How to Make Breakfast Potatoes with Onions
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This recipe for how to make breakfast potatoes with onions is so easy and delicious. Breakfast potatoes are a breakfast staple for many of my meals & I love to serve them with eggs. Sometimes I make them an ingredient in breakfast burritos, too! They go great with eggs benedict and can even go in a breakfast scramble! It took me about 20 years of making breakfast potatoes to figure out this easy method which combines high heat and a few minutes of broiling at the end. Adding the raw onions in at the beginning saves you the trouble of having to cook those in a skillet separately.
Ingredients (serves 2)
2 large russet potatoes
1 small yellow onion
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F
- Cut the potatoes into 1/2-inch cubes and pour them into a large bowl
- Peel the onion and cut it into long thin slices (sort of like cutting an apple into slices, but thinner width), add to bowl
- Add olive oil and seasoning to the bowl and toss everything until combined (you can use a spoon or even just use your hands to toss)
- Divide mixture evenly onto two medium-sized baking sheets (one large one is also fine), create one thin layer
- bake potatoes on the center oven rack for 20 minutes, remove from the oven and use a spatula to toss them
- broil for 4 minutes on high, use a spatula to serve them on plates or place them in a serving bowl.
Tips: You can really get creative with this recipe for breakfast potatoes with onions if you want to. Like it spicy? Try adding 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper to the mix. Cumin also tastes amazing on these potatoes! Love onions? Add 2 instead of one! Love cheese? sprinkle some on and broil for one minute in the end! It’s important that you toss the potatoes at least once to prevent them from burning.
