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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 it’s
- 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.
(This Crockpot Cheesy Potatoes recipe is always a hit too!)
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. (You’ll also love this Cheesy Hashbrown Egg Casserole!)
- 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, I’ve 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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Made this with Turkey sausage and add a tsp of Tony Chachere’s Cajun seasoning for a little kick and it turned out phenomenal!! Definitely will use this recipe again.
Can this be done in a crockpot?
Baked for 45 min. Took it out still soupy regret to 2 cups milk, will not do that again!!
Maybe next time 1-1 1/2 cups milk. Was not to pleased with this recipe.
I have made this recipe two times now and my family loves it. Because I have a cholesterol problem I tried it with egg beaters, but I reduced the milk to 1 cup and it came out great.
I have used this recipe multiple times and have never read through the comments before. I’m very surprised to learn that some people find it soupy? I do alter it a bit. I add a couple tbsp of salsa, and some spinach, but otherwise follow the recipe to the letter. It turns out perfect every time and I’ve had nothing but compliments from our guests. Thank you for this GREAT, basic recipe, that is so easy to add to!
So I changed quite a few things since I didn’t want the bake to take too long, instead of using 1 pan I used 2 circular Pyrex bowls (it’s just me and my husband). I added 1 sweet bell pepper half an onion with a little garlic and sautéed that together on the skillet after browning the breakfast sausage. I don’t have frozen hash browns only normal russet potatoes so I took half of that to a cheese grinder and made some shredded potatoes. In addition to the cheese I did half mozzarella and half cheddar. I only used 5 eggs and I didn’t use 2 cups of milk either I just poured a little into our bowls – probably about 2 tbsp each and mixed it all together. I baked it about 35 minutes and it came out like a true casserole, not soupy at all.
I added a few things like diced bell and red pepper and diced onion, 1 tsp minced garlic. I used a half pint of heavy cream instead of milk. I also used Cabot extra shard cheddar cheese. It was delicious and my grandkids loved it! I always place the pyrex dish on a cookie sheet because I had one explode in the oven a number of years ago and I think it impeded the cook time a bit. So it was in, covered, for 62 minutes and 20 minutes uncovered in 350 degree oven.
Thanks for sharing your recipe! I will be making this again when we have company and I want to scale it down for just me so I can have it more regularly but not so much at one time!
We made this recipe for our community breakfast. It is easy, adaptable with ham or bacon as well as the sausage to offer a choice. It was delicious.
I made this but did a couple things different after reading reviews. Instead of 2 c milk, I did about 1/2 c milk and 3/4 c low fat sour cream to thicken it up. I also saved some of the cheese to create a layer of cheese on top instead of mixing all 2 c into the casserole itself in the beginning. Cooked same time as instructions and was a bit!
Follow the directions and it’s perfect!! I did have to use cream only thing I had, and I also missed the part about stirring the sausage, cheese and hash browns but it turns out perfect!
45 min , I did convection setting, then uncover and cooked 10 more. I made two at the same time and both are perfect, look beautiful! Thank you!!
Smiles!!!!
Well it turned out great.only change was thawed has browns and it was wonderful. Thanks for the recipe.
This sounds pretty good, so I think I will TRY and make this for my wife when she wakes up, but I also think I’m gunna make sum gravy to pour over it when I get it on plate, and for those who don’t know ,YES COUNTRY GRAVY!!!! Here in the country we just call it gravy, kinda like Brazil nuts in Brazil, LOL THEY JUST NUTZ. Y’ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY AND WEEKEND
A question – I used thawed shredded hash browns. So I cut the cook time to 30 minutes. I’m about to check it. But as I’m reading it looks like it will be soupy. So I will see thanks for all the comments
Throw away all of your old bland breakfast casserole recipes. This is the only one you’ll ever want after you taste it. I made it EXACTLY as written and it was unbelievable. It has lots of possible options for small changes to suit varying tastes so it will be a hit for everyone. Finally, a breakfast casserole where the main ingredient isn’t bread or english muffins etc. Those things do nothing but take up room and rob you of the taste of really good ingredients! Thank you!!!
I don’t normally like breakfast casseroles, but this one was delicious! And very easy to make. I’m not a great cook either, and I loved the way this one came together in no time, with little effort other than cracking a few eggs, browning the sausage, and mixing everything together. I even forgot the step of mixing the hashbrowns, sausage, cheese, and eggs – they were in layers. It didn’t matter a bit. I’ll definitely make this again.
Way too much milk. Turned out like soup.
I used water instead of milk and it turned out great.
Excellent recipe
So is it supposed to be half of a 15oz pack (so 7.5 oz) or half of a 30oz pack (so 15oz) of frozen hash browns? I assume half of a 28 to 30 oz pack to equal 15oz total?