This Easy Breakfast Casserole recipe comes together in no time for a weekend breakfast! Combine eggs with sausage, frozen hashbrown potatoes, and cheese for an easy breakfast or brunch casserole!
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day! Give me all the waffles, pancakes, and biscuits and I’m one happy lady!
Breakfast Casserole Recipe
Breakfast Casserole isn’t a stranger around All Things Mamma! Our Overnight Breakfast Casserole has been a favorite for years.
But, If you’re anything like me, sometimes you don’t know the day before what you want to eat the next morning. I mean, I am human…right?! haha! So, this Easy Breakfast Casserole gives you all the goodness faster! Really, the only difference is that you’re leaving off the crust from the overnight casserole AND you’re not chilling it the night before.
Why This Recipe The BEST
A delicious and hearty breakfast casserole that is the BEST ever and super simple to make!! have several breakfast casserole recipes here on All Things Mamma but this recipe is consistently #1. And not just the #1 casserole – the #1 recipe on the entire site! WOW!! Everyone loves this casserole because itโs
- Easy and cheap
- Hearty and full of delicious breakfast goodness!
- Can be made ahead or the morning of
This classic breakfast casserole always turns out. Promise. Packed full of hash browns, eggs, sausage, and cheese it explodes with flavor!
Your family will love this breakfast casserole for Christmas morning, a weekend brunch, or even a weekday treat! It is perfect for baking ahead of time or making it the morning of.ย
The Best Easy Breakfast Casserole Recipe
You just need to keep a few simple ingredients on hand to whip this baby up anytime you need a dose of comfort! It’s also the perfect breakfast to whip up on Sunday and enjoy during the week with just a little microwave action.
NOTE: Updated baking times.
Recipe Ingredients:
For the entire recipe ingredients, see the recipe card below.
- Sausage – I like spicy breakfast sausage for this recipe, but mild is good if you have littles in your house.
- Eggs – whisked together
- Shredded Cheese – I like cheddar but you can use your favorite
- Frozen Hashbrowns – you can use hashbrown potatoes or shredded.
- Milk – whole milk is best.
Substitutions:
- Breakfast Meat: Ham, bacon, or turkey sausage would be perfect!
- Potatoes: tater tots or shredded hashbrowns would be fine to use.
- Cheese: Colby Jack, Pepper Jack, Swiss cheese, or Monterey Jack are good substitutions for the casserole.
- Milk: Mix it up! Add half and half or heavy cream in place of 1 cup of milk.
- Veggies: mix in mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, broccoli or spinach.
How To Make Breakfast Casserole:
- Prepare: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Brown the Sausage: Crumble sausage into a skillet on the stove and brown completely. Remove from heat.
- Whisk the Eggs: In a large bowl, mix eggs and milk together and whisk well.
- Add seasonings: Add salt and pepper to the egg mixture and stir.
- Mix ingredients all together: To a 9×13 dish sprayed with cooking spray, add frozen hashbrowns, sausage, and cheese.
- Add to the baking dish: Pour the egg/milk mixture into the dish.
- Bake: Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes – covered with foil.
- Rest: Remove the foil and bake for about 10-15 minutes more until the dish is bubbly and cheese is melted.
What to Serve with a Delicious Breakfast Casserole
Make this a complete meal is easy by adding a few breakfast favorites to your menu. This breakfast casserole is perfect alone but if you are looking for some side ideas, Iโve got you covered! Here are some ideas of what can go along with this breakfast casserole recipe during the holiday season.
- Fruit: Fruit Salad
- Bread: Biscuits
- Potatoes: tater tot casserole
- Meat: Bacon, sausage or ham
- Pancakes: fluffy pancakes or blueberry pancakes
- Waffles: homemade waffle recipe
- Muffins: blueberry muffins, Bisquick blueberry muffins
Breakfast Casserole Tips For Success
Make ahead: You can easily make this casserole the night before and bake in the morning. Just cover in the fridge and take out while your oven is preheating. You may need to increase the baking time by 10-15 minutes.
Baking Tip: This casserole is done when the edges are set and lightly brown and the center only jiggles slightly. Make sure there is no “watery” eggs in the center before removing from the oven.
Storage: Cover the entire casserole with foil or a lid to your baking dish and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Reheat: Reheat in the microwave.
Freeze: This casserole can be frozen. First bake your breakfast casserole and once it has completely cooled, place in an airtight container or ziplock bag. When ready to warm up, place in oven and bake at 350 degrees until warmed through about 20 to 25 minutes.
Look at all that cheesy goodness! Doesn’t it make you want to have a piece right now?! Well, what are you waiting for?
Now is a GREAT time to make up this Easy Breakfast Casserole to enjoy with a side of fruit!
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Easy Breakfast Casserole Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound Sausage
- 6 Eggs
- 2 cups Milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 package Frozen Hashbrowns 15oz
- 2 cups Cheddar Cheese shredded – I like cheddar but you can use your favorite
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Crumble sausage into a skillet on the stove and brown completely. Remove from heat.1 pound Sausage
- In a large bowl, mix eggs and milk together and whisk well.6 Eggs, 2 cups Milk
- Add salt and pepper to this mixture and stir.1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- To a 9×13 dish, add frozen hashbrowns, sausage, and cheese – stir together in the dish1/2 package Frozen Hashbrowns, 2 cups Cheddar Cheese
- Pour the egg/milk mixture into the dish.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes – covered with foil. Remove the foil and bake for about 10-15 minutes more until the dish is bubbly and cheese is melted.
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I made a triple batch of the easy breakfast casserole for a church breakfast. It was simple, easy, and delicious. There wasn’t any left to bring home!
I got a little nervous after I put this in the oven and started reading comments. I fully expected a soupy mess but it was quite the contrary, I used bacon instead of sausage and followed the recipe exactly. I did add a few seasonings garlic and onion powder salt and pepper. I have a gas oven and baked it accordingly. My family cleaned their plates and throughly enjoyed brunch today. Thanks for the recipe
Can this casserole be made in muffin pan?
I make one on Sunday and divide it into portions to go in refrig. I just warm one each morning. I also add some bacon bits with the sausage.
So good! We used Southwest hash browns with bell peppers and onions. So much flavor.
EXCELLENT!!!! Easy to make.
This is a good recipe but it calls for way too much milk. I didnโt think two cups sounded right but I went with it anyways. When my casserole was now is looked good on top but when I cut into it it was all soup. So I spooned out the extra juices and put it back in for another 30 min. Hopefully the eggs will cook without burning everything else. Next time I will try one cup.
I made two of these casseroles. I used frozen diced potatoes and put them in the refrig the night before. In the 1st casserole, I sauteed cut-up pork sausage links and diced onions and it cooked in the time suggested and was very good.
The 2nd casserole had diced ham that I first warmed in the microwave and drained the excess liquid. This ham version took about 25 minutes more time to cook and I increased the temp to 360 degrees once I took the other casserole out of the oven. Next time I will add more seasoning since the potatoes didn’t really absorb any flavors.
I am confused. It says look for updated cool time. I scrolled to 2020 comments and donโt see a revision. Soooo not sure what to do?
Even with the updated cooking times I still had to cook for over 1 ยฝ hours. However, we were patient and waited for it to cook properly and it was delicious.
Did you start with a cold dish? Frozen ingredients? Lower temp? All ovens are different so times could change.
Hi! Looks good, tastes good, but needed nearly double the cook time and I upped the temp to 450.
Just what I was looking for! This recipe is so fast to assemble and easy to follow.. not to mention simply delicious. The baking times in a gas oven worked perfectly for us. Thanks for helping me make something easy for my dad to wake up to at 5 am!
Haven’t tasted it yet but the recipe should be updated with at least cooking in the oven at 400-425ยฐ for an hour or so . Very disappointing, I would have set aside more time for this.
Great! I made this without any potatoes (dad can’t eat them. I used 10 eggs, and a mixture of milk and half & half, plus I added some finely diced mushrooms. After reading the comments on cook time, I increased the oven temp to 400 degrees and cooked for 45 mins. It was perfect! It was juicy and not dry (I think this can happen with too many potatoes). Dad and hubby love it! Thanks!! Will definitely make again!
I love this recipe and it’s very easy and very low cost to make for large group.
Making this for my daughter on Mom day.