Easy and Healthy Sweet Potato Breakfast Skillet Recipe (2024)

This healthy sweet potato breakfast skillet is perfect for getting tons of vitamins, minerals, good fats, and protein, all packed into a simple meal. It’s great for breakfast, lunch, or dinner! (Post and recipe notes updated 1/13/2018).Having three little bodies running in my house often leads to cold cereal and yogurt as our morning breakfast. Although not bad, gets a little boring, and a little pricey. Those tiny bodies can pound a box a day.

So at least a few times a week I try to make pancakes, eggs, muffins, oatmeal, etc. This sweet potato breakfast skillet is a perfect lazy weekend, “please don’t make me fat” breakfast. Use the orange variety or the yellow – they are both excellent!

On top of just being a light but filling meal, this recipe is a great way to get in a ton of essential vitamins, fats, and protein as well! It’s awesome that something so simple can pack in so much nutritional goodness. If I haven’t convinced you, see below.

I’m not gonna lie, I don’t usually choose my foods because of the super-high health benefits. I choose them because they taste good, and then I eat a wide variety of food and eat in moderation. It’s worked for me. So it’s always a win-win when I have a food that I totally love eating, AND it has extremely awesome health benefits as well. Woohoo!

Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes:

Sweet potatoes (especially those of the orange variety which contain higher levels of beta-carotene) are EXTREMELY HIGH in Vitamin A. Vitamin A is a powerful antioxidant that helps reduce inflammation. It is also good for promoting healthy vision, healthy neurological function, and healthy skin.

Just to clarify, sweet potatoes are also often called “Yams” in the U.S. in grocery stores. We’ll go into the real history of yams another time, but just know, in the U.S., yams/sweet potatoes are pretty much interchangeable terms.

Health Benefits of Avocados:

Avocados are full of vitamins and nutrients. They also contain a substantial amount of healthy monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) which can aid in absorption of fat-soluable vitamins and minerals, skin health, and even a boost to the immune system. They’re been shown to promote a healthy heart, and are actually a great aid for digestion, being very high in fiber.

Health Benefits of Eggs:

Eggs are an inexpensive way to pack in some protein! Almost half of the protein is actually found in the white. They are regarded as a complete source of protein as they contain all nine essential amino acids (the ones that we must obtain from our diet).

Although there used to be a concern about eggs raising cholesterol levels, that myth has been debunked. There are vitamins and minerals which promote heart health , and have a high level of Vitamin D to help combat diseases such as osteoporosis.

If I haven’t convinced you yet, or you don’t really care about the healthiness factor, well try it anyway because it JUST TASTES AMAZING!

The husband was skeptical at first, but once he took a bite he loved it. Only problem he said, was that he wished there was more. I think that’s a good problem to have!

This is a recipe that is really hard to mess up, but we do have a couple of tips to help it shine just a little more!

When baking the sweet potatoes for the first portion, don’t overcrowd the skillet, or bake the sweet potatoes on a separate baking sheet (we love this Gold Touch Baking Sheet from Williams-Sonoma. No kidding, it’s kind of life-changing and worth the price tag!). Sweet potatoes have a high moisture content. If you overcrowd the pan, they can get a little soggy. They still taste great, but won’t have that nice toasty crunchy exterior.

You can use any oven-safe pan to make this dish, but we absolutely love using a cast-iron skillet. It holds the heat well, and provides nice even heating. And it just has a great presentation!