HASH BROWN AND SAUSAGE CASSEROLE
This Hash Brown and Sausage casserole is great to serve for a brunch with grits, gravy and biscuits. Your family and guests will love this sausage breakfast casserole. It makes a wonderful holiday breakfast, too! This recipe is a favorite of my family. Easy to make and the perfect way to start the day! Reheats well too!
Hash Brown and Sausage Casserole ingredients needed:
Frozen hash browns, regular or Southern style
Onion
Green pepper
Sausage or ham (could also use bacon or smoked sausage or any meat you like.
Eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
Garlic powder, Optional
Shredded cheddar cheese
Oil
I have made this breakfast casserole both in 10 inch iron skillet and a 9X9 dish. You can easily double the ingredients and make it in a 9X13 for a larger crowd.
Breakfast casseroles are great for any holiday gathering as they feed quite a few people. We love this one with sausage but you could honestly use any meat you desire. You could also serve this in tortillas, topped with salsa and sour cream. Delicious! Super versatile dish. If you love hash browns check out our Cheesy Hash Brown Casserole. It’s also great for any gathering.
“I made this last month for a family get together brunch. Everybody wanted the recipe. It was so good! Thanks” – Sherri
“We loved this delicious breakfast casserole! So easy to make and reheats well too. I made it for our Christmas breakfast, we had some leftover and it was just as good the next day!” – Kathleen
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Hash Brown and Sausage Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 lbs. frozen hash browns regular or Southern style
- 1/2 onion chopped
- 1/2 green pepper chopped
- 1 lbs. sausage or ham cooked (could also use bacon or smoked sausage or any meat you like)
- 5 eggs beaten
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder Optional
- 3/4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- Oil for cooking hash browns
Instructions
- Heat oil, add hash browns, onion and peppers. Cook till potatoes begin to brown. Spray 9 x 9 baking dish or 10 inch iron skillet with cooking spray. Spread potato mixture in pan, top with cooked sausage or ham.
- Pour beaten eggs over all and season with salt and pepper and garlic. Gently stir to coat all ingredients with eggs. Sprinkle with cheese. Can refrigerate overnight and then bake.
- Bake uncovered at 375 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes. Makes 6 servings.
Notes
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You might also like my garlic cheese grits and buttermilk biscuits.
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I made this for our church Easter breakfast; doubling amounts. Very good! I think next time I will mix everything together instead of layering, to give the hash browns more flavor. Thanks for the recipe!
Can you bake this in the oven in a 9 x 13 pan? or 9 x 9″ pan?
Hi, we address this in the post. It says “I have made this breakfast casserole both in 10 inch iron skillet and a 9X9 dish. You can easily double the ingredients and make it in a 9X13 for a larger crowd.” Hope that helps!
Can this be halved for just 2 old geezers? (Empty nesters)
Sure!
I will check it out Brenda. So glad you enjoy the recipes! Hope you had a great Christmas.
I made is and froze it.. now am wondering best way to re heat.have you ever froze this before?
I have not frozen it but I would put back in the oven on low maybe around 300 and just let it reheat, Cheryl.
Can this be made and cooked at the same time or does it NEED to sit over night?
Yes, you can cook it immediately, you don’t have to let it sit over night.
Thanks for sharing! Am going to make this when two of my nieces are here for a late Christmas
Wonderful
Yeah very much so…
I made this last month for a family get together brunch. Everybody wanted the recipe. It was so good! Thanks
Thank you Sherri! So happy everyone enjoyed this recipe.
So, actually, you could stir everything (except the cheese) in a big bowl and then put it in the pammed pan….right? I am a little sloppy and would make a mess if I stirred all this stuff in a 9×13!
Yes, I think you could do that Mary.
There are lots of muffin recipes on the site. Just look on the right hand side of any page under breads and they are listed there. You can freeze just about any of them.
Do you thaw the potatoes before browning? Thanks!
No, you don’t thaw them.
Love your site..I have several recipes like this one and they all mix the eggs with milk. Your recipe does not include milk. Is that an oversight or you just don’t use any milk. Just wondering…
I don’t use any milk.
I recently saw a very easy recipe for Peanut Butter balls – Buckeyes. Could you direct me to it again please? Thanks
This is the only one on the site, Sarah: https://thesouthernladycooks.com/2013/12/02/crunchy-peanut-butter-balls/
The only ones on the site are posted under Candy on the right hand side of any page.
I made this today (11.25.13). Used Ore Ida O’brien hashbrowns and added a fresh jalapeno and served with flour tortillas. Was wonderful and family gobbled it up.
Nothin finer than a Southern lady and a bonus for one that is a kick-but cook too.
I also use link sausage cut in pieces for that recipes of such a nature.
It was a great dish in the old days for the residual of people left over from the party the night before.
You can use Potatoes O’Brien instead of plain hash browns it already has onions and bell peppers in it
The link to the garlic cheese grits is broken.
I checked the one on Facebook and the one on the recipe index and they are both working. Which one are you talking about, Kathryn?
In Boy Scouts we call this a Mountain Man Breakfast and baked it in a camping Dutch oven. We use fried Tater Tots in place of the hash browns and also add a jar of salsa under the cheese. Eat it plain or rolled up in a flour tortilla … always good!
I think in going to make this for my co-workers Friday…We cook every Friday and we all bring a dish
On gosh! This sounds amazing! This would make a great breakfast for supper too. We are talking eggs at Saturday Dishes. I’d love for you to bring this over. http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com
Wishes for tasty dishes,
Linda @Tumbleweed Contessa
Can this be made ahead and frozen?
I have made it the night before but I have not tried freezing it.
I am glad someone asked the question about stirring the eggs into all ingredientsI throught you meant just the seasonings I am going to make this
Thank you for all of your feedback! I hope you have a great weekend!
Do you use the shredded hashbrowns or can you use the other kind (the ones in the shape of little squares….sorry, for the life of me I can’t remember what they are called!). Thank you! 🙂
You can use either one. I use the country style but have used them all in the past.
Thank you…would you still brown the hashbrowns if not using the country style? Also, when you say to gently stir the ingredients with the eggs you don’t mean with the hashbrown layer, do you? Sorry, I’m not the best cook so I want to make sure I’m doing it right! Thanks, again!!
Yes, you still brown the hashbrowns. Yes, you stir the egss into all the ingredients.
Sounds great! I don’t usually have luck with packaged hashbrowns… 🙁 but I’ll definitely try this with bacon! Thanks!
You are one great cook and person!
Keep Cooking and Smiling
Thank you so much Helen. Happy to have you on the site, too.
Judy, I have made lot’s of your reciepe and found they were all so good..At Christy i made the brownies with chcoclatr and butterstoch and sent them to my sisters in ak.and they said they were awsome…Thank for all your reciepe…
CAN THIS BE MADE WITHOUT THE CHEESE. I’VE GOT SOME FOLKS IN MY HOUSE THAT CAN’T HAVE CHEESE.
I have never made it without the cheese.
Thanks, found it
It was awsome
I know this is supposed to be a breakfast recipe, but I might do a “breakfast for supper” and cook it tomorrow night. 🙂
Great sounding recipe. I pinned it to my Pinterest board and within an hour had 66 repins!!
Thanks Kitty! Have a great Easter, too.
I’m looking forward to receiving more of your recipes, they look wonderful and easy, I hope!
I really have been enjoying your breakfast posts on Facebook. This looks great.
Nice to read your comment on my blog. Congrats on the new baby to come. This breakfast casserole looks delicious. I may try it for Christmas Eve breakfast. Balisha
I make something very similar every x-mas morning. I usually do my prep the night before and assemble it and just pop it in the oven in the morning. Very hearty and yummy yours looks.