Breakfast Skillet Recipe
This loaded breakfast skillet will fill you up, and keep you full almost all day (great for busy days on the farm). Composed of sausage, bacon, eggs, potatoes, and cheese, there is plenty of protein in this delicious breakfast for those hard working muscles.
Cowboy Breakfast Skillet
This easy cowboy breakfast skillet recipe is great for a hearty breakfast for the whole family, and can easily be modified to feed more people (especially if you have overnight guests). Feel free to add more potatoes, eggs, and cheese to expand the recipe to fit 1 – 2 more people. If you need to feed 5 or more people, I would double the recipe. This recipe is great for leftovers. Nothing gets me through my workday better than a big farmer’s breakfast skillet for lunch (as I don’t normally eat breakfast during the work week). This recipe is also great for breakfast burritos. Add some tortillas, cheese, salsa, cilantro, and sour cream, and you can change up the flavor a bit. (Making this recipe as breakfast burritos, is another way to stretch the breakfast casserole to feed more people.)
Cast Iron Recipes: Breakfast Casserole (with Bacon and Potatoes)
While this can be a one pan breakfast, I find it easier to cook the bacon on a cookie sheet in the oven at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes (or longer for crispy bacon). While the bacon is cooking in the oven, the meat lovers skillet can be cooked on the stove in the cast iron pot (learn more about the health benefits of cooking with cast iron). The bacon will finish about the same time as the cowboy breakfast skillet, and can be diced and added to the breakfast skillet scramble near the end of cooking. The bacon grease is not needed for the recipe, however it can be used later to season your cast iron skillets (Amazon affiliate link). While this method is technically a two pan method, I find the ease of cooking bacon this way well worth the use of an additional pan!
Country Breakfast Skillet Recipe Ingredients:
- Sausage – While Jimmy Dean makes a great breakfast sausage, we cook venison breakfast sausage with a similar blend of spices (Venison Sausage Recipe Link). Wild game venison has a lower ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids than pork or beef, which lowers risk factors of developing chronic inflammatory disorders like arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, COPD, allergies, and psoriasis.
- Bacon – The lazy way to cook bacon is in the oven. We haven’t tried to make deer bacon yet, but it is on the list! For now, we indulge in typical store bought bacon.
- Eggs – Farm fresh free range eggs are found to have higher levels of magnesium and beta-carotene (which is converted to vitamin A) levels than in store-bought eggs from caged hens (and inhumanely kept).
- Diced or Cubed Potatoes – One of the easiest vegetables to grow yourself, and can be stored for several months! Avoid the top 10 pesticides on potatoes like Aldicarb sulfate, azoxystroin, boscalid, chlorpropham, clothinanidin, flutolanil, imidacloprid, phenylphenol, thiabendazole, and thiamethoxam by eating your own fresh potatoes. (Check out this potato grow bag, Amazon affiliate link.) For extra veggies, add some green peppers, onions, and red bell peppers to make potatoes o’brien.
- Cheese – Full of vitamins like A, B6, B12, D, and K, calcium, iodine, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, and zinc.
- Garlic – To season the potatoes
- Onion – To season the potatoes
- Salt & Pepper – To season the potatoes.
How to Make a Loaded Breakfast Skillet
- Defrost bacon and sausage, and preheat oven for bacon.
- Lay bacon out on cookie sheet (make sure there are sides to the cookie sheet to hold the grease), and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 15-25 minutes.
- Over medium heat, cook sausage in cast iron so that it will be crumbled when finished.
- Once crumbled sausage is cooked, add diced potatoes. For crispy potatoes (American Fries or hash browns), pop them in the air fryer and season first.
- When potatoes are cooked, lower the heat and add beaten eggs mix.
- Lastly, add cheese and enjoy!
Breakfast Skillet
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound bacon
- 1 pound sausage
- 3-5 cups diced potatoes
- 6 large eggs
- 1 cup shredded cheese
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven while bacon and sausage defrosts
- Lay bacon out on a cookie sheet, and bake at 350° for 15-25 minutes (depending on thickness and desired crispiness)1 pound bacon
- Cook sausage in covered skillet over medium heat, chopping into crumbles1 pound sausage
- Cook diced potatoes in air fryer with seasoning (400℉ for 15 minutes). Or, once the sausage is cooked, you can season the potatoes and then add them to the casserole.3-5 cups diced potatoes, ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon onion powder, ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- While potatoes are cooking, beat eggs in separate bowl6 large eggs
- Once potatoes are cooked, add beaten eggs and cheese6 large eggs, 1 cup shredded cheese
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
Our Other Venison Recipes:
I substituted seasoned American fries for diced potatoes, and cooked them in the air fryer prior to adding to the skillet. Delicious!