Company's Coming Breakfast Casserole

Submitted by pammyowl

"This can be made ahead and refrigerated overnight if you like, then baked the next day. Great for a weekend when you have lots of stuff going on!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 45mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 453.59 g sausage (I use Jimmy Dean)
• 680.38 g frozen hash browns, with onion and peppers
• 6 eggs
• 473.18 ml milk
• 4.92 ml ground mustard
• 4.92 ml salt
• 1 tsp.black pepper
• 0.25 ml hot sauce (optional)
• 226.79 g cheddar cheese, shredded (more for the topping if desired)

directions

1. Set oven to 350°F.
2. Brown the sausage, drain. I like to put it in a food processor and hit pulse a few times, I don't like the larger pieces but don't go so far as to make a paste!
3. Whisk the eggs and seasonings in a bowl,.
4. add milk.
5. Spray a 9x13" pan with cooking spray.
6. Layer the ingredients as follows; all the sausage, then a layer of cheese, then half the bag of hash browns, then the cheese and the rest of the hash browns. Pour the egg/milk/ seasonings mixture over all.
7. Cover with foil bake for one hour, check for doneness, mine usually take a bit longer, but everyone's oven is different.
8. When done top with more shredded cheese and let rest for 10 minutes.
9. Serve with fruit salad for a delightful brunch!

Reviews

[Marie O.]

2 cups of milk. My husband and I both agreed that it sounded like too much, but we followed the recipe anyways. It does taste good, but the milk made it too soupy in my opinion. It definitely took more than an hour.... our oven does run a little low. After the hour was finished i turned it up to 375 (should've done that in the first place) for almost another half hour.

 

[rosie316]

I pre-mixed this late last night, and let it sit in fridge over night to bake this morning. This turned out just lovely! I followed the recipe exactly, and I would not change a thing. I used a 1# tube of 'regular' Jimmy Dean sausage (although I thought about trying a flavored one). This makes a ton... but that's okay. Our neighbors across the street just got home very last night from their trip to China (which is why I prepped this at midnight). We had them and our other 2 neighbors all over for breakfast this morning, and we still have leftovers (now hubby can just 'nuke' a couple slices tomorrow morning to eat on his way to work)! I'm thinking this would be great for a Mothers' Day Brunch... HMMMM? Thank you for posting a very easy and delicious breakfast entree.

 

[diner524]

Nice breakfast casserole and so great that you can assemble it the day before you plan to serve it. I made 1/4 of the recipe, used Jimmy Dean sausage, 1 regular egg and the rest used "Egg Beaters", a combo of cheddar and Monterey Jack, "Simply Hash Browns" and I added my own chopped onion and red bell pepper. I did add the optional hot sauce, and did a couple of dashes, but I couldn't even tell it was in the casserole. So if you are making the full casserole, suggest using a lot more then a dash of the hot sauce if you want a little zip. I served mine with a fresh fruit salad and blueberry muffins for a very enjoyable brunch!! Thanks for sharing the recipe. Made for Please Review My Recipe Tag Game.