These Crockpot Breakfast Potatoes make a hands-free method for cooking potatoes for breakfast! They're perfectly seasoned and cook up so tender and with so much flavor. They're perfect for a holiday breakfast, family brunch, or for feeding a crowd at your next potluck.
We love these potatoes in our house! I prep everything up the night before so that I wake up to these fabulous breakfast potatoes cooked and ready to go! They turn out great being in the slow cooker all night and all ready to serve up with our favorite egg dishes.
If you love these other breakfast potato recipes you've got to try my Loaded Breakfast Burgers, Muffin Egg Cups, and Loaded Benedict Breakfast Potatoes next!
Why You Will Love This Crockpot Potatoes Recipe
- Great for Breakfast or Dinner. They are a tasty side dish to serve with eggs but flexible enough to serve for dinner too! Or how about enjoying breakfast for dinner with these potatoes?
- Cooks Overnight. Wake up to potatoes ready to serve in the morning. This works great for holidays, company, or lazy weekends with the family.
- Customizable. Swap the seasonings, skip the bacon, or add some cheese. It's so easy to customize your potatoes for breakfast so they're just the way you want them.
Ingredients
- Small Potatoes: Small potatoes make this much easier to prep. You can use larger potatoes if that's all you have available and cut them into smaller pieces. You can use any variety of baby potatoes.
- Bacon: Crispy, smoky, and salty! It adds a nice flavor.
- Onion and Bell Pepper: Classic veggies for breakfast potatoes.
- Seasoning: Paprika, garlic powder, seasoned salt, and black pepper. Add more depth of flavor creating a flavorful potato dish for breakfast.
- Butter: Adds a bit of moisture and buttery richness to the dish. While oil may provide some moisture it's lacking in the flavor of butter so I highly recommend sticking with the butter.
See the recipe card below for the exact quantities of each ingredient.
Variations
- Swap the Meat. Try a different cooked protein or meat such as ham, cooked sausage, peameal, back bacon, or pancetta. I have used them all and my personal favorite is bacon I have to say.
- Spicy Kick. Add a bit of chili pepper flakes, diced jalapeno pepper, jalapeno powder, smoked jalapeno powder, or chipotle powder to the potatoes.
- Breakfast Sweet Potatoes. Swap the white potatoes for sweet ones. They cook a bit more quickly so keep an eye on them when cooking them for the first time.
- Vegetarian. Skip the bacon!
- Make it Cheesy. Sprinkle some cheese over the top after stirring everything together at the end of cooking. Cover with a lid and let it sit for five minutes to melt the cheese.
How to Make Breakfast Potatoes
Step 1: Mix the seasonings. Combine the seasoned salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika in a small bowl and mix well.
Step 2: Place potatoes in crockpot. Place the potatoes and onions into a slow cooker sprayed with cooking spray.
Step 3: Season. Sprinkle the seasonings and drizzle the butter over the top of the potatoes. Toss the potatoes until seasoning and butter is evenly distributed.
Step 4: Cover and cook. Cook the potatoes with the lid on the pot on high for 2 ½ to 3 hours or on low for 4 to 5 hours, or until the potatoes are fork tender.
Step 5: Add the veggies and bacon. Once the potatoes are cooked, add the peppers and bacon to the pot. Stir until blended and cover and cook for 10 more minutes.
Step 6: Serve. Stir everything together before serving. Sprinkle with garnish and enjoy!
If you love breakfast potato recipes like this one you may also enjoy our air fryer breakfast potatoes too!
What to Serve with Breakfast Potatoes
Sprinkle a bit of freshly chopped parsley or green onion over the for a burst of color. Here are a few more serving ideas for breakfast, dinner, or even brunch potatoes.
For breakfast, enjoy these potatoes with your favorite egg recipes like these air fryer poached eggs, air fryer soft-boiled eggs or our fantastic Fluffy Cloud Eggs recipe that the kids will also love! they are different from the normal breakfast eggs and delicious.
Serve them up as a dinner potato side with hearty favorites like bacon cheeseburger pie, crockpot ribeye steaks, or smothered hamburger steaks.
Recipe Tips
- Storing: Store leftovers in the fridge for up to four days. Reheat in the oven, air fryer, or in a skillet on the stove. I don't recommend freezing them.
- Potato Prep: Make sure the potatoes are evenly sized. You may need to cut larger baby potatoes in half or quarters.
Recipe FAQs
Sure you can! You will want to cook them on low heat but I also recommend using a crockpot with a timer so you can program a start time or have it cut off after the allotted cooking time.
Sure but make sure to use a high-capacity slow cooker (6 quarts) so the pot isn't overly full as when there are more potatoes piled on it may take longer for them to cook.
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Slow Cooker Breakfast Potatoes
Equipment
- large skillet for bacon, if adding
Ingredients
- 3 pounds small or mini potatoes quartered
- ½ pound bacon, cooked and crumbled optional
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped yellow or white
- 1 large sweet pepper, finely chopped optional
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- ⅓ cup butter melted
- 2 teaspoons seasoned salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- cooking spray
Instructions
- In a small bowl combine the seasoned salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika. Stir until blended and set aside.
- Prepare slow cooker with cooking spray. Place potatoes and then onions into your slow cooker. Sprinkle seasonings and drizzle butter. Toss potatoes until seasoning and butter is evenly distributed.
- Cover and cook on high for 2 ½ to 3 hours or on low for 4 to 5 hours, or until the potatoes are fork tender.
- Once potatoes are cooked add peppers (if using) and bacon (if using). Stir until blended and cover and cook for 10 more minutes.
- Stir before serving and enjoy!
Notes
- Storing: Store leftovers in the fridge for up to four days. Reheat in the oven, air fryer, or in a skillet on the stove. I don't recommend freezing them.
- Potato Prep: Make sure the potatoes are evenly sized. You may need to cut larger baby potatoes in half or quarters.
Nutrition
This post was originally published in September 2019. It has been republished with new content and images.
Bridgett says
Breakfast can be a tricky one for us sometimes. Everyone is hungry ut nobody wants to cook. Or there are too many cooking in the kitchen. This potatoes recipe is so easy because the slow cooker does it all. What a great Breakfast idea! 👍 next time I’m making a double batch. They’re so good. Thx KD
Karin and Ken says
As always you’re most welcome. We love these breakfast potatoes too. Easy and so good. With or without the bacon. Thank you for taking the time to let me know. You made my day. All the best. Karin
KC says
this sounds like my kinda potato/bacon heaven. Please could you be more specific as to what potatoes ie russets or red or yukons etc as wells as roughly the recipe as stated serves how many. I am making for Easter brunch. Thanks
Karin and Ken says
Frankly, I just use 3 pounds of mini or small potatoes and cut them in half. I have used yukon gold, white, red potatoes and variety packs of those tiny whole potatoes or little gems too and all worked out beautifully. I make this recipe regularly and frequently cook these tasty potatoes on low. Usually, they come in bags that are 1 1/2 pounds each and contain around 22 potatoes per bag on average. Again, I cut them all in half. In my house I am surrounded by big eaters. My husband has started to slow down but my son, who frequently has his two buddies over, is super active and is a carpenter. The four of them can eat an entire slow cooker full of these potatoes with a pile of scrambled eggs, just like in the photograph. Hopefully you can see the portion there. That is roughly 1/4 of the total potatoes that are made. I would guess that this amount of potatoes can easily feed 8 people, perhaps a couple more even depending on how much food is there, how many are small children and generally the size of the appetites. I apologize that I haven't been as helpful as I would like to have been. As a result of your question we are making these potatoes with regular sized, chopped potatoes but as I recall the mini potatoes worked better to cook evenly in your slow cooker. I will know shortly if I remember correctly! Regardless, these bacon potatoes are delicious and if you try them please let me know what you think. I would love to hear. All the best. Take care and be well. Karin