 strips of Bacon + rendered bacon fat about 2 tbsp
- ¼ cup white onion diced
- 1 teaspoon Lawrys Seasoning Salt
- ⅛ teaspoon Black Pepper
- ¼ teaspoon Smoked Paprika
- 2 tablespoon fresh parsley minced
Instructions
- Scrub and thinly slice about 1.5 pounds (4) Idaho® potatoes. Rinse in a pot with cold water three times until the water runs clear. Place on stove top, add one tablespoon of salt, and cook on high for 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are fork tender. Drain and place to the side.
- While potatoes are cooking, cook the six slices of bacon in a skillet on medium-high heat for 3-5 minutes (turning half way through) until golden brown and crispy. Work in batches if need be, and place the crispy bacon to the side on a paper towel. Make sure you keep all the rendered bacon fat in the skillet.
- Place the drained cooked potatoes and the diced onions in the skillet with the rendered bacon fat. Sprinkle Lawrys seasoning salt, black pepper, and smoked paprika on top of the potato and onions. Carefully flip potatoes to mix the seasoning (trying not to break the thin slices of potatoes). Cook on medium heat for 10-15 minutes until golden brown, flipping potatoes often to prevent burning. Once the potatoes are cooked to your liking place the minced fresh parsley in the skillet and crumble the bacon on top. Serve immediately.
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Disclaimer: I am not required to post a recipe for Idaho Potato Commission. This is a voluntary contest. Three winners will be selected and will win a cash prize. As always all opinions are my own.
Kayle (The Cooking Actress)
YUM! That sums it up! I love these breakfast potatoes-the onions just put it over the top for meeee
Katie
Thanks Kayle!