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Sweet Potato Hash with Spinach and Sausage

Sweet potato hash with sausage and spinach is the perfect recipe for an easy and healthy breakfast or dinner. | Paleo, gluten-free, and Whole 30-friendly. 

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  • 3 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil, divided
  • 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 12 ounces loose sausage (breakfast, Italian, or chorizo)
  • 1 small onion, finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced or put through a garlic press
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground sage, see note
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 11 ounces baby spinach
  • 4 large eggs, optional

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Toss sweet potatoes cubes together with 2 teaspoons oil and salt on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast until golden brown and fork-tender, about 30 minutes. About halfway through roasting, remove pan from the oven and stir the potatoes with a metal spatula. This helps them brown evenly. 

  2. When the potatoes are ready. Turn off the oven. In a Dutch oven, heat remaining oil over high heat. Add the sausage, cook, breaking up the sausage with a potato masher or fork, as it cooks. Add the onions, garlic, sage (if using), and black pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, until the onions are soft, about two minutes. 

  3. Add the spinach. Stir constantly until the spinach wilts, about one minute. Add the cooked potatoes, stir to combine. 

  4. If serving with eggs, slide four eggs right onto the surface of the hash. Reduce heat to low. Cover the Dutch oven and cook for four minutes or until egg is done to your likening. Serve with salt and pepper--and a little hot sauce, of you like.

Recipe Notes

Recipe Note: Sage

Use ground sage with plain or maple breakfast sausage. Omit if using sage-flavored sausage or Italian sausage or chorizo. 

Variation: Sweet Potato Hash with Spinach, Sausage, and Apples

Add one small, peeled and diced apple (a crisp apple, like granny smith works best) to the recipe along with the onions and garlic. Cook as directed. 

Variation: Sweet Potato Hash with Spinach, Sausage, and Maple

Add 2 tablespoons maple syrup to the recipe after you've cooked the onions and garlic. This variation works especially well with the apple variation.