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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!
Could I whip up my own homemade hash browns in place of the frozen?
Yes, most definitely! We hope you enjoy this! :)
Terrific flavor! I did one-and-a-half this recipe and used 12 eggs to serve 10. It came out high and easy to cut (wasn’t loose like photo). Enough for everyone to have a hearty portion. Thanks for a sharing a great brunch option!
Awesome, so glad you all enjoyed it!
Hi, Could I make this in a large electric skillet?We
start camping at the end of April. I would like to make
this one morning for breakfast. The oven in our camper is too small and would not accommodate such
a large dish. Thankyou!!?
Hi Donna! We haven’t tried that, but we think it should probably work — we hope you enjoy and that you have a great trip!
Yum! I am terrible about trying something new on other people…just so you know, 30 people in my Sunday school class loved it! My only modification was using southern hash brown potatoes that already had onion, and green and red pepper! Thanks for the recipe! I will make it again!
Thanks for sharing with us, Lynnette — we’re so glad it was a hit with folks!
Hi, this was amazing last Christmas but this New Years I made it and must have used the wrong potatoes–they were wrong texture
Still a favorite recipe though! Is there any nutritional information on the recipe somewhere?
Hi Maggie, we’re glad you enjoy the recipe! Unfortunately though we are unsure of the nutrition facts/amount of calories in this recipe. We currently are not publishing nutrition facts on the site, as 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!
Easy and delicious! This was a winner and everyone in my family loved it. This is a winner and will be a regular in our house. Instacart forgot to deliver the hashbrowns so I took a chance and left them out. It was still incredible – made a nice low-carb option. Next time I’ll make a pan with hashbrowns for the family and one without for me. Thanks for the recipe – made me so happy to see even my picky eater take seconds.
Thanks, Maria — we’re so glad this was a hit with your family!
My family begs for me to make this casserole. It’s become a birthday and Christmas tradition to serve this. It is delicious! I use the shredded hashbrowns and it is AMAZING!
Thank you for sharing with us, Constance — we’re so happy you love the recipe! :)
I forgot the 1/3 cup milk. it is all mixed up in the refrigerator for tomorrow. Think it will make a difference or should I put it in.
We would mix it in if you can!
This looks so good! I have made many casseroles but this looks like the bomb. I have never seen the hot sausage in a recipe before and I bet this is what makes such a difference. I am going to make this tomorrow and I am already wishing it WAS tomorrow. Thank you for such a simple and awesome looking dish. I know my family likes well enough to say this one will be the standard at this home going forward!
Thank you, Dayna — we hope you can give this a try sometime soon! :)
If you make this the night before do you cook it the night before and just reheat in the morning or do you mix it all together, and refrigerate the night before, then cook the next day? Thinking of this for Christmas morning….
Hi Raechel! You can definitely make this the night before and just reheat it the next day — that’s what we’d advise (versus preparing it the night before and not baking until the next morning — things might get soggy). We hope you enjoy!