Savory Air Fryer Sweet Potato Hash with Yukon Gold Potatoes

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Air Fryer Sweet Potato Hash with Yukon Gold Potatoes is loaded with both sweet potato cubes and Yukon Gold white potatoes. Seasoned with Cajun spices, fresh herbs, fresh jalapeno peppers, garlic cloves, and sweet yellow onion. Perfectly air-fried for a crispy outside and tender centers for a quick and easy breakfast or speedy lunch. Top with one or two fried or poached eggs for a fast and nutritious meal the whole family will enjoy.

Why You’ll Love Air Fryer Spicy Sweet Potato Hash

Healthy and Diet Friendly: Using an air fryer allows you to use a lot less oil than making potato hash in a skillet. This dish is Weight Watchers, Whole 30, and Mediterranean Diet-friendly. It’s also totally vegan and gluten-free. 

Quick and Easy: Using an air fryer for this dish is not only a healthier cooking process, but it’s faster with easier cleanup. Before I had an air fryer, I would make this dish in a cast iron skillet with twice as much oil or butter. With the air fryer, the basket is much easier to clean, and you don’t have to stir the mixture constantly to avoid burning. 

Many Ways to Serve: Not only does sweet potato hash make an incredible breakfast, but it’s also a nutritious side dish that pairs well with chicken breasts, grilled steak, and salmon. This sweet potato hash recipe can also be made into a sweet potato salad with a 1/3 cup of mayonnaise served cold.  Or use it in a tossed salad with a delicious salad dressing like this Homemade Jalapeno Ranch Dressing.

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Benefits of Using an Air Fryer

• You use a lot less oil! Just a spray or two of spray cooking oil will be enough for most recipes.
• Since you use a lot less oil with the Air Fryer the calorie and fat content will be greatly reduced. 
• For me, the Air Fryer takes less time to cook most recipes. It’s much smaller than a regular oven so the heat is more concentrated and intense.
• With an Air Fryer, there isn’t any residual heat. It heats up fast and cools faster than a regular oven.
• Perfect for any size household.
• If you have kids…it is a must. Frozen anything snacks can be made faster, crispier, healthier, and easier than using the oven! Seriously!!

What You’ll Need for Sweet Potato Hash

Simple Ingredients

• Sweet Potatoes and Yukon Gold Potatoes: This recipe uses both sweet potatoes and white potatoes. Using both for the potato mixture makes this dish so beautiful plus being healthy.
• Onions and Garlic: Any kind of onion will work. Red onion, white onion, yellow onion, green onions, or leeks. finely minced or crushed, fresh garlic is best..
• Jalapenos:  Jalapenos and garlic are delicious with sweet potato chunks, a few white potato cubes, and savory spices. Green peppers like bell peppers or a mild fresh green chill can be substituted for the jalapeno.
• Fresh Rosemary and Thyme: If you can’t find these herbs fresh then use a teaspoon of dried for both.  Note: these herbs can easily be grown in your Back Yard Garden or in a nice patio pot year-round.
• Seasoning: Garlic Salt or regular salt, pepper, Cajun Seasonings (optional). A chili powder, cumin, and garlic powder mix can be substituted for a Tex-Mex flavor.

• 1 large sweet potato and 2 medium Yukon gold potatoes
• 1/2 sweet yellow onion
• 2 jalapenos
• 3 garlic cloves
• 2 Rosemary & Thyme Sprigs
• 2 tsp olive oil
• spray cooking oil
• 1 tsp Cajun seasoning, more or less to taste
• salt & pepper to taste

How to Air Fryer Sweet Potato Hash

• Step 1: Chop a large, sweet potato into cubes and a few white potatoes into medium-large chunks. Dice the onions and peppers into small to medium pieces.  Mince or crush the garlic. Place all of these in a large bowl. Note: Larger pieces take longer to cook.
• Step 2: Stir about 2 tsp of olive oil throughout the vegetables.
• Step 3: Season with spices and mix again.
• Step 4: Preheat air fryer to 390 degrees.
• Step 5: In the preheated air fryer, place the potato mixture in the Air-Fryer basket and air fry at 390 degrees for 10 minutes. 
• Step 6: Take the air fryer basket out and add snipped fresh rosemary and thyme. Stir or shake the basket to mix and cook for another 6-8 minutes or until the potato edges are crispy and insides are soft. 
• Serve: Place in individual bowls and serve.

Sweet Potato Hash Toppers and Add-ons

The great thing about making something so simple and delicious is it is easy, easy, easy to bump it up a knotch. Below are a few simple additions to make good hash great!

• Add a fried egg as a topper and you have something wonderful.
• Mix up with leftovers. Savory Drip Beef leftovers would make a wonderful weekday meal.
• Add some canned salmon, tuna, or chicken. You will be full and satisfied all day long!
• Cook bacon, turkey bacon, or sausage and incorporate it into the cooked hash.
• Use other veggies like celery, bell peppers, cabbage, or Brussels sprouts in addition to jalapenos and onions.
• And last but not least…shredded Corned Beef for the ultimate in feast eating. Serve it with an egg on top.

Sweet Potato Hash FAQ and Tips

Q: Can you make sweet potato hash in a skillet or oven?

A: Yes, definitely! The skillet method will take longer and need more oil, but the dish will be delicious. Baking these in the oven will take twice as long as an air-fryer but the oil ratio to potatoes will be the same.

Q: Do I need to soak the sweet potatoes before I cook them?

A. This process removes excess starch from the potatoes. If you do soak them, dry the potatoes really well before you air fry or bake. Otherwise, they will turn out hard and not crispy.

Q: Can sweet potatoes be substituted for russet potatoes?

A: Yes! The cooking time will probably be less. 

How To Store This Recipe

Store all leftover in an airtight container for up to 2 days.

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Air Fryer Sweet Potato Hash with Yukon Gold Potatoes

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Air fryer sweet potato hash with a fried egg on top in a white bowl.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, Side Dish

Cuisine American

Servings 4

Calories 175 kcal

Equipment

• Air Fryer

Ingredients

  

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• 1 large sweet potatoes or 3 medium
• 3 Yukon gold potatoes
• 1/2 sweet yellow onion
• 2 jalapenos
• 3 garlic cloves
• 2 Rosemary & Thyme Sprigs
• 2 tsp olive oil
• spray oil
• 1 tsp Cajun seasoning
• salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

 

• Chop and dice potatoes to your desired size. Note: Larger pieces will take longer to cook.
• Chop jalapenos, onion, and garlic.
• Place all veggies in a medium sized bowl. Drizzle olive oil on top and then spray with spray oil. Mix.
• Add seasonings and a few more squirts of spray oil.
• Place above ingredients in the Air Fryer basket and set to 390° for 10 minutes.
• After it's cooked 10 minutes, add snipped fresh Rosemary and Thyme to veggies, spray with a few more squirts of spray oil and then stir. Return to Air Fryer for another 10 minutes or until desired crispiness is reached.
• Enjoy!!

Nutrition

Calories: 175kcalCarbohydrates: 27gProtein: 3gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0.3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 12mgPotassium: 624mgFiber: 4gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 325IUVitamin C: 36mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 1mg

Keyword 0 weight watchers, air fryer, breakfast, comfort food, easy, healthy

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