I YAM Excited for Breakfast - Sweet Potato Hash

Do you ever feel like there aren't enough days to try all the recipes you see or come up with? When I feel like that, I will start meal planning around events with friends or family so that I can try a new recipe each time. Who doesn’t want a free home cooked meal?

A couple of weeks ago I wanted to make a breakfast of champions for my Smalls and G Smalls (sorority sisters in my lineage for those non Greek Life individuals). I planned on making homemade sweet potato hash accompanied by eggs and bacon. What more could you want, especially after a night of enjoying some libations?

When you start your day right with a big breakfast, you are just happier

Ingredients:

2 sweet potatoes, washed

1 medium yellow onion, sliced

3 tbsp olive oil

dried thyme, salt, black pepper, and Adobo seasoning (I put this ish on everything) to taste

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp unsalted butter

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

2. Dice the sweet potatoes into half inch cubes and place onto a baking sheet (you may need to use two to ensure the sweet potatoes are in one layer). Toss on oil, and seasoning. If I had to guesstimate the seasoning amounts, it'd be 3 tsp of dried thyme, 2 tsp of salt, 2 tsp of black pepper, and 2 tsp of Adobo seasoning.

3. Place in oven and bake for 40 minutes or until sweet potatoes are crisping up (you'll want to stir the potatoes halfway through the baking process)

4. While potatoes are in the oven, place a medium saucepan on medium heat. Drizzle in 1 tbsp olive oil and butter.

5. Once the butter is melted, add in onions, stir to coat in oil/butter mixture, and cover with a lid

6. Since we are caramelizing the onions, just leave it alone to do its' thing. Stir every once in a while to ensure it is not burning.

7. Once the sweet potatoes are crisp on the outside and tender on the inside (it should be easy to poke through the sweet potato with a knife or fork) and the onions are caramelized, carefully remove the baking sheet(s) and add the sweet potatoes into the caramelized onions.

8. Cook to combine the flavors together and taste to check the seasonings. Add more as necessary.

Serve and enjoy! This dish refrigerates well, just crisp up the sweet potato hash on the stove or in the oven to warm.

Leftovers crisped up well on the stove