Breakfast Sausage, Egg & Cheese Casserole
As promised yesterday, I bring you another breakfast casserole today. This one is more of the savory variety, with a heavy dose of sausage and cheese.
Puffed pieces of bread, set with eggs, and full of sausage and melted cheese. It’s wonderful right out of the oven – browned, puffy and cheesy. It’s a great complement to a sweeter offering, such as the French toast casserole, so you can enjoy a piece of each! Yet another feast-worthy breakfast.
I have always wanted to host a Christmas brunch, maybe one of these days! I’m thinking a couple of breakfast casseroles, some scones, monkey bread, cinnamon rolls, and of course… mimosas!
What are your Christmas traditions?
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Breakfast Sausage, Egg & Cheese Casserole
Ingredients
- 9 eggs
- 9 slices of Italian bread, about an inch thick, crusts removed, cubed
- 1 pound (453.59 g) breakfast sausage
- ¾ cup (81 g) shredded Swiss cheese
- ¾ cup (84.75 g) shredded cheddar cheese
- ¾ cup (183 ml) milk
- 1½ teaspoons (1.5 teaspoons) salt
Instructions
- Crumble and cook the sausage according to package directions; drain and set aside.
- Lightly whisk together the eggs until combined. Mix in all other ingredients, and then fold in sausage.
- Pour the mixture into a greased 9×13-inch baking pan. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- The next day, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Bake, uncovered for 45 minutes. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving.
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This is delicious. I do have a question on your nutritional information. How many cups/ounces/grams is in the serving you have the nutritional data on?
This breakfast casserole is simply delicious and so easy to assemble!! My hubby and I love it, but need to ask, can I cut into servings, wrap each one separate, and then freeze? Sometimes, hubby likes something he can just grab out of freezer, pop in microwave and eat away!
Thanks for your great recipies!!
Hi Jackie, Yes, I think it would freeze and reheat wonderfully!
Can this be baked ahead of time and then heated up a day later?
This is so good! I have found my go to breakfast casserole.Â
I have for some reason been wanting breakfast casserole lately. I might give this one a try. Â Can I leave the bread out?Â
Hi Jamie, The bread helps soak up the eggs; you can leave it out but it would basically be a baked omelet. If you’re okay with that, then go ahead!
Can I make this up two days ahead of time? Serving it the morning of my daughter’s wedding and won’t have time to make the day before?
Hi Sandra, I haven’t done that, my only concern would be that the bread would break down totally. I would just try it ahead of time and make sure it’s okay before making it for the big day! And congratulations to your daughter! :)
I just can’t believe how great it tastes, the whole family loves this new breakfast. I’ve added a little bacon to the mix and it turned out even better (we’re huge bacon fans). Thanks for sharing!
This is all I’m going to say.. me and my husband just can’t get enough of this, we’ve been making this every morning for the past week.. haha! Thanks for sharing Michelle!
So thrilled to hear you love it so much! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review, xo
That looks delicious! I love every ingredient in this. Perfect!!!!!!
i like food, i can’t skip breakfast so your information is useful for me. thanks so much.
It looks delicious, I will make it for my family. Hope thay will love it. Thank you so much for your sharing!
This is really great recipe for breakfast. It look delicious and easy to prepare.
Thank for share !
I want to give it a try. It looks so yummy. It can be a perfect breakfast for Sunday morning. I’m not good at cooking so I feel lucky to find your recipe today. I still have enough time to practice cooking it ’till Christmas. Thank you!
This looks not hard to make but so delicious. I will save your recipe and try to make it for my kids. Hope they will love it. Thank you so much for your sharing!
Have you ever frozen it before baking? Wanting to make for a freezer meal club. Thx!
Hi Kari, I have not frozen it before baking; I’m not sure how it would work with the eggs.
I made this lastnight and had it for brunch today! It’s excellent. My husband raves about his moms breakfast casseroles, so I decided to try to make this one and he loved it! The only thing I changed was I used a 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Just a personal preference as sausage tastes salty to me.
If I made this late friday night would it still be good to cool on Sunday morning??? Thanks!!!
Hi Jamie, I don’t think I would let it sit that long before baking it. I’d stick to assembling it the day before.
When you say Italian bread- is that a loaf or a baguette or what kind of Italian bread do you use? Thanks, this looks delicious!
Hi Mary, I just buy a regular loaf of Italian bread from the grocery store deli. It’s not a baguette.
On Christmas Eve I throw a breakfast casserole together similar to this, except the kids don’t like the bread on the bottom. I have started using hashbrown patties or just southern hash brown potatoes. The kids love this as it reminds them of a farmer’s omlet with everything. I also make the sticky buns ahead of time. Christmas morning I pull out both pre-made dishes, set the oven at 350 and after 30 minutes, they both are done with little work at all. We have some fresh fruit and juice and we are ready until our early dinner of Prime Rib. Yum!
This was a big hit with my husband’s family! It was delicious!
I love that this is made with bread and not refrigerated crescent rolls. It sounds fantastic and I adore the McDonalds Sausage Egg McMuffin, but I don’t get them very often.
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My mom makes a very similar brunch casserole. No Swiss cheese, plus about 1/2 – 1 tsp ground mustard (depending on just how many guests she’s expecting). When I make it, I usually include a dash of garlic and onion powders, plus a bit of paprika. I also like to include a bit of baking powder…it seems to help the eggs fluff up a bit more after the overnight in the fridge.
I made something like this Christmas morning, except I used bacon, and included fresh spinach, and I used yummy bakery-fresh onion rolls for the bread. I served it with some fresh fruit; it was the perfect holiday breakfast!
I made this for Christmas morning!! I loved that I could whip it up the night before, and just pop it into the oven while everyone was opening presents! It was delicious! For sure making it next Christmas (and many times in between!) Thank you!!!
ah, this looks good, i should give it a try!
Love this recipe! What a beautiful picture too! Merry Christmas!
I just have to say that when I saw this recipe, I knew it would would be breakfast Christmas morning! I made it with croissants instead……so delicious!!!! It was a huge hit!!
Delicious! It’s also brilliant that you bake so many sweet things through the year that you’re bringing us breakfast casseroles for Christmas! No wonder you’re such a rock star!
This sounds delish! I am planning on making it and your baked french toast casserole with praline topping for Christmas this year. I can’t wait to try them out. I hope they are as good as they look. If so, they will be a new tradition at my house.
Merry Christmas to all who read this!
We’re big scones eaters on Christmas morning! It at least holds us over until we can get through the present and hit brunch time!
My family’s Christmas tradition is monkey bread and homemade hot chocolate for breakfast on Christmas morning. Can not wait until Sunday morning:).
This looks like a good thing to make for my relatives when they are at my house next week! Yay! I don’t have to think about breakfast anymore!
Our tradition has always been cinnamon rolls (the canned kind, not the homemade variety). This year we’re still making cinnamon rolls for my dad’s sake, but us girls are making an overnight french toast.
YAY I was hoping for a breakfast casserole recipe :) Thanks!
Mmm, I love that there is bread in this cheesy casserole! Sounds amazing!
What a great breakfast idea and the leftovers would be awesome for an easy dinner. Michelle,wishing you a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2012. Thank you for all the great recipe ideas, and looking forward to more in 2012.
Thank you Annie, same to you and your family!
Now you are talking! :)
This casserole pretty much covers all the basic food groups: meat, cheese and bread! I’m in!
Oh yum! This looks good and I love the idea that you can make it the night before. Oh and thanks allot! Now that you mentioned an Egg McMuffin, now I want one! :)
This reminds me of Christmas! My family makes the same breakfast every year – egg, sausage and cheese casserole and monkey bread.
yummm, i love this — i have also done it with other breakfast meats and different cheeses…it also travels well, stays warm for quite some time and still tastes good at room temp, i have taken something similar to work before too!
I have been making a similar recipe for years and it is always on my Christmas brunch menu. I add a some ground mustard hot sauce just in case the sausage is not spicy enough.
I do something like this every Christmas-but I use brie & bacon instead of sausage and the other cheeses.
Yummmmy! I tried this and it came out great. I’m sending this to all my firends so they can enjoy it too.
Yum! This looks better than anything I’ve ever seen from Mickie D’s!
I had that exact same craving a few weeks back and your wonderful buttermilk biscuit with some egg and spicy breakfast sausage gave me the perfect fix so I am taking the opportunity of this post to thank you!!! You make me want to make those biscuit a Sunday tradition!!! I absolutely LOVE your blog, you have so many wonderful recipes!