Inspiration: Week day breakfasts can be challenging for us in the mornings because there just isn’t an overload of extra time. I’m truly a breakfast lover, so I’d love to whip up individual omelets, sweet potato hash browns, and a fruit salad every day, but it’s just not feasible (not to mention that we really don’t need nearly that much food in the way of breakfast on the week day mornings). I like to bake a breakfast casserole every now and then on a Sunday afternoon as a great solution. They’re dead simple to make, and then we have breakfast for most of the week. We just cut out a couple of pieces in the morning, throw them into the microwave, and end up with a great and nutritious breakfast.
What We Loved: I really enjoyed this nice and fluffy breakfast casserole because it has a couple of the main components of what I consider a classic breakfast when it comes to eggs – sausage and cheese. To me, those ingredients are just so rich and comforting. Broccoli is also a great complement to cheddar, so adding that to the mix really worked out beautifully. I always love being able to have a good serving of vegetables or fruits with each meal, so throwing that broccoli in there made me a happy girl.
Tips: This recipe was adapted from a recipe that I first found years ago on Closet Cooking. I’ve found over the years that the base of the recipe – 10 eggs, a splash of milk, 1 cup of cottage cheese, 1 cup of shredded cheese, and salt and pepper – is fantastic and very versatile for whatever kind of breakfast casserole that you’d like to make. Just use that base, and then throw in whatever meats and vegetables that you’d like.
Broccoli, Cheddar, and Sausage Breakfast Casserole
Source: Inspired from Closet Cooking (Source: www.thevancouverrealestate.ca)
About 3/4 lb pork sausage
1/2 small onion, diced
10 eggs
Splash milk or cream
1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
About 3/4 cup finely chopped broccoli (I used broccolini)
Kosher salt and black pepper
1. Crumble the sausage into a saute pan, and add the onion. Cook until the meat is completely cooked through and the onions are softened and beginning to brown.
2. Crack the 10 eggs into a mixing bowl. Add a splash of milk, and whisk together. Add the sausage mixture, cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, broccoli, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix together well.
3. Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish with butter. Pour in the egg mixture.
3. Cook at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes, until the eggs are completely set.
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Perfect breakfast!
Thanks! I agree :)
Great recipe! I’ve been preparing quite a few breakfast casseroles as well lately. It’s so nice to have a healthy breakfast waiting in the fridge in the morning for a quick, filing, and nutritious breakfast!
Thanks! I think my favorite thing about it is that you can make it ahead of time! So convenient.
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I am going to try this.
Hope that you enjoy it!
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With all of our eggs (the ladies are doing good by us!), this breakfast looks so incredible and relatively easy for food on the go for the boys. I’m thinking I will put this in individual cups for single-hand eating – this will certainly get me some Mom of the Year point, no?
Oh I like the idea of individual servings like that – sounds fun!
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this was on pinterest as a paleo recipe. not sure if that is how you pinned it but this is not paleo…
We don’t give any of the recipes on our blog the paleo designation (or any other designation). They are simply the recipes that suit our lifestyle, which tends to include whole ingredients and low/zero levels of processed carbs and sugars. Our recipes often do fit into the paleo definition, but we personally never label them as such. We don’t have a Pinterest page yet for the blog, so you must have found the pin on someone else’s Pinterest board.
Not paleo -has dairy!!!!
We never labeled it as such.
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Someone put this on their blog as Peleo Nrwakfast Ideas. That’s why I went to it, but either way, I made it and it is good. So thank you :-)
She never labeled this as Paleo! come on! She can’t control who pins or tags her as such and ANYONE who eats Paleo will know right off that it is not. It does however meet lots of other dietary needs and labels and it just tastes great. Thanks, Carrie.
Thank you Sarah! I very much appreciate the support :)
Glad that you enjoyed the recipe, too!
Okay this is pretty easy but can I go with frozen sausages?? I’m really looking forward to making this!! Thank you.
I would think that the frozen ones would work just fine!
Just wanted to say thanks for the great recipe idea. I happened upon it through a pin on pinterest. I had never thought of using cottage cheese or shredded sweet potato in a breakfast casserole. I made this tonight and because of what I had on hand, I made a couple changes – I used chicken and apple sausage, spinach instead of broccoli, and added some adobo sauce from a can of chipotle chilies (just a bit added to the eggs) and it’s fabulous! Thanks again!
So glad that you enjoyed the recipe. I really love adding cottage cheese to breakfast casseroles now….I do it nearly every time that I make one! Your changes sound really great, particularly the apple chicken sausage. Yum!
Just pulled this out of the oven on our first day of vacation, and it is delicious!! I loved that I could prep it the night before. Thanks for sharing!
Oh good, I’m so glad! Prepping the night before is a great idea. That is always SO nice!
Was looking for a nice recipe for Casserole…..found one in your blog, I am gonna try this for tomorrow breakfast !!
I hope that you liked this if you ended up trying it! I haven’t made a breakfast casserole in quite some time….it’s sounding pretty good to me right now!
Let’s be nice and say I’m a cooking “novice.” How much is a splash? :) This looks yummy (minus the sausage). Thank you!
Oh, just a couple tablespoons or so!
I made this tonight and it was SOOOOO good! Will certainly make it again soon. Thanks for the recipe!
Oh good! I’m so glad that you enjoyed it!
Going to make this today!
Just a question about the broccoli..do you use fresh or frozen and was it cooked ahead of time?
Also, any nutritional facts on the recipe in whole?
Thanks!
I use fresh broccoli and chop it pretty finely, so it doesn’t need to cook ahead of time. Not sure on the nutritional facts – I don’t keep track!
Have you ever frozen this recipe and then cooked it the day of?
Nope, I’ve never tried that. If you ended up doing so, please let me know how it worked!
Great casserole, I made it and took it for a breakfast office party, thank you! I searched many recipes including Food Network, Paula Deen, but your recipe had the most variety of simple ingredients I was looking for and tasted the best :-)
Wow, thanks so much! That means a lot to me :)
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I’ve read and reread the recipe. I’m about to make it for tomorrow morning (making ahead this afternoon). I should probably just know this, but do I cook the broccoli first or put it in fresh/frozen?
You can just throw it in fresh! Since it’s finely chopped, it’ll be fine. If you’re using frozen, you’ll probably want to bring it to room temperature first and then chop it up.