Name: Sausage Sweet Potato Hash
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1 pound Italian sausage; 1/2 cup onion (chopped); 1 tablespoons garlic (minced); 4 cups sweet potatoes (cubed); 4 eggs; 1/2 cup cheddar cheese (shredded); 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 teaspoon sea salt; 1/4 teaspoon black pepper; 2 green onions (sliced)

Tender sweet potatoes and savory sausage are cooked together in a hearty breakfast skillet, that is topped with eggs and cheddar cheese.

Our Sausage and Sweet Potato Hash is an easy, satisfying one pan meal that’s just as good for breakfast as it is for lunch or dinner.

One skillet of a delicious sausage and sweet potato breakfast hash resting on a blue and white plaid napkin.

This post is sponsored by Utah Pork, but all opinions are my own!

Jennifer, author of Plowing Through Life, smiling in kitchen.

Why You’ll Love About This Sausage and Sweet Potato Recipe

Savory herbs and spices bring out the best in Italian sausage, pairing perfectly with tender cubes of sweet potato and eggs in this easy one-skillet meal.

Packed with protein, this hearty skillet is satisfying enough to keep you feeling full throughout the day. It’s a great option when you want a filling breakfast that will keep you going.

A friend from my workout class originally shared this recipe and this Zucchini Sausage Bake with me as a simple way to add more protein to my meals and stay satisfied. With wholesome ingredients and plenty of protein, it has become a favorite nutrient-dense meal.

The eggs can be lightly scrambled right in the skillet or left to cook sunny-side up, depending on your preference. My kids love the scrambled version, especially with a drizzle of maple syrup over the sausage and sweet potato hash.

What I Love:

Easy to prepare – We tested how to make sweet potatoes in a skillet and found that they cook up so fast and so well in the sausage drippings.
Full of flavor – Sausage is the base flavor in this recipe that is mellowed out by sweet potatoes and eggs to become a complete and delicious meal.
Leftovers reheat well – This skillet recipe is a great choice for breakfast meal prep because just like our Cowboy Skillet Breakfast, leftovers warm up easily in the microwave.
So Many variations. Can substitute chorizo for more spice or switch riced cauliflower or spaghetti squash for sweet potatoes if you want to decrease carbohydrates.

A flavorful mixture of diced sweet potatoes resting on a sausage and egg mixture with a sprinkling of cheddar cheese being lifted on a scoop above the skillet.

Ingredients Needed

Italian Sausage – we have a homemade sausage recipe that is popular, but any type of sausage, including smoked sausage can work well in this dish.
Sweet Potatoes – two medium potatoes makes 4 cups of 1/2″ cubes.
Seasonings – toss the cubed potatoes in olive oil, salt and pepper.
Eggs – add as many eggs as you’d like as long as there’s room in the pan.
Mix-Ins – chopped onion and minced garlic deepen the flavors.
Garnish – freshly shredded cheddar cheese and a few slices of green onions are the basic toppings. Sliced of avocado replace green onion when we want a heartier meal with veggies.

Ingredients to make sausage sweet potato hash are sweet potatoes, green onions, minced garlic, sea salt, olive oil, eggs, Italian sausage, onion and cheddar cheese on a wooden counter top.

Roasting sweet potato cubes in the air fryer or oven can make cooking the skillet itself quicker, but it adds extra cooking time overall and creates more dishes to wash.

Using leftover roasted sweet potatoes is another easy option, but you can also cook the sweet potatoes directly in the skillet for a simple one pan meal.

Save Time Cubing Sweet Potatoes

My hair dresser shared one of her best kitchen hacks is using a food chopper to cube sweet potatoes. This tip is the secret to making small, equally sized cubes that make skillet preparation possible.

Peel and slice the sweet potato and then use a vegetable chopper (affiliate link) to do the more tedious final steps

Food chopper showing the easiest way to chop sweet potatoes into cubes with a whole potato, slices and cubes showing each step.

How to Make Sweet Potato Sausage Hash

Using a large, deep skillet brown sausage over medium high heat. The sausage is done cooking when it is fully crumbled and there is no more pink remaining.

Scoop sausage onto a paper towel lined plate. Do not pour the skillet because retaining 1 to 2 tablespoons of drippings is key to cooking the potatoes.

While the sausage is cooking prepare small cubes of sweet potatoes.

Use a mixing bowl to coat the diced sweet potatoes with olive oil, salt and pepper. Stir to coat evenly. Then turn the skillet down to medium heat and stir potatoes into sausage drippings.

Meat masher stirring breakfast sausage as it cooks in a deep skillet.

Cubed sweet potatoes coated with olive oil and seasoned with salt and pepper in a white mixing bowl.

Stir potatoes once or twice over the 8 minutes while they cook. If the skillet gets dry it may be necessary to add 1 to 2 tablespoons of additional olive oil.

After 8 to 10 minutes add chopped onion and minced garlic and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes until they become translucent.

Small cubes of sweet potatoes frying in sausage drippings in a non-stick skillet pan.

Chopped onion and minced garlic added to a skillet of partially cooked sweet potatoes.

Once the potatoes are nearly tender or about 80% of the way cooked add sausage back to the skillet and stir.

Make four spots or wells where an egg can be cracked and cook directly on the skillet. Add eggs, one at a time.

Cooked and crumbled sausage and cubes of sweet potatoes in a skillet with four wells made to add eggs to.

Four whole eggs cracked into a skillet of sausage and sweet potato cubes.

Lightly scramble eggs with a fork if desired, or leave whole.

Cover and cook over low heat for another 5 to 8 minutes or until the eggs are cooked to your desired doneness.

A light layer of cheddar cheese freshly shredded over the sausage and sweet potato hash with eggs in a non-stick skillet.

Shred a little cheddar cheese on top and then garnish with slices of green onion.

Serve warm right out of the skillet and enjoy!

Side view of crumbled Italian sausage nestled in tender sweet potato cubes with a few eggs added and cheddar cheese on top.

Jennifer’s Recipe Tips and Tricks

The biggest variables in this sweet potato and sausage hash recipe are the amount of fat in different brands of sausage and the size of the sweet potatoes.
A little fat is keep to sautéing small cubes of sweet potatoes well without burning.
Watch closely that the skillet doesn’t dry out and only add a small amount of olive oil at a time. Too much oil will create soggy potatoes.
Avoid adding water to the skillet as we learned in testing that it will smoke and make the potatoes very mushy.
Freshly shredded cheese melts smoothly where pre shredded cheese will maintain it’s matchstick form because of the anti-caking agents that are used.