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Easy Breakfast Casserole with Sausage, Hashbrowns and Eggs
This easy sausage, egg and hash brown breakfast casserole is simple to make, and always a crowd-pleaser!
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground Italian sausage (hot, mild or sweet)
- 1 medium white onion, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, cored and diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 (20 ounce) bag frozen diced hash brown potatoes*, thawed
- 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese, divided
- 6 eggs
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt*
- a few generous twists of freshly-cracked black pepper
- toppings: thinly sliced green onions, sliced avocado and/or hot sauce
Instructions
- Prepare oven. Heat oven to 375°F.
- Brown the sausage. Cook over medium-high heat in a large sauté pan until browned, crumbling the sausage with a spoon as it cooks. Transfer sausage with a slotted spoon to a large mixing bowl. Reserve 1 tablespoon of the remaining sausage grease in the sauté, and discard the rest.
- Sauté veggies. Add onion and bell pepper to the pan and sauté for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened. Add garlic and sauté for an additional 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until fragrant. Transfer the vegetable mixture into the mixing bowl with the sausage. Add the thawed diced potatoes and 1 1/2 cups cheese to the mixing bowl with the sausage and veggies. Toss gently until evenly combined.
- Add the eggs. In a separate small bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, salt and black pepper until combined. Add the egg mixture to the potato mixture and toss gently to combine.
- Bake. Pour the mixture into a 9x13-inch* baking dish and top with the remaining 1/2 cup of shredded cheese. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 40 minutes. Remove the aluminum foil and bake for an additional 10-15 minutes until the potatoes in the center are cooked through. Transfer the baking dish to a wire rack.
- Serve. Serve warm, garnished with your favorite toppings, and enjoy!
Notes
Potatoes: If you don't have a bag of frozen diced hash brown potatoes, feel free to dice 20 ounces (nearly 2 pounds) of Yukon gold potatoes for this recipe.
Type of salt: I always cook and write my recipes with fine sea salt. But please note that if you are using iodized table salt, you only need to add about half as much.
Size of baking pan: This casserole will also fit in an 11 x 7-inch or 9 x 9-inch baking pan, if you prefer. It will likely just need an extra 5-10 minutes to cook.
Did you make this?Let me know how it turned out in the comments below!
I bet this could be cooked in muffin tin too for individual servings making it easier to reheat and go. Would just need to adjust cooking time.
Yes, we think you could definitely do that — great thinking! :)
Do you find that this casserole reheats well? I’m trying to make this and divide ho for a quick reheat and go before school in the morning.
Thanks!
Hi Sarah! Yes, this definitely reheats well. We hope you enjoy!
Have you ever made a double or triple batch in a larger pan? If so, do you know how long I would need to bake it?
Hi Marci! We haven’t tried that so it’s difficult to say. However, because of the larger volume, it will take longer, it’s just hard to say how much longer. We’d recommend setting the timer for 25 minutes and then checking it every few minutes after that. Definitely let us know how it goes! :)
just wondering, can you make this I had of time and mix it all together except for the 80s and keep it in the refrigerator overnight and then in the morning at the eggs and cook it
Hi Ruthann! Yes, we think it would be fine to mix everything together ahead of time (except for the milk and eggs). We hope you enjoy!
What is the nutritional breakdown? Why do you not make this information available? Looks good, just hoping it is not too caloric.
Hi Flo! We’re sorry but the reason we currently aren’t publishing nutrition facts on the site is the nutrition calculators available are not 100% accurate, and we never want to publish anything that might be misleading. However, a lot of our readers love the My Fitness Pal nutrition calculator, so feel free to try that for an estimate. We hope that helps!
I’m making this for dinner tonight and I cannot WAIT to try it!!
Awesome Katie — we hope you love it!
Make it real good by pouring sausage gravy over the top of it, my son went nuts eating this.
That’s awesome Paul — we’re so glad he loved it! :)
How many does this serve
Hi Charlotte! This makes about 8 servings. We hope you enjoy!
Yum these sounds absolutely delcious. Thanks for sharing.
Simon
Thanks Simon — we hope you enjoy! :)
My daughter married in September and moved to Wichita right afterwards. I live out in the country by Wamego and when I read your comments about trying to fit in all the things that we want to do whenever you are together and the spontaneous things that you used to beable to do, it was like tearing a page out of our book. Then there are the other people that she wants to see when she’s back and she’s also working on a dual master’s degree, so a lot of the time she’s either studying or sleeping. But, when I told her about my ideas to make some breakfast casseroles Mothers day and have my siblings and mom come out, she was doubly sorry she wasn’t going to be here this weekend. Our fist mother’s day apart. I’ll have to rub it in about how yummy the food was. Thanks for the recipe it sounds delicious.