Everybody loves Sunday Brunch whether it’s at home or going out. On those Sunday’s when you go out, where’s you favorite place? Ours is, and always has been, the Frontier Restaurant in Albuquerque. It’s a funky place occupying half a city block directly across the street from the University of New Mexico. We don’t go often because it’s very crowded on Sunday mornings, but when the college is on break, it gets slow and relatively quiet – perfect for Sunday brunch. When we go, we invariably get the same things – Bobby gets the Huevos Rancheros with Red (chile sauce) and I get the Western-style hash browns with an egg. The Huevos include 2 eggs, beans, and red chile on corn tortillas with a freshly made flour tortilla for $6.59. The Western-Stye hash browns are a LARGE stack of hashed brown potatoes, piled with chopped green chile and cheese, all for the bank busting price of $3.10! With the egg, tack on another $1.35 for a total of $4.45. Two delicious, plentiful meals for less than $12 and because it’s self-serve, there’s no tip.
On the way out, we grab a dozen freshly made flour tortillas, still warm, for $2.99. So if you’re ever in Albuquerque and want to get a cheap and delicious New Mexico meal with GOOD chile and a VERY interesting atmosphere, stop by the Frontier. It will definitely be a meal and an experience to remember. To learn more about the Frontier Restaurant, read Gil’s Thrilling (and Filling) review. He obviously has spent as much time there as I have.
Even though I absolutely LOVE the Frontier’s Western-Style Hash browns, they are heavy with the starchy potatoes; therefore, when I make them at home, I try to make them a little healthier. I substitute part, if not all of the potatoes with sweet potatoes. The cheese and pile of roasted, chopped green chile? They stay. Add the egg, some chopped tomatoes on the side and we’ve got a tasty, healthy Sunday brunch.
A little something interesting (from Wikipedia): The first known mention of the term “hashed brown potatoes” was in 1888 by food author Maria Parloa. Hashed brown potatoes, also called hashed browned potatoes, was later shortened to “hash browns”. The first use of the term “hash browns” was in the pilot episode of the original “The Twilight Zone” in 1959, one of my favorite shows as a kid (actually I still like watching the old black & white reruns).
Green Chile Sweet Potato Hash Browns
A healthy and hearty breakfast. Makes a great Sunday brunch.
“*” See Kitchen Notes for more information or links to special ingredients.
- 1 large sweet potato, washed, scrubbed, and grated
- 1/2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1/2 cup roasted, chopped green chile*
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, grated
- 2 eggs
- Heat a skillet (I use a non-stick skillet) over medium heat. Add the butter.
- When the butter has melted, add the grated potato and toss to coat with the butter.
- Spread the grated potatoes evenly across the skillet.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Cover and cook over medium heat for 4 minutes. Remove lid.
- Turn heat up to medium high.
Cook until potatoes are crispy brown on the bottom. Flip.
Continue to cook until the other side of the potatoes are crispy brown.
- Reduce the heat and top the potatoes with green chile and cheese. Let sit over a low heat while you cook the eggs.
Cook 2 eggs sunny-side up or over easy*.
- Divide the potatoes (with chile and cheese) between two plates. Top each serving with an egg.
- Suggested Sides: chopped fresh tomatoes, avocado, or both
Sunday brunch, Sunday supper or a meal any day of the week, these sweet potato hash browns with green chile are a fast and fabulous option.
For more sweet potato dishes, check out these recipes:
Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Brown Butter and Bourbon
Spicy Orange Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Sweet Potatoes – Quick and Easy
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I love reruns of the Twilight Zone! I haven’t seen some in quite a while and I’ve only seen a handful to begin with… These potatoes sound wonderful, MJ, and I love the combination of hash browns with roasted green chiles (and a little chorizo couldn’t hurt!)…
I’m not surprised that you’re a Twilight Zone fan. 🙂 I Love them! Thanks so much for your comment Mark! And yes, chorizo is great with this dish.
Green chile + breakfast food = my favourite meal any day!
Hash browns with a brilliant golden egg running all over them . . . when can you come and fix breakfast for me MJ? I’m drooling!
xo
Roz
I definitely want to wake up with those waiting on the breakfast table
This looks like such a satisfying breakfast! The perfect way to start the morning!
Absolutely delicious!
Yup, I do love me a hearty delicious Sunday brunch!!! One of my favorite breakfast choices is Huevos Rancheros, sooooooo good….especially with homemade tortillas! I love the idea of mixing sweet potatoes with green chiles, perfect combo with yummy eggs! It looks delicious for sure, Hugs, Terra
Thanks Terra! We obviously have the same tastes in brunches. 🙂
My stomach just growled so loudly, it wants your dish MJ!:) The restaurant sounds great and so do the prices. I love hash browns but have never made them with sweet potatoes. Thanks so much for sharing this, can’t wait to have it for brunch or even dinner.:)
Thanks Nancy! Yes, those prices are unheard of! I guess it can keeps its prices down because of the huge volume of business. I think you would love sweet potato hash browns!
Nice a sweet potato hash brown. You know Mj, when I started blogging I hadn’t heard all these American food names before. I had no clue what hash brown meant. lol
Brunch is like a universal time on Sunday’s here. =D I might try yours with different chillies since we don’t get those here one fine Sunday evening.
Thanks Helene! Well, you and others have certainly introduced me to some new culinary dish/terminology/ingredients as well. 🙂 As you know, any type of chile would work with this. Enjoy!
You could give the restaurant a lesson on Sunday brunch ideas. 🙂
What a hearty breakfast MJ! Although I love all kinds of sweets, when it comes to breakfast, I always prefer savory (or both – I can eat sweet as “dessert” after savory!). If you cook this on weekend, I would be looking forward to the weekend. 🙂 Delicious!
This plate of food has comfort written all over it!
Love it every time you re-introduce us to something familiar yet taken for granted. Hash browns sure have a better ring! I don’t think we get to visit the Frontier anytime soon, so your sweet potato hash browns will be an excellent one to include in our brunch rotation. May be in dinner rotation too!! I always love a good ‘breakfast-dinner’, especially a comforting one like this
Thanks Reese! Yep – we do have this for dinner at times. 🙂
I do so love going out for breakfast, possibly more so than going out for dinner. There is something to be said for being served such a lovely meal right after waking up:) I think I’d prefer yours, the idea of healthy plus the sweet potato flavor is so appealing!! xx
Thanks Barbara! I have to say that I’m with you – I prefer going out for brunch more than dinner. By the time dinner comes around I’m ready to sit back and unwind for the rest of the evening.
Since there is no way I can visit the Frontier, I am more than happy to discover this recipe. The dish looks beautiful and I can very well imagine why you love it for brunch. For me it also sounds like a perfect Sunday brunch (especially with chorizo you have suggested!).
Thanks Sissi! I wish you could visit the Frontier. Wouldn’t it be fun to meet there for brunch? 🙂
Oh I bet this would be great with those Hatch Chile’s I have. Great recipe my family would love this for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Absolutely Vicki! Hatch chile is a New Mexico chile so go for it! I do think your family would love it.
That restaurant sounds like a place I would love going to. This is some meal!
Having seen many of the restaurants that you frequent Peachy, you would love the Frontier! 🙂
I Love sweet potatoes and just roasted up 5lbs of Hatch Chile’s this weekend. This sounds like a delicious use for some of them!
You go girl! This is a great use for some of those chiles!
Now that’s a breakfast, MJ! I love sweet potatoes and eggs and the green chilis are a great addition! Looks like I need to put this on my to do list for a lazy Sunday morning. Awesome post!
Thanks so much Bill! Can you get green chile where you are?
This looks perfect for my weekend brunch!!Love sweet potatoes and its such a healthier and tastier alternative to regular potatoes!Would love to try it 🙂
Hi MJ, I’m not such a huge fan of sweet potatoes, but a half/half mix of regular/sweet would be perfect for me I think! I love hash browns – topped with a fried egg it’s perfect feel-good food… love the idea of adding chorizo as well. Would be the icing on the proverbial cake 🙂
Totally agree about the egg Charles! Half and half works great here. I’ve done that many times myself. And yes, chorizo…perfection! 🙂
Menu for my Sunday brunch is decided! Yummy…
I am reading this in bed in the morning….so you can imagine I want this for breakfast NOW lol. Looks so good and that sound like a great place for brunch at great prices.
Although we do not make brunch around here, I would love to have this dish on my breakfast table. This is so delicious!
Oh my gosh how incredible this looks! I love hash browns but have never thought to use sweet potatoes before. So sweet and spicy…..and of course everything is better with a warm runny egg on top! Beautiful photos! : )
Thanks so much Anne! I think you would love sweet potato hash browns. They aren’t near as starchy and of course that wonderful sweet potato flavor.
Delicious plate of breakfast dish, I am in love ti. When I plan to visit New Mexico sure I am going to try this. Thanks Mj
Thanks swathi! Hope you get over here to try this.
Your version looks terrific, MJ! So many magnificent flavors…a party for my mouth!
I love this MJ. I love hash browns, how could you not?, but never ever thought about using sweet potatoes. This is just genius!!!
Thanks Susan! I’m am sweet potato lover so I use them in a lot of dishes that call for regular potatoes.
This is so gooooood!!! This is going to be our lunch today. Looks fantastic!!!!
Thanks Minnie! Hope you like it!
I just love this simple yet great tasting meal!
I love all the flavors of sweet, spicy and savory. That egg looks perfect too. 🙂 Wonderful looking hash. 🙂
We love sweet potato hash browns and adding green chile would be fabulous — great recipe, MJ, and the photo is gorgeous!
Thanks so much Judy!
That’s a great breakfast, MJ. A mix of sweet potatoes with ‘regular” would make it even better. Love the idea. If I’m ordering breakfast at a Mexican restaurant, like Bobby, I’ll order huevos rancheros every time. I just cannot resist them once I see them on a menu. 🙂
Thanks John! Actually, the one’s in the picture have 1 new potato grated in, but the sweet potato was much bigger so that’s all you see. It’s not pretty, but it’s so good! All you Huevos Rancheros people. 🙂
And a huge cinnamon roll on the side! Frontier’s specialty.
I’ve always have to split the cinnamon rolls with at least 2 other people. 🙂 They’re HUGE and SO sweet, but SO good! Thanks for stopping by Cheryl!
I don’t think hash browns have ever looked so enticing 😀
Cheers
CCU
Oh!! yummo!! my kind of breakfast!!
I love hash browns made out of sweet potatoes! I don’t make them that way often, but you’ve reminded me how great they are – I need to again. And I happen to have some Hatch chilies on hand! One of the supermarkets I frequent has a ton of them this year – pretty unusual. So I’ve been stocking up. 😉 Fun pictures – an egg makes almost any picture look better, don’t you think? 😉
Thanks John! What a happy guy you must be to have some Hatch chile! New Mexico has had a good crop this year in spite of the drought. Good to see you’re stocking up. 🙂 And yes – the egg saves these pictures! 🙂
Ooh this sounds wonderful! I love almost all breakfast/brunch items. Like your husband, I love huevos rancheros. But I love all things hash (the food kind :P) too! This sounds like my kind of brunch. Great recipe MJ!
Thanks Gomo! I love Huevos as well, but I just can’t resist those Western fries. I actually like my Huevos Rancheros more. 🙂
When I lived in the states and I was out very late, a plate of potatoes and eggs was always required before going home. 🙂
I love this stuff!
Thanks Maureen! Well, the Frontier is the place that people like you (us) would go after a night on the town. They use to be opened 24/7, but now they close at 2 am and open again at 5 I believe.
Mj! It’s Sunday morning and you’ve made me crave this for brunch! Love the history lesson too… Absolutely delicious and satisfying recipe!
Thanks Viviane! I thought the history was pretty interesting as well.
My kind of breakfast. Anything with a fried egg, cheese and chilies. Yum! It’s so funny to think of the price differences from the States to Canada. One meal with coffee would cost a minimum of 12 $, even if it was self serve. The other thing I find surprising is that a bag of 12 tortillas is 2.99 and a regular sized bag is around 6-7 dollars (if you can even find them). Thanks for sharing. If we’re ever in the area we’ll go check it out.
Thanks Frances! Yes, that is quite a price difference! Of course, the Frontier is one of the cheapest places in town to eat. You can’t get those prices anywhere else.
I never thought of making hash browns with sweet potatoes! Looks so delicious! Great idea MJ!
Thanks Tessa! I think you would love them, especially if you love sweet potatoes.
I want some sweet potato hashbrowns so badly! This is so comforting and tasty.
Thanks Angie! I agree!
We are loving your recipes and your kitchen notes. I find myself not wanting to leave your website, only long enough to try another recipe. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks is much for the wonderful comment Janet! So glad to hear from you and that you’re enjoying my recipes! Have a great Sunday.
I wish I had a sweet potato in the kitchen right now, I’d make em this minute!
love, D
Thanks Dale! Have a great Sunday! XOXO
I am adding Frontier to the list for our next NM trip. Until then, I will make these at home. Thanks!
Thanks Debra! Next time you’re here, we should meet at the Frontier. 🙂