The Hot Honey Breakfast Bowls are about to completely transform your morning routine. If you love the viral cottage cheese bowl trend but want a warm, comforting breakfast option that keeps you full for hours, this sweet and savory mashup is the ultimate solution. Featuring roasted sweet potatoes, avocado, and a homemade breakfast sausage blend, it’s a protein-packed breakfast that delivers a perfect balance of textures and flavors to your dinner table or morning setup.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Perfect Sweet and Savory Balance: The contrast between the rich, creamy cottage cheese, the warm spices of the chicken sausage, and the sweet kick of hot honey creates an amazing flavor profile.
- Protein-Packed and Satisfying: Between the lean ground chicken and the cottage cheese base, these high-protein breakfast bowls offer an easy way to stay energized through busy weekdays.
- Ideal for Meal Prep: You can easily roast the veggies and cook the sausage ahead of time, making these the perfect make-ahead breakfast bowls for busy mornings when you have little time.
- Wholesome Ingredients: This savory breakfast bowl is packed with complex carbohydrates from sweet potatoes and healthy fats from fresh avocado, creating a beautifully balanced meal.
Ingredient Notes
- Ground Chicken Sausage: We use lean ground chicken combined with pure maple syrup, dried sage, and thyme to create a lighter, homemade chicken sausage. It gives you all the flavor of traditional breakfast sausage made at home. We use our fan favorite recipe for our maple chicken breakfast sausage patties but cook as crumbles instead of forming patties. This makes delicious chicken sausage breakfast bowls!
- Diced Sweet Potatoes: Sweet potatoes add a grounding, nourishing carbohydrate element to the dish. Cutting them into uniform pieces ensures they roast beautifully on the sheet pan.
- Cottage Cheese: This serves as the creamy, high-protein foundation of the bowl. It pairs beautifully with the warm toppings, similar to how you might use sour cream or greek yogurt in other savory breakfasts.
- Avocado: Slicing a fresh avocado over the top adds a gorgeous pop of color and a rich source of healthy fats to round out the plate.
- Hot Honey: A final drizzle of hot honey (we love Mike's Hot Honey) brings the entire dish together, adding a perfect hint of sweetness and a little touch of heat.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of ingredients and measurements for this cottage cheese breakfast bowl.
Recipe Tips & Variations
- Swap Your Toppings: This bowl is highly customizable. Feel free to add different ingredients based on what you have in your grocery store or fridge. Swap out for other roasted veggies like roasted bell pepper or onion, black beans, green onions, or even a handful of fresh fruit on the side work wonderfully.
- Egg Variations: If you want to add even more classic breakfast elements, these bowls taste incredible topped with a fried egg, sunny side up egg, or a scoop of fluffy scrambled eggs. You can even mix whisked eggs or egg whites directly into your warm sausage mixture in the large skillet.
- Potato Alternatives: If you run out of sweet potatoes, swapping in regular breakfast potatoes, cubed russet potatoes, or crispy baked hash browns makes an excellent base.
- Dairy-Free & Vegetarian Swaps: To make these healthy breakfast bowls dairy-free, swap the cottage cheese base for a dairy-free greek yogurt alternative or a scoop of seasoned black beans. For a vegan breakfast bowls variation, use a plant-based protein crumble for the sausage, use dairy-free yogurt, and swap the hot honey for maple syrup mixed with a pinch of cayenne pepper!
- If you like additional spice, you can always add a dash of hot sauce as well.
How to Make Hot Honey Breakfast Bowls
For the full recipe instructions, scroll down to the recipe card at the bottom of the page.
Step 1: Preheat and Prep the Sweet Potatoes. Preheat your oven to 400°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Place the diced sweet potatoes onto the baking sheet, drizzle with one tablespoon of olive oil, and sprinkle with the kosher salt, black pepper, paprika, and garlic powder. Toss until the potatoes are evenly coated, then spread them out into a single layer.
Roast the Sweet Potatoes. Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes, tossing halfway through, until the sweet potatoes are fork-tender and lightly browned around the edges.
Step 2: Cook the Chicken Sausage Crumbles. While the sweet potatoes roast, heat two teaspoons of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the ground chicken to the skillet, breaking it up with a wooden spoon.
Season the Chicken. Add the maple syrup, kosher salt, black pepper, paprika, garlic powder, dried sage, dried thyme, and red pepper flakes (if using) directly to the ground chicken. Cook for 6-8 minutes, stirring frequently to create small crumbles, until the chicken sausage is fully cooked through and no longer pink. Remove from the heat.
Step 3: Assemble the Breakfast Bowls. To assemble your bowls, add a half-cup base of creamy cottage cheese to each of the four bowls. Divide the warm roasted sweet potatoes and savory chicken sausage crumbles evenly among the bowls. Top each bowl with sliced avocado and a generous drizzle of hot honey. Enjoy immediately!
Breakfast Bowls FAQs
Store the cooked chicken sausage crumbles and roasted sweet potatoes together in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. When you're ready to eat, reheat the sausage and potatoes in microwave-safe bowls, then top with the cottage cheese, fresh avocado, and hot honey just before eating.
Absolutely! If you prefer a different protein option, you can use lean ground turkey or traditional pork roast sausage meat using the exact same spice ratios. Ground turkey sausage works beautifully as a direct 1-to-1 swap in the large skillet.
We typically use a low-fat cottage cheese, but a higher fat cottage cheese will give you the richest, creamiest base for these high-protein breakfast bowls. If you don't care for the texture of cottage cheese, you can blend it in a food processor first until smooth, or swap it for unsweetened plain Greek yogurt.
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Hot Honey Breakfast Bowls
Ingredients
For the chicken sausage:
- 1 pound lean ground chicken
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- ¾ teaspoon paprika
- ¾ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon dried sage
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
- 2 teaspoons olive oil or avocado oil, for cooking
For the sweet potatoes:
- 2 large or 3 medium sweet potatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¾ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- ¾ teaspoon paprika
- ¾ teaspoon garlic powder
For serving:
- 2 cups of cottage cheese
- 1 avocado, sliced
- Hot honey, for optional drizzle
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Place the diced sweet potatoes onto the baking sheet, drizzle with one tablespoon of olive oil, and sprinkle with the kosher salt, black pepper, paprika, and garlic powder. Toss until the potatoes are evenly coated, then spread them out into a single layer.
- Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes, tossing halfway through, until the sweet potatoes are fork-tender and lightly browned around the edges.
- While the sweet potatoes roast, heat two teaspoons of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the ground chicken to the skillet, breaking it up with a wooden spoon.
- Add the maple syrup, kosher salt, black pepper, paprika, garlic powder, dried sage, dried thyme, and red pepper flakes (if using) directly to the ground chicken. Cook for 6-8 minutes, stirring frequently to create small crumbles, until the chicken sausage is fully cooked through and no longer pink. Remove from the heat.
- To assemble your bowls, add a half-cup base of creamy cottage cheese to each of the four bowls. Divide the warm roasted sweet potatoes and savory chicken sausage crumbles evenly among the bowls. Top each bowl with sliced avocado and a generous drizzle of hot honey. Enjoy immediately!
Notes
- Save time/prep ahead: You can dice the sweet potatoes and mix the dry sausage seasoning mix over the weekend. Store the cut potatoes in an airtight container in the fridge so they are ready to toss on a baking sheet for a quick, warm breakfast during busy weekdays.
- Dietary variations: To make this recipe completely dairy-free, swap the cottage cheese for a plain plant-based yogurt alternative and verify that your cooking spray or oil is dairy-free. For another dairy-free option, try our favorite dairy free egg casserole. For a vegetarian breakfast option, swap the ground chicken sausage for a can of seasoned black beans or a plant-based protein crumble.
- The recipe can be found on My Fitness Pal by searching "BWB Hot Honey Breakfast Bowls." The nutrition content provided for each recipe is an estimate created through the My Fitness Pal database. Please be aware that the nutritional content of each recipe may vary based on the products you use, the precision of your measurements, and the source you use to obtain nutrition data. While we try to provide accurate information, we give no guarantee regarding the accuracy of the nutritional information provided.
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