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Cheesy Hash Brown Nests

By Kate Morgan Jackson

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This easy recipe for cheesy hash brown nests is a fun way to serve poached, soft boiled and scrambled eggs. And they are great for barbecue, too!  Bet you can think of even more things to serve in this incredible, edible potato bowl.

Cheesy Hash Brown Nests

This recipe started out as a result of an overabundance of Yukon gold potatoes in my kitchen.  With just the Southern husband and me in the house, I like to buy things by twos, but at some point our local market didn’t have loose Yukons.  Nope, they only had them in the 5 pound bag, and I needed my Yukons, so I went for the five pound bag.

I finished making what I was making, and then I still had pounds of Yukons left over.  And since we have a strict no ingredient left behind rule around these parts, I needed to get inventive…and so I bring you cheesy hash brown nests, which used up a pound of those Yukons and led to ALL kinds of Southern husband happiness.  Got a pound of potatoes and a muffin tin?  Let’s make them!

You need to start by grating them up – no need to peel them, just scrub them up well with your handy vegetable scrubber, and if you have a food processor with a grater attachment the shredding will take you about two minutes.

Now mix up that pile of shredded potato goodness with some butter, a little salt and pepper and some cheddar cheese (or really, any kind of shredded cheese that you like).  Now line your muffin tin with squares of foil – if you make the squares just a little bigger than the muffin tin opening, that will make the cheese hash brown nests removal that much easier.

Spray the foil-lined muffin cups with cooking spray and divide the potato mixture among the 12 cups.  Now smoosh the mixture down along the bottom and up the sides, and pop them in the oven for about 45 minutes.  When they are cool enough to handle, lift them out using the edges of the foil liners, peel the foil off and you are ready to fill them up.  We ate our first new nests filled with scrambled eggs and a little parsley.  Then we had 8 nests to go.

So we ate a few more the next day filled with poached eggs (and click here for my never-fail poached eggs method.)

Cheesy Hash Brown Nests

Some people drizzled theirs with Sriracha sauce.  Some wimpier folks didn’t (raises hand).

Cheesy Hash Brown Nests

Four to go.  I was about to go back to the scrambled eggs when the Southern husband sprang into action and filled the rest of them with some leftover barbecue and oh my my.

Southern husband

And we all lived happily ever after.  What would YOU fill them with?

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Cheesy Hash Brown Nests


  • Author: Kate Jackson
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 45 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour
  • Yield: 12 nests 1x
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American
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Ingredients

  • 1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes
  • 4 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1 cup grated cheddar cheese
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 and line a 12 cup muffin pan with foil squares. Spray with cooking spray.
  2. Peel the potatoes and grate them into shreds (the grating attachment on your food processor is perfect for this!
  3. Mix all ingredients together. Divide the mixture among the 12 muffin cups and press onto the bottom and sides of the cups. Bake until crispy, about 45 minutes.
  4. When cool enough to handle, take out of the muffin cups and peel away the foil. Fill with your choice of eggs (or barbecue!)
1 hash brown nest1010.4 g161.2 mg7 g4.2 g0.1 g7 g0.8 g3 g19.5 mg

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Hi there!  I’m Kate, and I’m a recipe writer, food photographer and devoted bacon lover.  I started Framed Cooks in 2009, and my mission is to create and share family-friendly recipes that make cooking both easy and fun…yes, I said FUN!  My kitchen is my happy place, and I want yours to be that place too.  And if you make this recipe, I would love you to tag @FramedCooks on Instagram so I can see the deliciousness!as seen in logos

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Published on July 27, 2017

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  1. Theresa Murphy says

    July 27, 2017 at 11:58 am

    How about filling them with some loaded mashed potatoes? You know, loaded with bacon and chives and sour cream and more cheese. Better put some butter in there, too. It could be like a mini version of a twice baked potato, only more fun to eat!

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    • Kate says

      July 29, 2017 at 3:06 pm

      OMG. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Great idea!!

      Reply
  2. Luci's Morsels says

    July 27, 2017 at 6:43 pm

    Love these dainty nests! They look so delicious, perfect for a brunch!

    Luci’s Morsels | fashion. food. frivolity.

    Reply
    • Kate says

      July 29, 2017 at 3:06 pm

      Breakfast, lunch, dinner…and now brunch!

      Reply
  3. Karen @ The Food Charlatan says

    July 29, 2017 at 4:43 am

    This is genius!! Shredded potatoes are so versatile, I should definitely make more stuff with it! I would definitely add the sriracha. Possibilities are endless! It would be fun to serve these for company and people could fill their own.

    Reply
    • Kate says

      July 29, 2017 at 3:06 pm

      Well, I just LOVE that company idea! I’m definitely doing that. :)

      Reply
  4. Robyn Stone | Add a Pinch says

    July 31, 2017 at 1:18 pm

    These nests look fabulous, Kate! I mean, does it get any better than cheesy, hash-browned, and stuffed with all kinds of favorite foods? I think not. So count me in!!!
    Thanks for including a link to my recipe for another idea. So many wonderful ways to eat these!
    I can’t wait to make them!!!
    Robyn xo

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    • Kate says

      August 3, 2017 at 7:16 am

      My husband is working his way through the leftover nests from this weekend and is getting more and more creative about what he fills them with! :)

      Reply
    • Kate says

      August 6, 2017 at 8:53 am

      Thanks my friend! I always find so many ways to use our recipes together! xo

      Reply

Hi, I’m Kate! I’m a recipe writer, food photographer and devoted bacon lover. I’m so glad you’re here!

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