Sausage Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole

Ingredients

• 1 lb / 450 g Bulk breakfast sausage
• 1 small Yellow onion, diced
• 24 oz / 680 g Frozen shredded hash browns, thawed
• 10 Large eggs
• 1½ cups Milk
• 2 cups, divided Sharp cheddar, shredded
• ½ tsp Kosher salt
• ½ tsp Black pepper
• ½ tsp Garlic powder

Method

1. Heat the oven to 350°F / 175°C. Butter a 9-by-13-inch dish.
2. Brown the sausage and onion in a skillet over medium, breaking the meat into small pieces, until the sausage is no longer pink. Pour off the fat.
3. Squeeze the thawed hash browns in a clean towel if they are dripping. Wet potatoes make a soggy bake. Scatter them in the dish, then spread the sausage over them.
4. Whisk the eggs, milk, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Pour that over the potatoes. Scatter 1½ cups of the cheddar on top.
5. Bake 45–55 minutes, until the center is set and a knife comes out without liquid egg. Add the rest of the cheddar for the last 5 minutes if you want it melted on top. Rest 10 minutes before cutting.
6. To bake it in the morning, assemble the dish through the first cheese layer, cover, and refrigerate overnight. Bake it cold, and plan on about 10 extra minutes.

Nutrition

Kitchen estimate only, not lab-verified. A hearty breakfast bake. Sausage and cheese are the salty, fatty parts.

Guest diet / allergy swaps

Short kitchen notes for guests. A fuller gluten-free or dairy-free ingredient list, when we have one, is in the panels below.

• Low-sodium friendly

  Use a lower-sodium breakfast sausage if you can find one, skip the added salt, and use 1 cup of cheese instead of 2. Taste a crumble of the sausage before you season the eggs.

• Gluten-free style

  The casserole has no flour. Some frozen hash browns are coated or packed with wheat. Read that bag, and the sausage.

  • United States: There is no flour in the dish. Some frozen hash browns are coated with wheat. Read that bag, and the sausage.
  • United Kingdom: Plain hash browns and eggs are the bake. Check the potato bag and the sausage for wheat.

• No pork

  Brown turkey breakfast sausage, or use Homestyle Seasoned Ground Turkey, and drain it the same way.

• Dairy-free

  Leave the cheddar out and use an unsweetened plant milk in the eggs. The bake will still set. It will not taste like the cheese version.

• No sausage

  Skip the meat and add a sautéed bell pepper with the onion. It becomes a potato-and-egg bake.