Animal Style Breakfast Potatoes Recipe

Animal Style Breakfast Potatoes are perfect for brunch – loaded with cheese, caramelized onions, and an easy animal-style sauce!  This is a fantastic way to jazz up your hash browns or home fries and have a fun fast-food-feel meal at home.

This is a great sauce for breakfast potatoes, light and tangy, sweet & delicious!  Serve with eggs, toast, or breakfast for dinner!

I’m not a big fast food person, but when I moved to California I would go to In-N-Out every chance I could!  I took every opportunity (within my tight grad student budget) to save up and splurge on really good burger & fries… and I always loved the sweet and tangy sauce.

This is my homage to an animal style breakfast – instead of French fries, you get animal style hash browns or home fries!  The potatoes are cooked on a sheet pan with the caramelized onions, so this simple breakfast is ready in about 40 minutes start to finish! Make (and eat) your breakfast animal style.

These Animal Style Breakfast Potatoes Are

• Decadent
• Creamy
• Tangy
• Sweet
• Fun to Make At Home
• A Great In-N-Out inspired brunch recipe
• Vegetarian

What Are Animal Style Potatoes?

The phrase “animal style” refers to a secret menu option at In-N-Out Burger fast food restaurants. You can get your fries or burger done animal style meaning they will load ’em up with cheese, grilled onions, and a creamy tangy sauce.

When I lived in California I would go there all the time to get my food animal styled, so this is my fun breakfast interpretation of these ingredients you can make at home.

What’s In These Animal Style Breakfast Potatoes?

See the recipe card below for full ingredient amounts and recipe instructions!

• Home fries or hash browns: I like to buy frozen hash browns for this recipe, as they are inexpensive and way more convenient than shredding your own potatoes.
• Onions – roasted in the pan with the potatoes!
• Garlic
• Ketchup
• Dill Relish – a great dill relish is perfect in this sauce, sweet relish makes this a little too sweet (trust me, I tried it!).  So make sure you use dill relish and not one with loads of sugar or sweeteners.
• Granulated Sugar
• Apple Cider Vinegar, which gives this sauce a little extra tang which is really fantastic
• Black Pepper

How Do I Make Animal Style Potatoes?

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Cook the Potatoes and Onions: On a sheet pan, add the hash browns or home fries to one side of the pan, and the onions on the other. Add the olive oil and Montreal Steak Spice and toss the potatoes and the onions separately until each is coated in oil and spices.  Bake for 30 minutes, flipping half way.
3. Make the Sauce: In a bowl, add all the sauce ingredients and stir well to combine. If your relish is too chunky and you prefer a thinner sauce, you can blend it to a smooth consistency.
4. Once potatoes and onions have finished cooking, carefully remove the sheet pan from the oven. On a plate, add the potatoes, a layer of American cheese, the onions, and topped with sauce.  Dig in and enjoy!

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Animal Style Breakfast Potatoes

Kelly Jensen

Animal Style Breakfast Potatoes are a fun weekend California brunch recipe, loaded with cheese, onions, and an easy animal style sauce!  This is a fantastic way to jazz up your hash browns or home fries and have a fun fast-food-feel meal at home.

5 from 2 votes

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Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, Brunch, Sauce

Cuisine American, Californian

Servings 4 servings

Calories 367 kcal

Ingredients

  

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For the Potatoes

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 lb frozen home fries or hash browns about 4 cups
• 1 teaspoon Montreal Steak Spice
• 2 sweet onion sliced
• 4 slices American Cheese

For the In N Out Sauce Recipe

• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup ketchup
• 1/4 cup dill relish
• 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper

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Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Cook the Potatoes and Onions: On a sheet pan, add the hash browns or home fries to one side of the pan, and the onions on the other. Add the olive oil and Montreal Steak Spice and toss the potatoes and the onions separately until each is coated in oil and spices.  Bake for 30 minutes, flipping half way.
• Make the Sauce: In a bowl, add all the sauce ingredients and stir well to combine. If your relish is too chunky and you prefer a thinner sauce, you can blend it to a smooth consistency.
• Once potatoes and onions have finished cooking, carefully remove the sheet pan from the oven. On a plate, add the potatoes, a layer of American cheese, the onions, and topped with sauce.  Dig in and enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 367kcalCarbohydrates: 39gProtein: 8gFat: 32gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 14gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 33mgSodium: 947mgPotassium: 523mgFiber: 3gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 350IUVitamin C: 15mgCalcium: 256mgIron: 2mg

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