One of the recipes for sweet potatoes I recently tried was a sweet potato burger. (It was kind of a flop but my husband enjoyed it so I was glad about that.) Anyway I cooked a sweet potato and didn't use all of it in the burger mixture so I was trying to figure out a way to use up the rest of the cooked sweet potato. That's when the Sweet Potato Hash was born!
I had to look up the definition of "hash" because honestly I wasn't sure what went into a true hash. A hash is basically chopped meats, potato seasoning and other ingredients such as onions. The first time I made this I was just throwing things together and man was it delicious!
This is what goes into my sweet potato hash:
green bell pepper, chopped (but you can use any color or all three is you want)
onion, chopped
bacon (I use precooked and dice it)
cubed cooked sweet potato (I boiled/steamed it in slices first)
cubed tomatoes
and a fried egg to top it off
All you need to do is chop up as much of each ingredient as you choose. It depends on how much you want to eat by how much you chop.
First I sauteed the pepper, onion and bacon in a frying pan over medium heat.
Then push the onion, pepper and bacon to one side of the pan and add the sweet potato. Keep the heat at medium so you can get a nice brown on your sweet potatoes. (My heat wasn't high enough so I didn't get that nice brown, and i forgot to push everything to the side.)
Then I cubed some tomato and added it for a few minutes at the end of the cooking.
I transferred my sweet potato hash to a plate and then fried an egg in the same pan I cooked the hash in. Then I topped my hash with my egg (sorry it doesn't look that appealing, but it tastes delicious.)
I like this sweet potato hash because it doesn't have as much starch since there are no white potatoes. The tomatoes also add a nice freshness.
Feel free to anything you want to this: green onion, cilantro, jalapeno, etc. The possibilities are endless!
Enjoy your sweet potato hash!
