Cheesy Fried Ham Potato Skillet at Home

This Cheesy Fried Ham Potato Skillet is unfussy and deliciously comforting. Serve this potato, crispy ham and pepper hash with a fried egg on top!

Worth keeping nothing more than a good skillet breakfast. One skillet filled with all things breakfasty.

I save these sort of recipes for when everyone is home, otherwise I’d only eat all the evidence and suffer with guilt in silence. On Sunday’s I usually go in all-out breakfast-making-mode and pull out all the stops. Breakfast skillets are only so darn straightforward yet look and taste like you’ve spent hours preparing it.

I made this truly simple breakfast skillet only this past weekend.

And I called dibs on staying home while Pat took Haileigh to her softball practice. I knew I had a sliver of time to whip up something so that when they walked into the house they were hit with the fireside aroma of breakfast, and because I’d knew they’d be hungry.

They walk in, I plop it down in the center of the table and we go at it like vultures with spoons. I prefer mine piled onto my plate and then I top it with a crispy-edged, runny-yolked, fried egg. Pat and Malloree like to cut everything up, mix it around to coat in the silky egg yolk, then they scoop it onto buttered toast, fold it in half and eat it like a sandwich. To each their own and all that, I guess.

To cook this Cheesy Fried Ham Potato Skillet Gather:

• bacon fat
• ham (hickory or applewood smoked)
• red onion
• green pepper
• garlic
• thyme
• 8 leftover redskin potatoes (previously roasted)
• extra sharp white cheddar cheese

Breakfast skillets are great for using leftover ingredients from previous meals.

First things first, reached into your fridge for the jar-o-bacon fat. This is actually one of two jars I keep on hand… I do love my bacon fat.

Preheat a large oven-safe skillet on medium heat. Scoop out a tablespoon of bacon fat, slap it into a pan.

Once hot, add in 1 heaping cup of chopped ham. This is hickory-smoked but applewood would work simply fine too.

Fry the ham in the bacon fat, stirring occasionally, until the edges brown and the ham gets all crispy.

Transfer the fried ham out of the pan (with a slotted spoon) and into a dish, then set it off to the side.

Drop in the 1/2 cup of diced red onion. If the pan is pretty dry after frying the ham, you can add in a little more bacon fat.

With the red onion, add the 1/3 cup of green pepper.

Season with a pinch or two of salt and a few grinds of black pepper, then stir to coat the veggies in the bacon fat.

Cook 4 to 5 minutes until the edges start to brown a bit.

Then add in a clove of minced garlic…

Leaves from two small thyme sprigs…

Give that a stir and then add in the chunks of potato…

…and crispy ham.

Carefully toss it all together until the potatoes are heated through. Then give the pan a little shake to settle it all into an even layer.

Top with 1 heaping cup of grated sharp white cheddar.

Slide the whole think into your oven, on the highest rack and right under the broiler. Broil until the cheese melts and starts to bubble and brown.

Can we now simply take a moment and appreciate the beauty that is this skillet??

Amen.

Have mercy!

Okay obviously I take way to many pictures. But that runny yolk…

Enjoy! And if you give this Fried Ham Potato Skillet recipe a try, let me know! Snap a photo and tag me on twitter or instagram!