This post may contain affiliate links, please see our privacy policy + disclosures for details.
This all-in-one sheet pan breakfast features a legendary Baked Home Fries Recipe accompanied by tasty sausages and sunny eggs! This easy, one-pan breakfast is ready to eat in less than an hour, and will be a favorite with your family on a weekday or weekend.
Love cozy Southern breakfasts? Try these reader-favorite recipes for Smoky Breakfast Pizza Recipe with Perfect Sunny Egg and Cornmeal Biscuits with Country Sausage and Watermelon Rind Preserves.
Quick Look: Home Fries with Sausages and Eggs Recipe
- ⏲️ Prep Time: 10 minutes
- ⏲️ Cook Time: 40 minutes
- ⏲️ Total Time: 50 minutes
- 👨👩👧👦 Servings: 4 servings
- 🌽 Cuisine & Heritage: Classic American
- 🍽️ Calories: 426 calories per serving (more nutritional info in recipe card)
- 🥦 Dietary Info:
- 🟢 Difficulty: Easy
- 🔥 Cooking Method: Oven Baked
- 🌶️ Flavor Profile: These crispy baked home fries go perfectly with the buttery toast and jammy sunny-side-up eggs.
- 🔑 Top Tip: Line the baking sheet with aluminum foil to make cleanup easy.
- 🍷 Drink Pairings: Enjoy with a hot cup of coffee or a glass of orange juice.
- ❄️ Storage: These home fries, toast, and eggs taste the best when they’re made fresh. I recommend prepping the potatoes in advance by peeling, cutting, and submerging in water in the fridge overnight, then draining and patting dry the next day.
Summarize or share this post:
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy, One Pan Method: This easy breakfast can be prepped in just 10 minutes, and is ready to eat in less than 1 hour! You’ll love that it’s made all on one pan too.
- Perfect Crispy Potatoes Every Time: Baking the potatoes with the right amount of oil on a hot cookie sheet for a long enough time ensures beautiful crispy potatoes every time.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“The fries are crispy on the outside just the way I like them. And the sausages and sunny eggs make it a complete hearty meal. Such an easy and delicious recipe!”
Table of Contents
- Quick Look: Home Fries with Sausages and Eggs Recipe
- Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- My Favorite Easy Breakfast
- Ingredients
- Variations
- How to Make Home Fries with Sausages and Eggs
- Recipe FAQs
- Serving Suggestions
- Expert Tips
- Other Southern Breakfast Recipes You’ll Love
- Oven Baked Home Fries with Sausages and Sunny Eggs Recipe
My Favorite Easy Breakfast
The moment I laid eyes on these gorgeous oven fries, hot from the oven and glistening with olive oil, I knew the recipe was absolutely for me!
Our friends at America’s Test Kitchen consistently come up with new and clever ways to prep meals. Given breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, this one-pan cooking method caught my attention. Anybody can turn cut potatoes into ‘oven magic’, but this method shows you how to cook a whole breakfast on a sheet pan in the oven.
Ingredients
Curious what ingredients you need to make this easy, one-pan breakfast? Grab these key ingredients, along with a few others, and you’ll be ready to start cooking!
- Potatoes: I love using Yukon Gold potatoes, since they have thin skin and have a fluffy interior when cooked.
- Breakfast Link Sausages: Use your favorite breakfast sausages for this recipe. Smaller links will cook faster.
- Country Bread: Use thickly sliced bread for this recipe; it will ensure a soft, fluffy interior for the toast.
- Unsalted Butter: You’ll need plenty of butter to get crispy toast! Be sure to use softened butter, as it’s much easier to spread.
- Eggs: You can either cook the eggs on the baking sheet for a sunny-side-up result, or scramble them if you don’t like runny yolks.
See recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
Variations
- Consider adding peppers or onions—or both! Red bell pepper chunks or sweet onions roasted right along with the potatoes would be fabulous. Toss them in a teaspoon of oil, and add at the same time you add the sausages.
- Want to use different potatoes? I like Yukons because of their buttery flavor, but Russets or sweet potatoes would work well also. You’ll need to shorten the cooking time if you’re using sweet potatoes, as they cook quickly.
- Want to add spice? Add ground or crushed red pepper, chili powder, or onion powder. If you have another favorite seasoning you’d prefer to try, just proceed in moderation if it contains salt. Remember, the sausages contain salt!
- Not a fan of sunny eggs? Lightly beat the eggs, then pour them into each hole. They do not come out as pretty, but they still taste amazing! You can also scramble the eggs in a skillet and load a heaping spoonful into each hole at the time you plate everything up.
How to Make Home Fries with Sausages and Eggs
Scroll down for the full printable recipe or stick around for the step-by-step breakdown with photos to walk you through every delicious detail.
1
Prep the Potatoes
Grease the pan, then scrub and cut the potatoes into 1-inch chunks. Toss the potatoes with olive oil, Kosher salt, and black pepper until they’re well combined. Be careful not to over season with salt, as the sausage contain salt!
2
Cooking the Potatoes & Sausages
Spread the potatoes on a greased baking sheet in an even layer. Bake 20 minutes, then stir the potatoes. Add the sausage on top of the potatoes and bake for another 12 minutes.
3
Prep the Bread
Meanwhile, butter each slice of bread. Use a cookie cutter to cut a shape out of the center of each piece of bread, then set aside.
4
Prep the Bread
Remove the baking sheet from the oven. Give the potatoes and the sausages a good flip and push all to one half the baking sheet.
Place each slice of bread along with the cutouts on the hot baking sheet and place it back into the hot oven for about 4 minutes. You want to toast the buttered side of the bread on the hot baking sheet. I peek at mine after 2 minutes by using a fork to lift the edges just so I am sure I’m not over toasting.
Remove the baking sheet from the oven again. Flip the toasts over and add the remaining tablespoon of butter to the baking sheet to melt. Use a pastry brush to push it around if you need to.
5
Bake the Eggs & Enjoy
Carefully crack an egg and shimmy it into a toast hole. Repeat with the remaining eggs and toasts. Place the baking sheet back into the oven for the eggs to set, about 4 to 6 minutes. Your eggs may take extra time or less time; you want the whites perfectly set and the yolks just slightly hazed over.
Remove the baking sheet and plate up! Ensure each plate gets ample crispy home fries, sausages, and for each egg-in-a-hole, its popped out toasty middle for dipping into the yolks. Serve and enjoy!
Recipe FAQs
For the best oven-baked home fries, think simple but intentional. Cut your potatoes evenly, toss them with just enough oil to coat (not drown!), and season generously with salt, pepper, and a little paprika for color. Spread them in a single layer on a hot baking sheet and roast until crisped and brown, flipping halfway through. A squeeze of lemon or sprinkle of fresh herbs at the end makes them taste extra bright and restaurant-worthy.
I roast my home fries at 475°F; it’s the perfect temperature for getting that golden, crispy outside while keeping the inside fluffy and soft. The key is to preheat your pan right along with the oven so when those potatoes hit the surface, they sizzle instantly and start crisping right away.
Yes, you can prep the potatoes in advance–but don’t cook them in advance! Cut the potatoes the night before. Place them into a clean dry bowl and fill the bowl with ice water. Place into your refrigerator until you are ready to prepare. Simply drain the potatoes and spill them out onto paper toweling to pat them dry very, very well. Then, cook the recipe as written.
Serving Suggestions
Growing up, my Mom would make awesome crispy breakfast potatoes for dinner alongside whatever we were having. I still make them sometimes, and serve them as she did alongside a Turkey Cranberry Sandwich or a bulked-up French Dip sandwich. They made a delicious side dish along with breakfast favorites, like Best Southern Ham Gravy with Cheesy Biscuits and Eggs.
Expert Tips
- For the best and crispiest baked fries, cook them long enough to achieve the correct doneness. If using russets or sweet potatoes, the cooking time will vary. High heat and a longer bake time is the secret to a crispy outside and buttery, soft interior.
- A mere tablespoon is enough oil to grease the pan. This isn’t a deep fry, so a little bit less oil will yield a crispier fry. If you prefer to use canola oil or vegetable oil, by all means.
- Don’t line the baking sheet with parchment or aluminum foil! In this method, the third secret to crispy-on-the-outside home fries is direct contact with a screaming hot baking sheet. Hot pan equals crispier fries!
- Test the potatoes for doneness using a steak knife. If the potato easily slides off the knife tip when jabbed, they’re done.
- I used a heart-shaped cookie cutter to press out the centers of the bread, but use any 2-inch cutter you’d like. A drinking glass from your cupboard works, too!
Other Southern Breakfast Recipes You’ll Love
If you liked this recipe and found it helpful, give it some love by sharing!
Follow me on Pinterest and Flipboard for more crave-worthy recipes!
The pleasure of a 5-star review would be greatly appreciated!
Oven Baked Home Fries with Sausages and Sunny Eggs
Equipment
- 2-inch diameter cookie or biscuit cutter
Ingredients
- 4 large Yukon Gold potatoes, cut into 1-inch chunks
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 12 links breakfast sausage
- 4 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided; softened to room temperature
- 4 slices hearty country bread, such as a thickly sliced potato bread
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 475°F and place the rack in the middle position.
- Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil onto a baking sheet. Use your fingers or a pastry brush to spread it evenly across the sheet.
- Add the cut potatoes to a large bowl and add the remaining tablespoon of olive oil, ½ teaspoon Kosher salt, and ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper. Toss to coat potatoes well.
- Spread the potatoes onto the prepared baking sheet in an even layer. Place the baking sheet into the preheated oven and bake 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, turn the potatoes and add the raw sausages atop and in between the potatoes. Place back into the oven for 12 minutes.
- While the potatoes and sausages are cooking, use 2 tablespoons of the unsalted butter to butter each slice of bread. Make sure to spread the butter over the entire surface of the bread. Use your cookie or biscuit cutter and position it directly in the middle of each slice, using a gentle touch to pop out the centers. Set all aside.
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven. Give the potatoes and the sausages a good flip and push all to one half the baking sheet. Place each slice of bread and its middle, buttered side down, onto the baking sheet and return to oven for about 4 minutes.
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven again. Flip the toasts over and add the remaining tablespoon of butter to the baking sheet to melt. Use a pastry brush to push it around if you need to.
- Crack an egg and shimmy it into a bread hole. Repeat with remaining eggs and slices of bread. Place the baking sheet back into the oven for the eggs to set, about 4 to 6 minutes. Whites will be slightly jiggly but set, yolks creamy and slightly runny. Oven times will vary.
- To assemble, ensure each plate gets ample crispy home fries, sausages, and for each egg-in-a-hole, its popped out toasty middle for dipping into the yolks. Serve hot with fresh coffee and plenty of orange or grapefruit juice.
Notes
- For the best and crispiest baked fries, cook them long enough to achieve the correct doneness. If using russets or sweet potatoes, the cooking time will vary. High heat and a longer bake time is the secret to a crispy outside and buttery, soft interior.
- A mere tablespoon is enough oil to grease the pan. This isn’t a deep fry, so a little bit less oil will yield a crispier fry. If you prefer to use canola oil or vegetable oil, by all means.
- Don’t line the baking sheet with parchment or aluminum foil! In this method, the third secret to crispy-on-the-outside home fries is direct contact with a screaming hot baking sheet. Hot pan equals crispier fries!
- Test the potatoes for doneness using a steak knife. If the potato easily slides off the knife tip when jabbed, they’re done.
- I used a heart-shaped cookie cutter to press out the centers of the bread, but use any 2-inch cutter you’d like. A drinking glass from your cupboard works, too!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
With much gratitude and appreciation, this recipe is courtesy of our friends at America’s Test Kitchen!
Jenny, not only can you take a closet and make a home office but you can also cook! I haven’t made this potato, sausage and egg dish yet but I’m aiming to, as I am a potato person. Thanks for sharing this recipe and Merry, Merry Christmas!
Rebecca, what a fabulous compliment, and I WILL TAKE IT! I hope you do try this recipe and soon – we did breakfast for dinner just the night before last and I made this recipe in full alongside of a big stack of buttermilk pancakes…my men can eat! Anyway, I know you’ll be tickled with this oven home fry method for sure! Merry Christmas, Rebecca! x- Jenny