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Easy Cheesy Breakfast Casserole Recipe | 1-Minute Video
Easy Breakfast Casserole with Sausage, Hashbrowns and Eggs
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: About 8 servings 1x
Description
This easy sausage, egg and hash brown breakfast casserole is simple to make, and always a crowd-pleaser!
Ingredients
Scale
- 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 9×13-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.
I was wondering if you could bake this with biscuits on top and make sausage gravy with the sausage drippings to pour over the top after its done cooking. Sounds good I just don’t know if it would work.
Hi Marcia, I’m not quite sure if that would work based on the bake time for the biscuits and the potato casserole. But if you give it a try, let me know!
I made this last weekend and it was wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
Looking forward to making this for tomorrow morning. Planning a busy and hard working day and need to start with a strong breakfast. My parents will be helping us install flooring this and next weekend. No bribing necessary, just a lot of love. My mom and I have been having lunch together at least once a week for over 10 years. It’s the best. Plan to continue with my girls.
By the way, I’m planning to make it tonight and cook it in the morning. Will the eggs at the bottom mess it up sitting all night? I’m not used to making things ahead.
Howdy from Lawrence! Am trying this for breakfast tomorrow because it doesn’t sound like I’m going to want to leave the house tomorrow due to the weather. Have you tried this with chorizo?
Hey in Lawrence! I have not tried it with chorizo, but imagine it would be amazing. Just be sure to drain the chorizo! :)
I made this tonight for my family of 4 and literally there wasnt a drop left. EXCELLENT!! thanks for sharing.
Just lost my mom. Good news is she lived with me.
You may think it would be difficult to move; but I know that you would NEVER regret it. In fact, if you don’t, you will probably regret it. Better to be 3 hours away from your friends than your mom. The fact is is that you only have one mom and once she is gone, she’s gone.
I made this yesterday and it is amazing! I enjoyed it as a casserole, but this morning I wrapped up the leftovers in some flour tortillas and it was even better that way. Thanks for the awesome recipe, I’m going to be making this one a lot! =)
I’m making this for breakfast on Christmas morning (in a few hours). My local store only had shredded potatoes, so I hope it still turns out good.
Can i cook and refrigerate overnight and warm in the morning?? I want to make it ahead of time then bring it for Christmas morning
I’m making this recipe right now :)