This sweet potato breakfast recipe will make your wildest dreams come true!! (If your dreams involve sweet potatoes...) What could be more delicious that a grab-and-go breakfast made from sweet potato and eggs? I love sweet potatoes and especially for breakfast! I found these tots in my local grocery store and decided to pair them up with eggs and ham for a super easy sweet potato cup. Success!
How to make a delicious breakfast from sweet potatoes:
The picture above shows the sweet potato cups after their inital baking and filled with diced ham and ready for the eggs to be added. These little cups were fun to make and even more fun to eat!
Be sure to check out my variation on this recipe where I add spinach to the mix. My Sweet Potato Florentine Breakfast Cups are just waiting for you to try them...
Recipe
Sweet Potato Breakfast Cups
Ingredients
- 19 oz . package frozen sweet potato tots
- Oil for greasing muffin tin
- ½ cup lean diced ham
- 4 eggs
- 1 Tablespoon milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Line muffin tin with foil liners.
- Coat liners with nonstick spray.
- Allow tots to thaw then place about 5-6 tots in each cup.
- Mash tots with back of spoon or small glass to form cup shape in muffin tin.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove cups from oven and add diced ham. Lower oven temperature to 350 degrees.
- Mix eggs and milk until evenly combined, add salt and pepper as desired.
- Divide egg mixture between muffin cups.
- Bake cups for 15 minutes or until eggs are set.
- Remove from oven and serve.
- Makes 6 breakfast cups.
Sweet Potato Breakfast Cups
Christy wells
Do these freeze well?
easyhealth living
Yes, they freeze well. You can reheat them in the microwave or the oven.
Peggy
These look so good. I love sweet potatoes, can't wait to try this this weekend.
easyhealth living
Thanks! They are so easy to make too, just be sure to oil your muffin tin well or use muffin cups to make clean-up easier.
Barb Turn
Any thoughts on using fresh sweet potato instead of frozen sp?
easyhealth living
Fresh sweet potatoes would probably work fine, I think I would grate them so they would have the same type texture as the frozen tots. Good luck and let me know how it works!
Amy
What type of oil? I have made these using regular tots and added some other ingredients but they stuck AWFUL to pan? LOVED them but a little worried about trying again because of how awful clean up was.
easyhealth living
I have had good results using foil muffin liners coated with non-stick spray. Hope that works better for you!
Katie Rushing
YUM! I made these this morning and they were simply delightful 🙂 I posted these on my blog and credited them to you. Thanks for sharing. Yay for sweet potatoes!
easyhealth living
I'm so glad you liked them!! Yes, sweet potatoes are awesome!!
Peke
I used regular sweet potatoes (really, yams) and just baked them as usual, pureed them with skins on along with 2 egg whites (next time I'd use at least one more, save yolks for filling) then baked as per recipe. The sweet potato cup did still turn out a bit soft so next time I'll try putting them in foil liners. They are delis though!
Jessica
where did you purchase sweet potato tots? Or what brand are they?
easyhealth living
Hi Jessica, I used Alexia brand sweet potato tots. I've seen these at most major grocery stores, so hopefully you will be able to find them at your local store. Good luck!!
sarah
Just wondering if you could freeze the sweet potato cups .
easyhealth living
Hi Sarah,
Yes you can freeze and reheat these and they will be delicious. Thanks for trying them out!
Kim
These are awesome! I made this yesterday and found a recipe for sweet potato tots and made those first. I doubled the recipe. Do you have the caloric info?
Thank you for an amazing recipe and for sharing!!
easyhealth living
Hi Kim, so glad you enjoyed these!Here’s a rundown on the nutritionals for each breakfast cup: 210 calories, 7gm fat, 400mg sodium (use low sodium ham to reduce this number), 28gm carb, 8 gm protein - this is using the frozen tots listed in the recipe. Thanks for stopping by, Charlotte
Marisa
How many cups are in 1 serving? These look amazing! 🙂
easyhealth living
Hi Marisa, 1 serving = 1 cup. Hope you enjoy these-Thanks for stopping by!