Mashed Potatoes and Eggs Breakfast Ramekins

Mashed potatoes and eggs with crumbled bacon and Hollandaise Sauce. These individual breakfast breakfast ramekins are a great way to feed a crowd.

Looking for left over mashed potatoes recipes? If you’re like me, I love mashed potatoes so much that I always seem to make too many. Too many = left over mashed potatoes. Hence, I’m always looking for ideas or recipes so they don’t go to waste.

This recipe makes me want to make too many mashed potatoes every single week, just so I can have this ramekin breakfast every Sunday.

Fun and delicious these breakfast ramekins with poached eggs and hollandaise are sunshin-ey delightful.

Mashed Potatoes and Eggs make a wonderful breakfast.

An Easy Way To Feed A Breakfast Crowd

My time spent at Culinary School was divided between three different kitchen stations. Pastry Kitchen, Garmo and Hot Line.

While in Hot Line, each morning our team was assigned the task of preparing breakfast for the entire class. The entire class numbering 25.

One morning teammate Nathan announced he was going to teach us a breakfast recipe that was traditional from is home in Chicago.

These mashed potatoes and eggs breakfast ramekins were an easy way to feed the group and needless to say, the whole class gave breakfast a big thumbs up.  I’ve been wanting to recreate it in my own kitchen, and of course it was just as good as I had remembered.

This idea is so much easier than any other breakfast ramekin idea I’ve run across. There’s no baking involved and those leftover potatoes get some grand company with bacon and a poached egg. Don’t forget the hollandaise sauce.

Step by Step Instructions

Heating leftover mashed potatoes in the microwave makes this an easy fix. Let’s take a look.

• Step 1: Line up ramekins and place a scoop of hot mashed potatoes in each.
• Step 2: Top each with crumbled cooked bacon.

• Step 3: Add a poached egg to each ramekin.
• Step 4: Top with a drizzle of Hollandaise Sauce.

Tips For Success

Being organized will help this process go much smoother.

• Start by cooking sliced bacon until crispy. Break into pieces, set aside.
• Prepare Hollandaise Sauce and set aside and keep warm.
• Heat the left over mashed potatoes in the microwave. This works best by setting the microwave to 50% power. The cooking time obviously depends on how many left over mashed potatoes you are reheating. Heat in 30 – 60 increments until the potatoes are nice and steamy. Leave them sit in the microwave, covered to keep them warm.
• Next, poach your eggs.
• Then Line up your ramekins.
• Add a big heaping tablespoon of the hot mashed potatoes to the bottom of each ramekin.
• Top with bacon pieces.
• Top with a poached egg.
• Top with Hollandaise sauce and serve immediately.

The next layer is your beautiful poached egg. Need help with poaching? Take a look at instructions in my How To Poach Eggs Like A Professional Chef.

Variations

This recipe isn’t limited to Hollandaise Sauce. Have some fun. You can also make a quick cheese sauce.

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons flour.
• 1 cup milk.
• 1 1/2 cups shredded cheese of your choice.

Melt butter in a sauce pan, add flour and stir, cook 1 minute. Add 1 cup milk and 1 1/2 cups shredded cheese. Stir and cook over medium heat until melted and thickened. Done!

Stab at that beautiful egg and let the yolk spread over the contents of that ramekin.

Grab a fork and dig in!

Mashed Potatoes and Eggs

Of course plain good old fashioned mashed potatoes are what this recipe was designed for. But any one of my other mashed potato creations, will work beautifully for this recipe.

• Spicy Mashed Potatoes: These mashed potatoes with cheese and salsa are used to stuff into a poblano pepper. Have leftovers? use these spicy potatoes for these breakfast ramekins.
• Poblano Chive Mashed Potatoes, Turn these breakfast ramekins into a Mexican themed breakfast. Substitute the Hollandaise sauce for the cheese sauce I’ve outlined above. Substitute crumbled chorizo for the bacon.
• Make Ahead Mashed Potato Casserole: With sour cream and chives, they’re a perfect candidate for this left-over mashed potatoes for breakfast.

Next time you have left over mashed potatoes and want them for breakfast, I hope you give this recipe a try. And if you do, please come back and give the recipe a star rating, and leave a comment about your experience with the recipe.

And if you have a favorite way to use up mashed potatoes, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.

Mashed Potatoes and Eggs Breakfast Ramekins … It’s What’s For Breakfast