Creating a delicious morning meal like my Breakfast Lovers Cheesy Skillet Breakfast is a great way to show your friends and family that you care.
This post is sponsored by Cabot Creamery. The opinions, recipe, and images are 100% my own.
Do you love breakfast? I certainly do, and for years they’ve been telling us its the most important meal of the day.
So why not make the most delicious meal of the day? Creating a dish like my Cheesy Skillet Breakfast isn’t difficult or time-consuming. In fact, you can do all of the prep the night before.
What do you need to make a Skillet Breakfast?
I always start by gathering the ingredients I need to create my recipe. In chef speak we call this the Mise en Place (everything in its place).
As you can see you can prep all of the ingredients that night before. Then it’s just a matter of getting the ingredients cooked and put together which should take 30 – 40 minutes.
Can I substitute ingredients in my Skillet Breakfast?
I used Mexican style chorizo for this recipe, but you could use any sausage that you like. I prefer loose sausage meat, but you could also you diced or sliced cooked sausage. If you like Andouille or Italian sausage it’s all up to you.
I love bacon so that was a no brainer for me. If you prefer to leave out the bacon its not going to hurt the recipe. Or go with all bacon and no sausage, remember recipes are guidelines.
Onions and peppers are a must, once cooked they add flavors that can’t be replicated. That being said, it’s your food and it should have ingredients you enjoy eating. My wife hates both onions and peppers so they rarely make it into anything I cook at home. Tomatoes are just for color, as is the chopped parsley, it’s your call.
Potatoes can be any variety you like, including sweet potatoes. This breakfast would be amazing with sweet potatoes.
It’s hard to imagine that anyone wouldn’t want cheese in their skillet breakfast, so I’m going to tell you to use your favorite variety of Cabot Cheese in your recipe.
And yes all this cheese and more is in my fridge. What’s your favorite variety of Cabot Cheese?
Can I cook all of the ingredients in the oven?
You sure can. I would use separate pans for the bacon and sausage, so you can drain the extra grease off before mixing the ingredients together. You can roast the potatoes for half the time before adding the onions, peppers and tomatoes.
After the ingredients are cooked, mix them all together top with the cheese, parsley and eggs and finish under the broiler. Okay, it’s one pan but no stovetop required if you choose this route.
You could also cook this on your barbecue grill if that skill set is in your wheelhouse.
Do I need to use a Cast Iron Pan for a Skillet Breakfast?
No, you don’t. You can use any type of pan you like. Honestly, in this case, the cast iron skillet is more for presentation.
This can easily be made on sheet pans or in your favorite casserole dish.
I did use the cast iron pan for cooking the bacon and chorizo. After removing the meats and draining off the grease I then sauteed the onions and peppers in a little of the grease. Feel free to use olive oil if you prefer.
How do I make a Cheesy Skillet Breakfast?
Now that I’ve explained the hows and whys lets get on with how I prepared my skillet breakfast.
After doing all the prep, the first step was roasting the potatoes.
I used parchment paper to line my baking sheet, making the end process and clean up so much easier.
After the potatoes, meats, onions and peppers are ready, put them all together on the sheet pan. Top the mixture with Cabot Cheese and finely chopped parsley.
Place the pan back in the oven for 3 minutes to let the cheese melt.
Remove the baking sheet from the oven and very carefully pick up the parchment and slide all the ingredients into a cast-iron skillet (or casserole dish).
Add whole eggs to the top of the ingredients. Don’t worry if a few of the eggs break, it happens. Cracking them into a bowl first and using a tablespoon to place the will help keep breaking the eggs to a minimum.
Make sure to season the eggs well with sea salt and black pepper, sprinkling a little more parsley for color.
*Chef Dennis Tip – Making little wells in the mixture will help keep them in place.
Turn on the broiler and place the cast iron pan back into the oven. This will cook the eggs.
I like mine sunny side up so I let them cook just long enough to see the whites becoming solid. If you leave them too long the yolks will start to harden.
Do I have to cook the eggs in the oven?
No, you don’t.
You can finish your Cheesy Skillet Breakfast on the stovetop. Simply cover the pot with a lid (or aluminum foil) and let the heat and steam cook the eggs.
You could also pan-fry the eggs and place them on top of individual servings.
If you enjoyed this recipe, you may also like these:
- Huevos Rancheros
- Buttermilk Fried Chicken and Sweet Potato Waffles
- Waffle Iron Smoked Salmon Quesadilla
- Banana Stuffed French Toast Waffles
Cheesy Skillet Breakfast
Equipment
- Cast Iron or Ovenproof Skillet
Ingredients
- 4 cups potatoes washed and cut into cubes
- ½ cup red onions diced
- ½ cup sweet peppers diced
- ½ cup grape tomatoes or diced tomatoes
- 4 ounces bacon cooked and diced
- 4 ounces chorizo (or your favorite sausage) crumbled
- 4 ounces Cabot Cheddar (your favorite type) shredded
- 8 large eggs
- 1 tbsp parsley fine chop for garnish
- Sea Salt to taste
- Black Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit
- prep all ingredients
- mix diced potatoes with enough olive oil to lightly coat them then season heavily with black pepper and sea salt. Place the potatoes on a parchment-lined baking sheet and place into a preheated oven for 20 minutes.
- In a Cast Iron or regular frying pan, cook diced bacon and loose chorizo. Chorizo will finish cooking first (about 5 minutes) remove it from the pan and allow excess grease to drain. Continue cooking bacon until semi crisp (3-5 additional minutes). Remove from pan, allowing grease to drain. Remove the remainder of the grease, leaving a tablespoon to sautee the onions and peppers.Set sausage and bacon aside till needed.
- Place the onions and peppers into the heated pan with 1 tablespoon of the grease pulled from the pan. Cook for about 2 minutes.
- When the potatoes are done, remove the baking sheet from the oven. Spread the cooked sausage, bacon, onions and peppers onto the potatoes and gently mix.
- Add shredded Cabot Cheese to the top of the mixture and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
- Place baking sheet back into the oven for 2-3 minutes until the cheese has slightly melted.
- Remove pan from oven and set the oven to broil.
- Carefully take parchment paper by both ends and pour the ingredients into the cast iron skillet (you can use a casserole dish instead).
- Once in the pan, make little wells in the mixture for the eggs. Gently place a whole egg in each well.
- Season the eggs with sea salt and black pepper. Sprinkle chopped parsley over the top of the ingredients for color.
- Place Cast Iron pan under the broiler and allow eggs to cook (about 3-5 minutes). Once the whites have solidified the eggs are done. I like my eggs loose and sunny side up, so I cook them just long enough. Feel free to cook them longer. *You can also use the alternate method of covering the pan and cooking on the stovetop allowing the steam to cook the eggs. Or fry the eggs separately and place them on top of the individual servings of the potato mixture.
- Remove from oven and serve immediately. I served mine with flour tortillas.
Jo
I’m a breakfast person and love hearty breakfast like this. Skillet potatoes are so hard to resist, when flavors are so amazing, I wish to eat it every single day. Delicious!
Claire | The Simple, Sweet Life
This skillet breakfast looks amazing! I can’t wait until the weather cools off so I can get back to baking delicious breakfasts like this one.
kevin thomas
What size cast iron pan would you recommend for this recipe? And thanks for sharing
Chef Dennis Littley
I used a 12 inch cast iron skillet for this dish
Cathleen @ A Taste of Madness
This looks amazing! Although, if I made it at home, I would probably cook the eggs longer. My husband likes his eggs, and I quote “the consistency of shoe leather” …
Kelly Anthony
I love breakfast and everything about this cheesy skillet breakfast. My family will be so excited to eat this this weekend!
Paula Montenegro
Spicy and cheesy, this is a dream skillet breakfast! I love every ingredient in this recipe, especially the cheddar cheese! Thanks for sharing.
Aleta
Oh. My. Goodness. I have not had breakfast yet and unfortunately don’t have potatoes, otherwise this would be on the menu for sure! It looks absolutely delicious, especially with that chorizo! I am a huge breakfast fan, my favourite meal of the day. I am going to make this for my husband this weekend!
Rebecca Blackwell
We have guests coming to stay with us this weekend and I just added this dish to the meal plan. It looks delicious and I just know everyone is going to love it. Thank you!
Nikka Shae
Now this is how you do breakfast! Wow this is a nice spread.
Elaine Benoit
Breakfast has always been my favorite meal! All I can say to this is YUM! The eggs look perfect, the chorizo is fun and the potatoes look glorious! And don’t get me started on the cheese! I can’t wait to try it at my next brunch!
Carrie | Clean Eating Kitchen
Now this is my kind of breakfast! So hearty and filling! I see this in my very near future!
HilLesha
It has been ages since I have made a breakfast skillet, but I think this will be changing sometime soon after reading this post. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Farrah Less
Now this will wakes me up early in the morning if I smell this skillet. I am a breakfast person so this is perfect for me. I would love to make this at home.
shobee
I usually prepare my meals ahead of time, but I had not considered making a breakfast similar as this. This is just too delicious and good looking kind of breakfast. I think I am going to skip the bacon and keep the rest of the ingredients. This will be a filling breakfast that can last me a day.
Monica
This looks amazing!! I really need to step up my breakfast game. My family is sick of cereal. I will be making this for sure!! Everyone loves All that cheesy goodness
Lynndee
We always prefer a breakfast like this…loaded with all the right goodies. 🙂 Saved your recipe. Def going to make this soon.
Kita Roberts
I totally agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day! And what’s more wonderful than having a very delicious breakfast??!! This recipe is really appetizing. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Ruth I
I’d like to have this as my breakfast everyday. It look absolutely good! I love the ingredients you’ve use, they are incredible.
Sue Reddel
We are already huge fans of Cabot Cheese! This recipe looks amazing and I’m sure it tastes yummy too.
Kita Bryant
OMG I’m hungry and it’s late at night. I need to add to my walmart order to get some of this to make for me in the morning bump the kids lol
Pam
I love a good breakfast skillet. And you just can’t go wrong with anything called “cheesy!”
Rebecca Miller
YUM!! This Cheesy Skillet Breakfast would be a definite hit in our household. We are all cheese lovers and Cabot cheese is the best!
Rena
Oh boy! My husband is going to love me for this! We were just talking about this over the weekend. He loves this type of breakfast because he is a mix it all together type of guy. Me I don’t like my food to touch…weird I know! Pinned!
Ice Cream n Sticky Fingers
I’m coming over for breakfast…hehe
This skillet meal looks so good but there is no way that I could make it that pretty. I’d probably throw some ham and veggies on top for a complete meal too.
Tasheena
This recipe looks so yummy and savory. I would love to make this for my family for brunch.
Gloria | Homemade & Yummy
If it has CHEESE, count me in!! This sounds like the perfect recipe for the weekend brunch. Even better, breakfast for dinner…our favourite meal of the week.
robin rue
That sounds like something my husband would love. He is into stuff like this for breakfast.
Amber Myers
I need to try this for breakfast one morning. I know my family will love it. We all adore our cheese 😉
Alli Smith
What a delicious looking skillet breakfast! I’m over here drooling! This is the perfect breakfast to serve to weekend guests.
Amanda
I’m all about the loads of cheesy and those perfectly cooked egg yolks! What a delicious way to start the day. Thanks so much for sharing!
Terri Steffes
I love Cabot cheese. They have the creamiest and meltiest cheese on the market, in my opinion. This breakfast recipe is a winner. My family would love this.
Melissa Chapman
That is a breakfast that will be a great start to your day and you will not get hungry until way past noon. Mexican chorizo sounds like a perfect way to get your protein.