I used to have a couple of different egg casseroles in my freezer meal rotation. They were simple ways to make eggs for many, and it wasn’t uncommon for us to have the for a weekday breakfast simply because it was about as easy to stick four of them in the freezer as it was to make “yolky” eggs for seven kids on a given morning! Efficiency, mama, efficiency! 🙂
Unfortunately, my two favorite egg casserole recipes were loaded with carbs—one had shredded potatoes (or shredded hash browns) in the bottom and the other had toasted bread cubes. So I really haven’t made a lot of them lately.
Enter this amazing recipe. I made it for a ladies’ brunch, and a low carbing friend said, “This is so good. It’s a shame it isn’t low carb.” She thought it had to have potatoes or something else in it. But it doesn’t!
This recipe can also be frozen in 8 x 8 or smaller pans for smaller families, like some of the smaller pans shown here.
I will put the ingredients for one, but if you have read much of what I have written about household efficiency and kitchen/menu planning, you know I don’t like to make one of anything. So the ingredients for four (one for now; one for the freezer!) are in parentheses following each ingredient.
Each pan serves six to eight people well.
- Amazing Breakfast Casserole
- 1 pound sausage, turkey or regular (4 lbs)
- ¼ to ½ cup onion, chopped (1 to 2 cups)
- ¼ to ½ cup bell pepper,chopped (1 to 2 cups)
- 6 eggs (24 eggs)
- 1 cup half & half or almond milk (4 cups)
- ½ cup water or chicken broth (2 cups)
- 2 cups cheese (8 cups)
- Brown and drain the sausage.
- Saute onions and peppers in a little of the sausage grease until tender. (They will finish cooking in the casserole.)
- Place sausage in bottom of greased 9 x 13 casserole dish. (If making for the freezer too, I use foil pans and just divide the meat evenly among four pans.)
- Spread onions and peppers over the meat in the pan.
- Mix eggs, half and half, water/broth, and cheese together.
- Pour egg mixture over all.
- Bake at 350 degrees convection for 30 to 40 minutes covered (regular oven 45 to 60); uncover last ten minutes.
- Cover, label, and freeze remaining ones if you made four.
Amazing Breakfast Casserole
DATE: _____________________
1. Defrost in fridge overnight.
2. Bake at 350 degrees convection for 30 to 40 minutes covered (regular oven 45 to 60); uncover last ten minutes.
