Easy Egg Sausage & Hashbrown Casserole

Easy Egg Sausage & Hashbrown Casserole

This simple Breakfast Sausage Casserole with Hashbrowns makes a hearty dish that everyone loves. This comes from an old Amish recipe that bakes up creamy from the cottage cheese and extra cheesy from the cheddar cheese.

Course Breakfast, brunch, dinner

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 1

rest time 10

Total Time 1 25

Servings slices

Calories 439kcal

Author Jere' Cassidy

Equipment

Ingredients

1 pound ground sausage
20 ounce shredded hash brown potatoes I used Simply Potatoes, this should be four cups
1 ½ cups small curd cottage cheese
2 cup cheddar cheese shredded
1 small onion peeled and cut in half
1 red pepper you will need about 3 ounces chopped
6 large eggs
parsley optional
salt and pepper

Instructions

Heat the oven to 350° F. Use an 11 x 7 baking dish that has been greased.
On a cutting board, core and seed the red pepper, then slice and chop into small dice to make 3 ounces. Dice the onion. If using the parsley, chop the leaves on the cutting board and set it aside.
In a large skillet add the sausage and cook over medium heat breaking it up into chunks as it cooks. Before the sausage is completely cooked, add the chopped onions and continue cooking the sausage until browned.
In a large mixing bowl add the eggs and whisk to break them up. Add the shredded potatoes, cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, red pepper, salt, and pepper. Stir this egg mixture to combine.
Stir in the sausage until combined, then pour this mixture into the baking pan.
Bake uncovered for 50 minutes to an hour, until the top is browned and the center of the casserole is set.
The center of the casserole will be a bit jiggly when done, but will continue cooking once removed from the oven.
Let the casserole sit for 10 minutes before serving.
Cover any leftovers with plastic wrap and store them in the refrigerator for up to five days.

Notes

This casserole can be made and bake then reheated for later.

Freeze the unbaked casserole

You can freeze this casserole unbaked. Just mix the ingredients and put them in the pan. Cover with plastic wrap and then with foil then freeze. When ready to bake, let the casserole thaw and bake as instructed above.

Freeze the baked casserole

Or, go ahead and bake this tasty hash brown sausage casserole, let it cool then cut into squares. Wrap each square in foil or place it in a freezer container, this makes it easy to have individual servings for a quick meal.

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