This time of the year is full of special moments. Invite Merry Morning Casserole to your table and start capturing all those important memories. With enough for everyone, the fluffy eggs, savory-seasoned sausage, and loads of melted cheddar cheese quickly come together to satisfy all your hungry memory-makers. What a joyful menu addition Merry Morning Casserole will be for all of your happy house guests. Nothing is more memorable than sharing good food with the ones you love.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground breakfast sausage
- 1/2 small yellow onion, finely diced
- 1/2 red bell pepper, diced
- 1/2 green bell pepper, diced
- 12 large eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
- 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon ground sage
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 (28-ounce) bag frozen shredded hash browns, thawed
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 cups cheddar cheese
- fresh herbs, to taste, for garnish
Directions
Step 1 –Adjust an oven rack to the middle and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 2 –Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
Step 3 –In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add the breakfast sausage and cook, while crumbling, until it is no longer pink, about 4 minutes.
Step 4 –Add the onion, the red bell pepper, and the green bell pepper to the sausage and cook, about 3 minutes.
Step 5 –Drain the excess grease from the sausage mixture. Set it aside.
Step 6 –In a large bowl, add the eggs and beat vigorously until they are bubbly and frothy.
Step 7 –Add the sour cream, the milk, the hot sauce, the mustard powder, the dried oregano, the dried thyme, the ground sage, the salt, and the black pepper to the beaten eggs and whisk to combine. Set it aside.
Step 8 –Add the hash browns to the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
Step 9 –Evenly drizzle the melted butter over the hash brown layer.
Step 10 –Sprinkle 1 cup of the cheddar cheese over the hash browns.
Step 11 –Evenly add the sausage mixture over the cheese layer.
Step 12 –Pour the egg mixture over the sausage mixture.
Step 13 –Evenly sprinkle the remaining cheddar cheese over the casserole.
Step 14 –Bake the casserole until it is slightly browned and the middle is nearly set, about 50 minutes. If not fully baked, check about every 5 minutes until it is done.
Step 15 –Transfer the casserole to a wire rack and let it rest, about 10 minutes.
Step 16 –Serve the casserole garnished with the fresh herbs.
