These Cheesy Bacon Home Fries are made with leftover potatoes, bacon, cheese, and onions for a crispy and smoky side dish recipe. These can be served for breakfast or dinner and are excellent with a soft fried egg on top.
❤️ Why you'll love it
Uses leftover potatoes: this recipe is a great way to use any leftover baked potatoes you have on hand.
Crispy bits: the fried crispy bits of potato and bread are irresistibly delicious!
Incredible flavors: the combination of fried potatoes, bread, cheese and smoky bacon come together to make a delicious side dish.
🥘 Ingredients
Baked potatoes (skin on): try making air fryer baked potatoes a day ahead just to make this recipe!
Onion: I used a white onion, but any onion will work in this recipe.
Bread: preferably the heels of a loaf of brioche bread as the crust on the heel makes the bread sturdier. Bread bulks up the recipe and adds crispy fried bits!
Fat-free cheddar cheese: I like to use fat-free or reduced fat cheese since I am using bacon in this recipe.
Bacon crumbled
Bacon drippings: reserved from cooking bacon, this adds more flavor to the home fries.
🔪 Instructions
- In a large skillet over medium heat, cook until golden brown and crispy. Remove from pan and set aside on a paper towel lined plate to cool.
- Remove all but 1 tablespoon bacon fat from pan.
- Add onion to bacon fat and cook over medium heat, 1-2 minutes, until onions begin to turn translucent.
- Add butter to onion and let melt and bubble. Place potatoes and bread pieces in skillet with butter and onions. Toss to coat with butter.
- Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Turn heat down to low.
- Sprinkle cheddar cheese over top of potatoes. Top with crumbled bacon and Sprinkle with chives.
- Serve with salt and pepper to taste.
🥄 Equipment
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge up to 5 days.
Reheat: to reheat, place leftover home fries in a large skillet, heat until warmed through or heat on a microwave safe plate in the microwave until warm.
📖 Variations
- Substitute butter for the bacon fat.
- Use turkey bacon instead of pork.
- Sprinkle the top of the home fries with fresh snipped chives and sour cream.
💭 Tips
- When cooking the home fries, allow the skillet to set for 4-5 minutes before stirring, until potatoes have begun to brown. Stirring less often will create crispier potatoes.
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🍽 Serve with..
Serve cheesy bacon home fries with a soft fried egg and buttered toast.
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📖 Recipe
Cheesy Bacon Home Fries
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Ingredients
Instructions
- Cook bacon in hot skillet until crisp. Remove from pan and set aside to cool.
- Remove all but 1 tablespoon bacon fat from pan.
- Add onion to bacon fat and cook over medium heat, 1-2 minutes, until they begin to turn translucent.
- Add butter to onion and let melt and bubble. Place potatoes and bread pieces in skillet with butter and onions. Toss to coat with butter.
- Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, tossing occasionally.
- Turn heat down to low.
- Sprinkle cheddar cheese over top of potatoes. Top with crumbled bacon.
- Sprinkle with chives.
- Serve with salt and pepper to taste.
Claudia Lamascolo says
What a bonus having cheese in these wow great idea!