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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!
This was delicious! Used 7 eggs but stayed true to the recipe!
This is one of the easiest recipes I’ve learned. I would recommend it as one of the first casserole recipes for beginners to try out.
Great Recipe! I replaced the sausage with Chorizo for a little southwestern flare! Turned out wonderful! Gimme Some Oven never disappoints!
Love the receipe and my husband loved it even told me it was really good after breakfast and he almost never compliments or complains about what is cooked, you go by how much of it he eats.. just not him so when he does it is awesome! I changed the frozen potatoes to some fresh I needed to use…. 2 1/2 cups diced if anyone wants to know that. Thanks ?
I made this casserole for Christmas morning and it was a hit! I used shredded refrigerated hash browns (the whole bag) because that’s what I had and they worked well. I enjoyed the simplistic nature of this recipe and will make it again next year.
Made this for Christmas morning. Definitely a winner! Used breakfast sausage instead, yummy! Added an extra egg too.
It will be our new Christmas morning staple .
This is so easy and delicious! My family loves it!
This recipe was included in a list of breakfast casseroles that my husband— a brekkie fanatic— sent me. Turn out delicious! I did find that it took closer to an hour to cook, but that’s no problem. Was also tickled to see that the recipe comes from a fellow Wichitan!
Made it for meal prep for breakfast every morning to take to work. So good! The Italian sausage makes the flavors pop!
I used my cast iron skillet for onions and half the potatoes to cook almost completely. Bulk breakfast sausage cooked separately. Put together p in skillet, added 8 eggs, milk and cheese, roasted red pepper and a few pepper flakes. This is a really good and easy recipe that you can modify any way you want and it will be great!