Sausage & Hash Brown Breakfast Bake

SAUSAGE & HASH BROWN BREAKFAST BAKE💫 Christmas morning means this breakfast bake, cinnamon rolls, hot chocolate for the kids, and a morning glass of champagne or spiked coffee for the grown-ups. Every year. This breakfast bake is perfect to feed a crowd, and if you are lucky enough to have a full house this year make sure to make it one morning 🎄❣️💫

1 1/2 lbs. ground breakfast sausage
1 cup diced onion
1 16 oz. bag of shredded potatoes
12 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon Cholula hot sauce
1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese
Salt and Pepper

Minced red peppers and chives to garnish for some Christmas flair 🎄❣️

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Brown and crumble the sausage over medium heat in skillet. Add the diced onions, turn heat down to medium low, and sauté an additional three minutes. Add the potatoes, 2 teaspoons of salt and 1 teaspoon of pepper, sauté another two minutes. If potatoes are frozen, add an additional three minutes. Put mixture into a greased 9 x 13 casserole dish and smooth and press with a spatula.

Whisk together the eggs, milk, Cholula, one cup of the grated cheddar cheese and 1 teaspoon of salt. Pour over the sausage potato mixture.

Bake for 35 minutes. Sprinkle an additional 1/2 cup of cheddar on top and bake an additional 10-15 minutes until fully set in the middle and golden brown on top.

Garnish with peppers and chives if using.

This bake can be assembled and left in the refrigerator for up to 12 hours and baked the next morning, also quick to put together morning of!