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This savory sausage breakfast casserole is flaky, filling, delicious and ready in under 30 minutes!!
The Ultimate Breakfast Feast
We LOVE this sausage breakfast casserole so much. It’s everything we love about breakfast, in one dish. Savory sausage, creamy eggs with cheese, and mouth-watering spices, all layered atop a soft and flaky crescent sheet.
It’s the perfect breakfast, and easy to make in large quantities. Add in that it only takes about 22 minutes to make, and this casserole will become a staple breakfast food in your kitchen.
It’s the perfect way to start a morning or holiday weekend! For more favorite breakfast casseroles, check out our Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole, Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole and Biscuit Breakfast Casserole.
WHY WE LOVE IT:
- All in one! This sausage breakfast casserole is everything you love about breakfast, layered on a crescent sheet.
- On the table in no time. From start to finish it’s ready in under 30 minutes – prepped in 7 and baked in 15!
- Filling. Crescent rolls, eggs, and sausage – everything you need to fill you up and get you through the morning!
Ingredients
PREP TIME: 7 minutes
COOK TIME: 15 minutes
- 1 pound sausage – or flavors of pork, chicken, or turkey sausage. You can also replace the sausage with cubes of ham or cooked crumbled bacon.
- 1 (8-ounce) package crescent sheet
- 5 large eggs
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning – Omit the Italian seasoning and replace it with a spice of your choice. Add heat with red pepper flakes
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese – or Colby Jack, Pepper Jack, or a cheese blend. Freshly shredded cheese melts better than prepackaged cheese.
- optional veggies – Saute and mix in vegetables like red bell pepper, mushrooms, broccoli florets, spinach, or jalapenos.
- optional toppings – Homemade Salsa, cooked bacon, sour cream, or green onions, Sausage Gravy
How to Make Sausage Breakfast Casserole
- PREP. Preheat oven to 400°F.
- SAUSAGE. Brown 1 pound sausage in a large skillet over medium heat, breaking it up as it cooks. Drain excess grease.
- CRESCENTS ROLLS. Unroll the 8-ounce crescent sheet and spread it onto the bottom of a greased 9×13 casserole dish. Evenly spread cooked sausage over the dough.
- EGGS. In a large bowl, whisk 5 eggs, ¼ cup milk, 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Pour the egg mixture over the top of your casserole, and sprinkle 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese on top.
- BAKE. Bake for 15-20 minutes until the eggs are set and the crust is golden.
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound sausage
- 1 package crescent sheet
- 5 eggs
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Brown sausage in a skillet over medium heat, breaking it up as it cooks. Unroll the crescent sheet and spread it onto the bottom of a greased 9×13 baking dish. Evenly spread sausage over the dough.
- In a medium bowl, whisk eggs, milk, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper. Pour over the top of your casserole, and sprinkle the cheese on top.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes until the eggs are set and the crust is golden.
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Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe FAQ
Assemble up to 8 hours ahead of time. Cover with plastic wrap and keep it in the refrigerator. Add a few extra minutes to the baking time.
Fully bake and cool the casserole before wrapping it tightly with plastic wrap and again with aluminum foil before. Freeze for up to 3 months.
Store leftovers in an airtight container(s) in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or freeze for up to 2 months.
Cooking this for 15 minutes?? All other recipes say cook for 45 +
Needless to say….now I am running late waiting on my still raw casserole dish tobake!
Sorry to hear the recipe put you behind in your day. It has typically only taken us 15-20 minutes to fully bake, but every oven is different so that time could vary. Hope you still enjoyed the casserole and thanks for giving the recipe a try! 🙂
I literally just made this recipe and it took about 18 minutes to be completely cooked. And the nice thing is you don’t have to wait till it cools, it cuts perfectly.
You did something wrong then. I just pulled mine 4th one this month from the oven after 17 minutes and as always it’s perfect and delicious! Don’t blame her for it not cooking in your oven properly. Great recipe. Christmas breakfast this year!
One of my top 5 favorite breakfast casseroles! Super tasty, super easy to make, and it’s a definite crowd pleaser.
Great for more than just breakfast, and it’s a very satisfying leftover for dinner, too.
We love this for Christmas breakfast and a week night dinner!
Can’t use dough as I need it to be gluten free leave out the croutons and Cresent rolls just eggs sausage and cheese and bacon
Thanks for sharing a way to make this a gluten free option. 🙂
Great, recipe, but does take a bit longer if wish to doctor it up a bit 😀great !!!!!
So glad to hear you enjoyed it!! Thanks!
Hi! I would like to use turkey sausage. Have you tried and is it good?
You totally could! I haven’t tried it with Turkey sausage so I’m not sure how it would taste, but you could definitely make that swap!
Easy and super ultra mega delicious. And I logged it in my fitness pal. If it’s cut into 12 squares, each serving has 260 calories, 12 g protein, 25% calcium, and 42% vitamin A. (Of course I ate 3 servings cuz it’s so good). Great way to start the day
Could I sub biscuits for crescent rolls? Its what I have on hand. I think it would turn out ok!
Yes – I think it would work. Just make sure the biscuit dough isn’t too thick. You can stretch it out to be a little thinner like the crescent roll dough if you need to.
Looks delicious! Could I substitute ham for the sausage?
Sure thing! I have done that before and it’s delicious! 🙂
A very easy and delicious recioe
Thank you for saying that 🙂