Sausage and Egg Breakfast Casserole
Serves 12
Sausage & Egg Breakfast Casserole
Serves 12
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground Italian or breakfast sausage
- 6 slices of French bread sliced, toasted, cut into cubes
- 5 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups of milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 oz cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- 1 small 4 oz can roasted mild green chilies
Directions
1
Crumble sausage into a medium skillet. Cook over medium heat until evenly browned; then drain.
2
Place cubed French bread in a 9x13 pan. Place cooked sausage over the bread.
3
Mix eggs, milk, salt, green chilies, and red bell pepper together in a medium-sized bowl. Pour mixture over the bread and sausage. Sprinkle the top with cheese. Cover and place in fridge over night.
4
In the morning, cook on 350 degrees for 45-60 min covered. Remove the cover and cook another 30 minutes at 325 degrees.
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In our home, this sausage and egg breakfast casserole is a Christmas morning tradition we love. It’s such an easy make-ahead meal to prep the night before and put in the oven the next morning. Plus, I love that this basic recipe can be customized to different meats and veggie combos your family prefers. Italian sausage (or breakfast link sausage) is what we normally use. Ham or bacon would be yummy as well.
The recipe I’m sharing today uses a can of roasted mild green chilies and a diced red bell pepper. These are both optional, yet super delicious. Using French bread makes the casserole really fluffy and yummy. I love how easy this process is!
Sausage & Egg Breakfast Casserole
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Serves 12
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground Italian or breakfast sausage
- 6 slices of French bread sliced, toasted, cut into cubes
- 5 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups of milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 oz cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- 1 small 4 oz can roasted mild green chilies
Directions
1
Crumble sausage into a medium skillet. Cook over medium heat until evenly browned; then drain.
2
Place cubed French bread in a 9x13 pan. Place cooked sausage over the bread.
3
Mix eggs, milk, salt, green chilies, and red bell pepper together in a medium-sized bowl. Pour mixture over the bread and sausage. Sprinkle the top with cheese. Cover and place in fridge over night.
4
In the morning, cook on 350 degrees for 45-60 min covered. Remove the cover and cook another 30 minutes at 325 degrees.
Such delicious taste and texture!
This casserole comes out of the oven looking cheesy, bubbly, and simply amazing! The French bread chunks are my favorite. Our tradition is to stick this in the oven while opening gifts Christmas morning, and enjoy this while still in jammies!
Wishing you and your family a beautiful Christmas morning filled with peace, joy, and fantastic food!
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I just sat down from finishing getting our breakfast casseroles in the fridge for the morning.
These pictures are so amazing! Makes me want to eat everything that is posted!
Yum! Sounds good! I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas Collin! Thank you for all your hard work.
It looks really good…yum! Merry christmas to you and your family Collin:)
This does look really good. Thank you.
I need to try this! Delish!
I just made something similar to this today but instead of bread I used cooked hashbrowns. Can’t wait to eat it tomorrow!
Ahh…I’ve had this for Christmas breakfast every Christmas I can remember! My mom uses stale bread – sounds gross but it’s delicious!
Thanks for the recipe. Just got done making this… It’s in the fridge all ready for tomorrow! Merry Christmas to all! 🙂
You can use toast if you don’t have French bread. I toast the heels of a loaf of bread since no one eats those pieces anyway. We like add cilantro and some chili flakes for a little heat.
We make this (minus the chili’s and we use any bread cut in cubes and dried or toasted) every Christmas 🙂 sometimes with fruit salad or cinnamon rolls, too. My husband’s Grandmother started the Christmas tradition and we carried it along.
I made something almost identical this morning, only instead of using the french bread my recipe called for country style hash browns. Turned out delicious and was super filling!! 🙂
Hi! I love the idea of using hash browns instead of bread. Can you add frozen hash browns? Do you remember the amount you used? TIA!
I make mine with hashbrowns but the simply potato bagged ones. I usually toss them with melted butter, salt and pepper before putting in the casserole. If you use frozen I’d defrost and remove some of the water from them.
Yum! Great idea 💡
Perfect, thank you!!
Read this last minute decided to take a chance: used everything except chilies and added an egg and extra bread (french) with maple sausage- was simply amazing! Never had it before, was inexpensive and very filling! Thank you!
Excellent!
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Yes!! I would like to know this too!!
We do leftover sausage stuffing and scrambled eggs sautéed in a pan for breakfast – I should try it baked this way. Would be way better!
Oh yum! Great idea 💡
I make this every year. My nephew calls it Egg cake. Lol. I have to make triple batch bc everyone LOVES it. It’s super easy and so good!
Awesome! So yum
Only 5 eggs? Doesn’t seem like near enough for a big pan…isn’t it more bread than egg? Does anyone add more eggs?
My recipe calls for 6 eggsand a few more pieces of bread. The 2 cups of milk that you add makes for plenty of liquid for the bread to absorb. We used any kind of breakfast meat (ham cubes, bacon, sausage), onions, and green peppers. Yum!
I still have alot of these ingredients leftover from thanksgiving day prep. Definitely will try this recipe 😊🌶🥕🍅🧀
Perfect! Thanks for sharing 👍
I do a similar casserole for Christmas and I like to top it with green onions and cherry tomatoes at the end.