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Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole. This quick and easy to put together breakfast can cook in the slow cooker overnight while you’re sleeping!! There’s nothing better than waking up to the smell of a homemade breakfast already made. This casserole is loaded up with sausage, diced hash browns, eggs and cheese.
This super easy and completely craveable Overnight, Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole is going to be your new best friend! This casserole is loaded up with all the breakfast favorites and the best part? It can cook overnight while you sleep! Making this the perfect breakfast meal this holiday season. Perfect for busy days and it makes a decent amount making it great for when company is spending the night!
Getting this casserole going the night before doesn’t take too many steps. The only things we need to prep is dicing up the onion and bell peppers and cooking the sausage. We want to have the sausage cooked before adding it to the slow cooker because we want to get rid of the grease. Not a fan of sausage? Swap it out for bacon. Just follow the same steps of cooking it before adding it to the slow cooker.
I use diced hash browns when I make this casserole. But you can absolutely make it with shredded hash browns, like this Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole, if you prefer. You can dice up your own potatoes, or if you’re like me and at the end of the evening you just want to head to bed for those precious few hours of sleep, just use the frozen version. We can toss them into the slow cooker still frozen and they cook up perfectly.
We top it all with cheese and pour the egg mixture on top of it all. You will wake up to the most amazing smell and breakfast already made! If you’re planning a later brunch or are wanting this for dinner (because let’s face it…sometimes breakfast for dinner is a must) this can be made in 4 hours on a high setting also.
Make sure you check out this Overnight Bacon and Cheese Strata also for an easy prep ahead breakfast idea.
Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
- 16 ounce pork sausage
- 1 lb frozen hash browns used diced hash brown potatoes
- 1 green bell pepper diced
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- 1½ cup cheddar cheese shredded
- 12 eggs
- ⅓ cup milk
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
Instructions
- Brown and crumble the sausage in a skillet over medium heat. Once the sausage is fully cooked remove from the skillet and place onto a plate covered with a paper towel. Place another paper towel on top and press to remove as much grease as possible.
- Spray the inside of the slow cooker with non stick cooking spray.
- Layer the diced hash browns (still frozen) and bell pepper and the cooked sausage and cheddar cheese in the slow cooker.
- In a medium size bowl mix the eggs with the milk, salt and pepper. Pour the egg mixture into the slow cooker over the other ingredients.
- Set to cook on low for 4-6 hours or high for 2 hours.
Equipment
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The recipe Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole originally appeared on The Recipe Critic.
Can you double this recipe? And if so do I need to increase the cook time?
You absolutely can double it. It will most likely affect the cook time, I would just recommend to keep an eye on it. When the egg starts browning around the edges you will want to turn the heat off.
This looks very good! If I choose to use real potatoes, do you recommend a particular brand,? Also, would you dice these up 1/2 inch cubes? I’m concerned they may turn to mash if I cube them too small.
Hi Wanda! If you’re using real potatoes, I would go with a waxier potato so that they don’t turn to mush, so a gold potato would probably work well! And dice them to the 1/2 inch cube size. Let me know how it turns out 🙂
I am a slow cooker addict. Cant wait to try this on christmas day for brunch. Im going to serve it with balsamic roasted cherry tomatoes and baby mushrooms.
The blurb states onion but the recipe at the bottom doesn’t list it. Are there supposed to be onions? I didn’t pick any up ?
No worries! I will have to fix that, I did previously have onion in the recipe, but as I kept making this over time, I felt that the onion gave a really overpowering flavor since it slow cooks. So I removed it from the recipe.
Just checking….only 2 hours on high setting will do the trick?
Every slow cooker cooks different. The one I use can cook the eggs completely in 2 hours on high. But if you’re trying this for the first time I would leave room for 3 hours, to see how your slow cooker does. And it will stay warm in the meantime until you serve it.
Can this be made this w/o the potatoes?
The potatoes add substance to the dish. I’m afraid it would burn without them in the slow cooker.
I’m wondering if there would be a low carb substitute for the potatoes, or if I could just omit the potatoes. Feeding a group and this would be wonderful if it was ready overnight.
Keto recipes substitute radishes for potatoes. Supposedly the texture is the same and they take on the taste of the dish
How does the dehydrated Shredded potatoes (in a box) work, or have you tried them?
I haven’t tried it with the dehydrated potatoes, I’m not sure how well those would hold up in the slow cooker.
Our daughter made this when were at their home visiting. It took her a few minutes to put the casserole together,, but she got rave reviews from everyone.!
What size crock pot is this recipe for? I have a seven quart crock and this seems like a recipe for a smaller crock pot.
Bethany
I use a 6 quart slow cooker.