This Slow Cooker Potato and Sausage Breakfast Casserole is perfect for savory breakfast lovers who want to do minimal amounts of cooking. Just layer everything in your slow cooker and let it do all the work, then enjoy this flavorful protein-packed casserole to start your day off right!
Why You’ll Love This Potato and Sausage Breakfast Casserole
Surprisingly enough, I don’t like eggs, but I know I should incorporate more of them into my diet so I can enjoy some good protein and savory breakfasts. Enter: breakfast casseroles. After trying a few different kinds, I realized they’re an easy way to make a healthy breakfast and actually enjoy eggs!
This sausage and potato casserole is even better because it’s made in the slow cooker. You can put pretty much whatever you want in there and just set it and forget it. In a few hours, you’ll be enjoying a flavorful breakfast – and you barely lifted a finger!
If you’re interested in more slow cooker breakfast recipes, try my Slow Cooker Berry Oatmeal or this Slow Cooker Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Rice. Enjoy!
More Breakfast Casseroles To Try
- Sausage Hashbrown Casserole
- Sunday Breakfast Casserole
- Bacon, Mushroom, and Spinach Breakfast Casserole
- Triple Berry French Toast Casserole
Key Ingredients
Less than 10 ingredients are needed to make this yummy breakfast! Many of them – like eggs, milk, and seasonings – are probably already in your kitchen!
- Smoked sausage – or ham
- Onion – chopped
- Southwestern-style hash browns
- Can of green chilies
- Eggs
- Milk
- Salt + pepper
- Sharp cheddar cheese
- Salsa
How to Make A Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole
Step 1: Prep Slow Cooker
Lightly grease the inside of your slow cooker.
Step 2: Combine Sausage + Potato Mixture
In a large bowl, combine the sausage, onion, hash browns, and chilies. Spoon the mixture into the prepared crock pot.
Step 3: Add Egg Mixture
In the same bowl, beat the eggs, milk, salt, and pepper. Pour the wet mixture over the potato mixture in the crock pot, and cook it on low for 7 hours, or high for 3-4 hours. In the last 15 minutes of cooking, top the casserole with shredded cheese and then cover to finish cooking. Serve with salsa and enjoy!
FAQs
My top suggestion would be something sweet to balance out the savory. That means, most likely, fruit! You can make a regular fruit salad, a creamy key lime fruit salad, or stick to one fruit and slip it on a skewer to make donut and fruit kabobs. Or, go crazy and make some cinnamon sugar French toast sticks!
It shouldn’t come out dry because all of the moisture will be percolating in the slow cooker, but you can add a little bit more milk, a sauce (like salsa!), or use one part milk and one part half and half so things are a little creamier.
Once your casserole is cooled, store it in an airtight container and then put it in the fridge for 3-4 days. Reheat it in the microwave and enjoy!
More Breakfast Recipes You’ll Love
- Healthy Oatmeal Banana Breakfast Muffins
- Bean and Cheese Breakfast Tacos
- Ham and Potato Breakfast Bake
- Ham and Egg Breakfast Cups
- Twice Baked Breakfast Potatoes
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Slow Cooker Potato and Sausage Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 pound of smoked sausage or you can use ham
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 20 oz package southwestern style hash browns
- 1 4 oz can green chilies
- 12 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- Your favorite salsa
Instructions
- Lightly grease the inside of your slow cooker.
- In a large bowl combine the sausage, onion, hash browns and chilies. Spoon into prepared crock.
- In the same bowl beat the eggs, milk, salt and pepper. Pour over the potato mixture. Cover and cook on low for 7 hours or high for 3-4 hours. In the last 15 minutes of cooking top with shredded cheese, cover and finish cooking. Serve with salsa.
Notes
SUPER DRY. Maybe if some of cheese was mixed in with eggs? Also, a waste of can of green chiles, couldn’t taste them at all. Still fun to try b/c it was ready on time after my yearly music recital.
So sorry you didn’t like the recipe!!!