Sweet Potato Hash With Bacon and Melted Onions Recipe (2024)

The final product was delicious, but this is a (perhaps needlessly?) complicated recipe that almost broke me. Next time: 1. Read recipe 10 times. 2. Start with plenty of time so you have time to cook the darn sweet potatoes. 3. Use less butter, maybe only 1/2 a stick--it was really greasy at the end. 4. No need to bundle thyme, garlic, etc just throw it in there. Also we cooked all the potatoes at once in a large skillet. The eggs are not optional.

To help me simplify the recipe: Nuke the sweet potatoes, dice them quite small, Brown the bacon, pour off most of the grease and drain the bacon on paper towels. In the same pan make the onions as in the recipe. remove the onions. Add the sweet potatoes and continue with step 4 above.

Disagree--nuking sweet potatoes is gross--it turns them into tasteless rubber.

Agree with above - very tasty but so many pans - and long for what is essentially a “breakfast dish” (although we ate it for Sunday supper). Egg, for sure. I nuked potatoes and they were fine. Does make good leftovers. Might throw on top of a salad.

You only need two pans... less than an hour if the very first thing you do is start booking the sweet potatoes to soften then put on the onions. Totally worth the effort. Incredible when fresh, incredible as leftovers. This method of cooking the onions is to die for and would be great in many other recipes.

Delicious. Does take long time to cook the onions. Not sure why they have you cook so many when so few used in the end. Lots of onions left over. Agree to frying bacon 1st & using same pan to cook onions. Also used only half the butter. I peeled & cubed my sweet potatoes first & boiled just til slightly tender, keeping them in ice water as I peeled & cubed to keep them from turning color. Definitely add fried eggs. I used 3 per serving. I halved the recipe and ended up with 4 generous servings.

Way over complicated! This will only take a hour if the potatoes are already cooked. If you use turkey bacon it changes the grease too. Delicious but not quick and easy.

When the recipe says to cook the potatoes at 200 for 5 minutes… Note that you actually have to pre-cook/boil the potatoes before that step. It’s mentioned in the ingredients list which is very confusing since pre-cooking the potatoes should be part of the cooking instructions.

Delicious but needs to be prepped over two days.Do not under stand two steps of folding at the end. You could do all that in one step and save 5-10 minutes.

I'm so glad to see the other comments here about this recipe. It was so complicated and, really, made no sense to me. It could have been done so much easier. I was taking this to a brunch pitch in and I was worried how it would taste. Fortunately, the flavor was amazing. But I was surprised. It starts off with cooking the onions. Seems the directions didn't match what was going on. There was no liquid. I did end up adding liquid so they didn't burn and so the herbs would permeate the onions.

This is a ridiculous recipe. You cannot list cooking sweet potatoes, the primary ingredient, as part of the ingredient list. Cooking onions for almost an hour is also really not necessary.

I totally concur with the person who said to read the recipe 10 times, but then you should re-invent it for yourself. One pan maybe two pans work, but it does need a little more information as well. For instants how should you cook the sweet potatoes? Firm? Soft? And where does all the liquid that the onions are supposed to be swimming in come from? My onions exuded absolutely no liquid, so I had to add water frequently. However, after all is said and done this is a very tasty recipe, and I’ll definitely cook it again.

Altogether too complicated for being practical but I attribute that to Thomas Keller and I have the utmost respect for him. Break this down to practical sections and enjoy!

You only need two pans... less than an hour if the very first thing you do is start booking the sweet potatoes to soften then put on the onions. Totally worth the effort. Incredible when fresh, incredible as leftovers. This method of cooking the onions is to die for and would be great in many other recipes.

Agree with above - very tasty but so many pans - and long for what is essentially a “breakfast dish” (although we ate it for Sunday supper). Egg, for sure. I nuked potatoes and they were fine. Does make good leftovers. Might throw on top of a salad.

The final product was delicious, but this is a (perhaps needlessly?) complicated recipe that almost broke me. Next time: 1. Read recipe 10 times. 2. Start with plenty of time so you have time to cook the darn sweet potatoes. 3. Use less butter, maybe only 1/2 a stick--it was really greasy at the end. 4. No need to bundle thyme, garlic, etc just throw it in there. Also we cooked all the potatoes at once in a large skillet. The eggs are not optional.

Barbarajs - yes! Delicious!

To help me simplify the recipe: Nuke the sweet potatoes, dice them quite small, Brown the bacon, pour off most of the grease and drain the bacon on paper towels. In the same pan make the onions as in the recipe. remove the onions. Add the sweet potatoes and continue with step 4 above.