These Keto Breakfast “Potatoes” are a great low-carb breakfast option! The hash is filled with turnips, smoky bacon, and green onions!
What did the vegetables say when they arrived at the house party… Lettuce, turnip the beet. That’s my favorite turnip joke, actually come to think of it, it’s my only turnip joke. Anyway, these Keto Breakfast “Potatoes” are a great way to start the day, they look and taste just like the breakfast potatoes I used to eat all the time. My favorite way to eat them is on the side of my southern gravy omelet.
Turnips are a cruciferous vegetable, just like broccoli and brussels sprouts, but uniquely they are also a root vegetable. They taste like a cross between a carrot and a potato and can be subbed in place of the starchy tuber in many recipes.
Turnips are packed with nutrients and even provide anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antifungal, antiparasitic, and antibacterial benefits. Fun fact, turnip juice can actually be used as a pretty effective deodorant. Getting back on track, if you can find turnips with their leafy greens still intact, cook those too. The greens are even more nutritious than bulbous part of the turnip. My local grocery store sells the greens and the bulb separately, so I usually pick these up at the farmer’s market when they are in season.
I was kind of a picky eater growing up, and I can honestly say I don’t think I had ever tried turnips until a few years ago. But this is by far the best preparation of turnips I have in my limited experience so far. I hope I can say the same thing about the next turnip recipe I post because I’m making up for lost turnip-eating time.
Check out these other resources to read more about the astounding nutritional benefits of turnips:
Ingredients in Keto Breakfast “Potatoes”
- turnips
- bacon
- green onions
- onion
- spices
- ghee or avocado oil
What to serve the “potatoes” with
Eggs, duh! Seriously though, this is also great with a side of our Keto Breakfast Meatballs!
Keto Breakfast "Potatoes"
Ingredients
- 1 large turnip peeled and diced (270g)
- 1/4 onion diced (56g)
- 3 slices bacon
- 1 tablespoon ghee or avocado oil
- 1/2 teaspoon each of paprika garlic powder, salt, and pepper
- 1 green onion sliced, for garnish
- Parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Add the oil to a large skillet over medium high heat. Add in the turnips and spices. Cook 5-7 minutes stirring occasionally.
- Add in the onion and cook 3 minutes until it starts to soften. Chop the bacon into small pieces and add to the skillet. Continue to cook another 5-7 minutes until the bacon is crispy.
- Top with green onion and parsley before serving.
Nutrition
I love your recipes. This is the one I’ve made the most, it’s perfect. Your posts are straight-to-the-point (which I also love) but are not in a format that can be imported via My Fitness Pal. Maybe you don’t care but I thought I’d share : )) I’ll be entering this one manually.
Just made this and it is not bad. Turnips get soft instead of crisping up though. So not the same texture at all. I loved diced potatoes in a breakfast scramble, but alas I would rather go without then use these as a replacement.
I like to boil cubes of turnip and use in "potato" salad. Everything else the same, hard boiled egg, onion, celery, mayonnaise and dill pickle. Really hard to tell the difference.
That sounds awesome! My wife makes a cauliflower potato salad that’s really good based on her grandmothers recipe, I’ll have to try it with turnips now too.
What about cooking the turnips in bacon grease and forgo the olive oil?
That’s a great idea!
I want to try this, but have never ever had turnips. What about using radishes? I hear those are most flavored like potatoes.
Radishes are a bit more watery and less starchy, they would still work though!
I loved this recipe! I couldn’t tell the difference. A whole new Keto world just opened up for me!
Can you make your recipes printable?
These are amazing! Thank you so much for this recipe! My husband loves it also 🙂 After trying turnips in this dish I used them in my fav clam chowder recipe and they worked amazingly well! Thanks for the inspiration!!