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Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Bacon and Eggs

An easy meal for any time! It is important to use large sweet potatoes and small eggs or the eggs won't fit!

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Keyword easy breakfast recipe, easy brunch recipe, easy lunch recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Author Linda Spiker

Ingredients

  • 2 large sweet potatoes
  • butter or ghee
  • sea salt
  • 4 slices bacon, cooked and chopped
  • 4 small eggs
  • freshly ground pepper
  • chives

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. Place foil in bottom of oven to catch potato drippings.
  3. Pierce potatoes with a fork.
  4. Use a paper towel to LIGHTLY coat skin of each potato with butter or olive oil.
  5. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  6. Place potatoes on oven rack and bake for 50-60 minutes or until a fork goes in easily.
  7. While potatoes bake, cook bacon, set on paper towels to drain, chop.
  8. Slice chives.
  9. Remove potatoes from oven and place on a parchment paper covered cookie sheet.
  10. Carefully cut in half lengthwise. Use your knife to make slits in the center of each half.
  11. Add as much butter/ghee as you like and mash with a fork. Use the back of a spoon to create a crater in each potato, sprinkle with half of the bacon.
  12. Gently crack an egg into each potato half.
  13. Place back in the oven for 10 minutes. Whites should be solid, yolks soft.
  14. Remove from oven. Sprinkle with sea salt, pepper, the rest of the bacon and chives. Serve.