Easy Breakfast Casserole has hash browns, ham, cheese, and eggs. It’s quick to prepare, great for feeding a crowd, and can be made a head of time. Great for brunch or even the holidays!
Seriously, it took me longer to preheat my oven than it did for me to prepare this easy breakfast casserole. I used frozen hash browns, shredded cheese, and cubed ham. So, the only real prep work that I had to do was crack open the eggs.
MY LATEST RECIPESThis casserole will feed a crowd. It makes 8 to 12 portions, depending on how you cut it.
It would be perfect around the holidays since you only need to spend about 5 minutes in the kitchen putting it together. Then, just let it bake.
I always put salsa on my eggs. So, I served salsa with this dish. Hot sauce and sour cream would be good too.
Here’s the short recipe video for Easy Breakfast Casserole. In the video, I shred the cheese and chop the ham. You could definitely skip these steps and use pre-shredded cheese and pre-chopped ham.
Easy Breakfast Casserole has hash browns, ham, cheese, and eggs. It's quick to prepare, great for feeding a crowd, and can be made a head of time. Great for brunch or even the holidays!
- 24 oz. frozen hash browns -about 8 cups
- 16 oz. cubed ham
- 8 oz. sharp cheddar cheese -shredded
- 12 large eggs
- 1 cup milk -I used skim
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- cooking spray
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Add the frozen potatoes, ham, and cheese to a large bowl. Toss to combine. Pour the mixture into a 9 x 13 inch baking dish that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, whisk the eggs with the milk, salt, and pepper (I use the same bowl from step 1).
- Pour the egg mixture over the hash brown mixture. Pat everything down with the back of a wooden spoon.
Bake for one hour, uncovered. The center should be set and the edges should be golden brown.
How long does this keep in the fridge after its baked?
What about peeping and chopping real potToes? Has anyone tried using real potatoes?
Please share.
Yes, I grated them into cold water. Rinsed twice and blanched for 3 minutes. Then I squeezed out all the liquid.
Well hash browns technicallly are potatoes!! Might be frozen but someone in a factory peeled them, grated them ( or a machine anyway), then did all that work, and froze them.
If I cut the recipe in half (6 servings) and cook it in an 8×8 glass dish, will it still need to cook for a full hour?
I just made this for some out of town guest, but I put pork sausage instead of ham. They loved it!!
I made everything last night, including eggs, milk, salt and pepper in a bowl, put in refrig. Pork sausage in a separate bowl put in refrig. So this morning put hash browns in bottom of dish, then sausage, then cheese and then topped with egg mixture. So easy so good.
did you cook the sausage prior to putting it on the potatoes?
Yes….brown sausage first
I cooked this for an hour and 15 minutes and it’s still not finished. Has anyone had this problem?
Yes. The egg in the middle is still liquid….
Currently having this problem. I should have left my house 15 min ago.
Yes. I baked mine for 1 hour 25 minutes. But it was delicious when it got done. And even better the next day.
I added red, orange and green peppers as well sliced mushrooms. I mixed all of that with the hash browns did cheese then topped it with the eggs. I baked it last night for 45 minutes then put it in the refrigerator. I got it out this morning and put it in the oven to bake the rest the way. It looked mostly cooked last night. I also used refrigerated hashbrowns which was only a 20 ounce bag.