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This Smoked Sausage & Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole and perfect for your brunch menu and hearty enough to make for dinner.
Breakfast casseroles are one of my favorite things, but I don’t make them all that often. I guess I always think of them taking time…like needing to be made the night before. I prefer to make the kind that don’t need to be made ahead of time – because I never think of it early enough!
Smoked sausage is full of flavor, and the turkey kind is healthier for you than the regular one. We like this breakfast casserole topped with sour cream for a little extra oomph! It reminds me of a Hungarian dish my grandmother used to make, with sausage, bacon, potatoes, hard boiled eggs and sour cream.
Prep for this dish is as easy as it gets. Cook up some onions and peppers with the sausage so they are nice and tender. Layer shredded hashbrown potatoes (the frozen kind that have been thawed is great), eggs + milk, cheese and sausage and peppers. That’s kinda it. Pretty easy, right?
I give it a little swirl at this point to make sure it’s all nice and coated, but you probably don’t have too. The great thing is you can make this ahead of time if you want, but you can also bake it right away.
Another great thing? You can cut it up into squares and it freezes beautifully! It’s a great way to help get breakfast going for the whole week.
Smoked Sausage & Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
- 14 ounces smoked sausage diced
- 24 ounces frozen hash brown shredded potatoes, thawed
- 1 green bell pepper diced
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper diced
- 1/2 medium onion diced (about 1 cup)
- 12 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13" x 9" pan with cooking spray.
- In a large skillet oven medium-high heat, add olive oil, then onions and bell peppers. Cook, stirring often, for about 3 minutes. Add sausage and continue to cook and stir for another 3-4 minutes, or until vegetables are soft. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, salt and pepper until well combined.
- Layer thawed shredded potatoes in the bottom of the pan. (*tip - to thaw quickly, spread out on a cookie sheet and place in the oven while it heats and while you prepare the rest of the ingredients). Top with sausage and pepper mixture, then cheese, then eggs. Use a fork or spoon to stir ingredients together slightly to make sure that the eggs are evenly distributed.
- Bake in the 350 degree oven for 1 hour. Let cool for 10 minutes before serving.
- Can be stored in the refrigerator for 3-4 days in a tightly sealed container, or in the freezer for up to 2 months.
Notes
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For more delicious breakfast ideas, try these:
Ham & Cheese Croissant Breakfast Casserole
Creamy Blueberry Baked French Toast
Cheese & Sausage Stuffed Biscuits and Gravy
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Can you use sweet potatoes instead of hash browns
Sure!
I love this & I loved the useful tips too. I’m a fan! It was delicious!!!!!
Love the feedback Amy! Thanks for stopping by.
Do you cover it with tin foil when in oven
No need to cover. But if you are concerned about it browning too much you can cover it for the first 30-40 minutes and then uncover it.
Has anyone tried making this in a slow cooker?
In the smoked sausage casserole where does the milk come in to play, it’s in the ingredients but not in the instructions. I assume it goes in with the eggs…
Thanks, regardless we love this recipe, we like it for dinner.
The milk is whisked in with the eggs – sorry about that! It’s updated now.
Thanks for sharing your recipe Kristin! We love it!
I’m sure most people know where it should be added but I wanted to let you know that milk was included as an ingredient but not in the instructions to whisk with the eggs. I wasn’t going to say anything until I started thinking about where people could add it that would ruin the whole casserole. =)
Thanks again!
In the directions it says to layer cheese. However, cheese is not listed as an ingredient. Luckily I thought adding cheese would be yummy.
Yup it was missing, thanks for letting me know! I add about a cup of shredded sharp cheddar.