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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. (They’re a key ingredient in my Hashbrown Casserole too!)
- 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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I made this for Easter breakfast and boy was it a hit! Everyone wanted the recipe. I will be making this regularly, not for just special occasions.
Very good, but mine took nearly two hours to fully cook
Haven’t tasted it yet cuz it’s been in the oven 90minutes. Looks good but won’t make again.
Very easy to make and conveniently fast. My family loved it. Will make it again. Thank you for the recipe
This casserole is easy and delicious! I made it for Easter brunch and it was a hit. Next time ( and trust me, there will be a next time) I will try the spicy sausage because my family loves a little heat. A must try!
Based on the comments I thought this would be good, but it has no flavor. Add a block of cream cheese and actually cook the hash brown first and add some garlic powder and you’ll have a good casserole.
It was delicious and I will definitely be making it again!
I made it this morning, I did however chopped up my peppers and potatoes last night and put them in a freezer lock bag till this morning. I added this to my sausage after almost done cooking, just until all was a bit soft. I mixed all that with the cheese and followed the recipe from there. Oh, I did 7 eggs, as that’s what I had left in a cartoon. I also used a bit more cheese and a tiny pinch of Thyme. Severing with fresh strawberries and blackberries. It smells delish! I’ll be back to update how it came out. Thank you so much for the recipe. So easy.
Oooo myyy gooodness!! Soooo good! Thank you again!
Made this for dinner. Was delicious, will make this again soon.
This is the easiest and cheesiest breakfast casserole. I love breakfast dishes anytime of day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner or leftovers as a snack! This casserole is a keeper!
I liked this recipe a lot ! I found that it needed a lot more time in the over than indicated, when I removed the tinfoil the first time it was basically liquid still, and I had to cook it about 30 minutes without the foil ! So next time I may increase to 375 and see what happens : I used sweet potato tots for my hashbrowns and that was yummy !
This recipe is great. I think that because there are less eggs than other breakfast casseroles makes it work so well. I added onions, bell peppers, and mushroom with my breakfast.
Easy and absolutely delicious!
Could this recipe be halved for a 8×8 baking dish?
Sure! I do this all the time!
Could you mix this together and cook the next morning
Yes I think that would work – try out overnight breakfast casserole too! https://allthingsmammacom.bigscoots-staging.com/overnight-breakfast-casserole/
It freezes well. It’s a great thing to make on Sunday and then cut into portions for the week.
wonderful!! easy to make!!
Made this breakfast casserole, we loved it! It’s simple to make and delicious.
I have made this recipe so many times. Making it right now for my Sunday School class. I generally always add chopped onions and chopped green chilis to give it a little kick. Good recipe!