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This paleo sweet potato apple breakfast bake is naturally sweet, teeming with warming cinnamon, packed with protein, healthy fats, and fiber. The dish reminds me of a New Orleans-style bread pudding with its cinnamon and raisins, but it’s totally paleo! A monthly or weekly staple in our home.
Before You Get Started
- To get the creamy, fluffy consistency we want for the eggs in this recipe, you’ll need to use coconut milk. Make sure you get the right one, though! Look for a canned coconut milk – NOT a “coconut milk beverage” in a carton. Also, you want to be sure you’ve got unsweetened coconut milk. This paleo breakfast bake has natural sweetness from the sweet potatoes and apples, and sweetened coconut milk would be too much. Lastly, full-fat coconut milk will give you the best, creamiest egg texture.
How to Make This Recipe
See recipe card below for full list of measurements, ingredients, and instructions.
Sauté the Mix-ins.
Toss the diced sweet potatoes into a large cast-iron skillet with melted ghee and sauté them until they begin to soften. At that point, add in the chopped apples and raisins, and continue sautéing until the raisins are plump and the apples and potatoes are soft. Throw in the walnut pieces and let everything simmer for a few minutes.
Cheryl’s Tip: If you don’t have a cast-iron skillet, that’s ok! Any oven-safe skillet will work. If you don’t have an oven-safe skillet, use a regular skillet for the stovetop portion, then transfer the mix-ins to a baking dish. Add the eggs to the baking dish and finish the recipe as instructed.
Add the eggs.
Whisk together the coconut milk and your desired number of eggs (6 for a less-eggy texture and 8 for a more-eggy texture) until they’re fully incorporated. The mixture should be pale yellow in color with no egg streaks left in the bowl. Pour the prepared eggs into the cast-iron skillet and smooth everything out into one even layer.
Make it a bake.
Pop the skillet in the oven for 20 minutes or until the eggs are baked-through completely. You can check the doneness of the eggs the same way you’d check the doneness of a cake or pan of brownies. When the eggs are ready, carefully take the skillet out of the oven, slice, and serve!
What I Love About This Recipe
- Chunks of sweet potato and apple coated in ghee and cinnamon, dotted with plumped raisins and rich walnuts, all covered with a creamy egg mixture? This hearty breakfast bake is exactly what you need after days or weeks of savory paleo breakfasts. Trust me… I’ve been there many times!
- This paleo breakfast bake is, like, the Goldilocks of breakfast bakes. Not too sweet, not too savory, not too custardy, not too complicated. Honestly, when this idea first came to me eons ago, I followed it with low expectations. But when the scent filled my kitchen and I saw all the components come together in real time? I was in love.
Recipe Variations
- Make it Your Own: This recipe is quite forgiving! Feel free to add more or less cinnamon, walnuts, or raisins, as desired.
Making changes to a recipe can result in recipe failure. Any substitutions or variations listed are simple changes that I believe will work in this recipe, but results are not guaranteed.
Paleo Breakfast Bake with Sweet Potatoes and Apples
Equipment
- Oven
- stovetop
- Large cast-iron skillet
- Large wooden spoon
- medium mixing bowl
- whisk
Ingredients
- ¼ cup ghee
- 2 medium sweet potatoes approximately 4-5 ounces each; peeled, diced
- 2 medium apples approximately 5-6 ounces each; cored, diced
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ⅔ cup raisins
- ⅓ cup walnut pieces
- salt to taste
- 6-8 large eggs see Notes
- 1 cup full-fat, unsweetened coconut milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325º Fahrenheit. Place large cast-iron skillet on stovetop over medium heat.
- When skillet is warm, add ¼ cup ghee. Continue heating skillet until ghee is completely melted.
- Once melted, add 2 medium sweet potatoes and stir to coat in ghee. Sauté diced potatoes, stirring often, until potatoes begin to soften, approximately 5 to 10 minutes.
- When potatoes have begun to soften, add 2 medium apples, 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, and ⅔ cup raisins. Stir to incorporate.
- Sauté ingredients 8 to 10 minutes or until raisins are plump and apples and potatoes can be easily pierced with tines of fork. Note: If needed, stir in 1 tablespoon water (plus more if needed) to prevent ingredients sticking and burning.
- When potatoes and apples are soft, add ⅓ cup walnut pieces and salt, to taste. Stir to incorporate, then sauté mixture 2 minutes.
- Crack 6-8 large eggs into medium mixing bowl, then add 1 cup full-fat, unsweetened coconut milk. Whisk ingredients together until fully combined into pale yellow mixture with no streaks of eggs remaining.
- Remove skillet from heat and let cool slightly. Pour egg mixture directly into skillet. Use back of spoon or silicone spatula to spread egg mixture evenly across skillet.
- Place skillet in preheated oven. Bake egg mixture 20 minutes or until eggs are set. To check, insert tip of knife directly into center of bake, then remove. Knife should come out completely clean.
- Carefully remove skillet from oven and set aside. Let stand 3 to 5 minutes, then slice bake and serve as desired.
- Eggs: 6 eggs creates a less eggy texture, so this is personal preference. I love both versions!
Approximate Information for One Serving
Nutrition Disclaimers
Number of total servings shown is approximate. Actual number of servings will depend on your preferred portion sizes.
Nutritional values shown are general guidelines and reflect information for 1 serving using the ingredients listed, not including any optional ingredients. Actual macros may vary slightly depending on specific brands and types of ingredients used.
To determine the weight of one serving, prepare the recipe as instructed. Weigh the finished recipe, then divide the weight of the finished recipe (not including the weight of the container the food is in) by the desired number of servings. Result will be the weight of one serving.
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Loved it! I was doubtful as I do not always enjoy sweet potato but I should have used it in sweet dishes before. Fabulous! Will certainly make it again. I omitted the ghee which I will also do in future. The other changes were more because of missing ingredients: because I had no coconut milk I used regular milk…..and at the last moment I noticed I had run out of raisins so I used chopped dates instead. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe – must be great to know it will make a regular appearance on a breakfast table in the Netherlands 🙂
this recipe is so so yummy! thanks so much for sharing! i used coconut oil instead of ghee like you had mentioned in one of the comments 😉 next time i think im going to add some maple syrup, vanilla extract, and cinnamon in the egg and coconut milk mixture!
My girls (9 & 6) love this! We just left the walnuts out and let them add as a topping if desired. Thanks for sharing such a healthy and delicious meal!
Can you make this the night before and bake in the morning??
Definitely!
Your nutritional facts serving size says 8. Are you really cutting this into eighths, and letting this last for eight days? If this is the only thing you eat for breakfast, how many slices would you recommend cutting this into?
Also, this recipe literally saved me through my first Whole30. It is absolutely delicious!! I make it weekly!
This was amazing! Im on day 20 of whole30 and sick of eggs but want the protein!
I divided the cinnamon, adding half to the apple mixture and half to the eggs. I also added half a mashed banana and a splash of coconut aminos to the egg mixture. Yummy comfort food!
This was AMAZING! I’m so happy I stumbled upon the recipe. I only used six eggs and it turned out a little eggier than I thought but the egg and coconut milk combo was so sweet and yummy with the apple/potato! Thanks for sharing!!
This is the best savory Paleo/Whole 30 breakfast I’ve ever tried, and I’ve tried a few.
Thank you!
This was delicious! I get sick of the veggie/egg casseroles and this was a nice change of pace. I blended a banana into the egg/coconut mixure and think it makes it sweet and custardy. Thank you.
Yum! I feel the same – that’s why I love this recipe so much!
Just made this and really enjoyed it. Thanks!
Mine looks so different from your pictures; I have like an egg topping rather than with sweets and apples popping up. Yours looks more appetizing for sure.