cooking while you’re asleep! Before cooking (during preparation), you can add chunks of sourdough bread, diced chiles, salsa, and/or sliced green onions to this recipe. If preferred, you can swap out the maple sausage with sage or normal sausage.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 6 hrs 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 6 hrs 20 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 (26 ounce) package frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed
- 12 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon ground mustard
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 (16 ounce) package maple-flavored sausage
- 1 (16 ounce) package shredded Cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Spray the crock of a slow cooker with cooking spray. Spread hash browns to cover the bottom of the slow cooker crock.
- Whisk eggs, milk, mustard, salt, and black pepper together in a bowl.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir sausage in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease. Spread sausage over hash browns and spread Cheddar cheese over sausage. Pour egg mixture over cheese.
- Cook on Low for 6 to 8 hours.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 641 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 21 g |
| Cholesterol | 376 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 36 g |
| Saturated Fat | 23 g |
| Sodium | 989 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 54 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This was pretty good! I left the crockpot on for 8 hours on low, but I think it would have been better after just 6, because the cheese layer got a bit too done. The recipe also makes a LOT, so it could definitely be halfed.
It was ok. Too many potatoes, not enough meat. Next time I’ll add bacon or ham, and mix the meat into potatoes before adding cheese and eggs.
Quick and Easy ! Just how i like them. I don’t like maple so used bacon. I wonder how italian sausage would be. Will add onions, mushrooms next time.
-Used Hash browns with onions garlic and seasoning-Used Adele’s pineapple bacon sausage-Did not cook sausage just put in crockpot-Ok to put cheese on last but have done it without and its fine-Put a little bit of salt and pepper since it’s hard to whisk it fully combined unless using a blender-Only cook for 6 hours since it can burn-Doubling the recipe is too big for one 6qt crockpot
I used larger frozen Cavendish potatoes, also put sausage in without frying first. I added garlic powder to egg mixture. I layered the ingredients as well. It tasted really good, made for a brunch and family loved. I made again and husband said he was excited for breakfast haha which says something because he is Nigerian and this normally wouldn’t be something he would love.
I changed the hash browns to O’Brian potatoes with peppers & onions. I also added more sausage. It was a hit at a breakfast thing I took it to.
Great taste. I reduced the amount of potatoes, I did not drain the sausage and it made it more flavorful and not dry. Definitely do not overlook though.
Great tasting
Really can’t put it on before bed the night before because it gets too done. I liked that it was very easy to put together, It tasted ok, but was a bit done. I put in on at 11 PM on low and had it turn off at 4. People were not ready to eat until 7 AM, so I plugged it back in to warm it up I was nervous that it sat from 4 until 6 with the crockpot off. Not sure I will make this again.
It’s good, but kinda bland. We seasoned it like was suggested, but it was still bland and all the cheese and sausage was at the top with most of the potato and egg at the bottom. I think it would work better if it was mostly mixed together.
I used 18 eggs (I think the recipe only calls for a dozen) instead for my department one Saturday that we had to work. They loved it! It was gone in a matter of moments, too> Almost didn’t have enough. I will definitely make a this again.
Made 1/2 recipe for 4. Half bag of potatoes is too much; it dries out the dish.
Good but a bit dry.
follow the instructions and it turned out terrible. the cheese knocked down to the bottom of the slow cooker and overcooked.
Althought my wife liked it, I found it to be nothing more then breakfast mush.
I went by the recipe and didn’t add anything. I might want to try using an 18” X 13” glass dish to bake it instead of the slow cooker. I think I cooked it too long in the slow cooker. It had a great flavor, but can see if you would want to add veggies, spices and another cheese to this casserole. I’d definitely make it again!
I’ve made similar casseroles in the oven and served them for brunch, but we would like it for an early breakfast, too, so this seemed worth trying. We were not disappointed except I forgot to use the cooking spray and it stuck like crazy, but that’s my own fault. It can be cooked longer, especially if you use chunky hash browns rather than the shredded ones. I used regular sausage and colby jack because that was what was on hand, but I’m sure it’s fine as written. I’ll be doing this regularly because it’s nice to wake up to. It makes a lot. I scooped out extra portions with a large ice cream scoop and froze them in individual sandwich bags for later.
Better off cooking everything separately.
Very good guests completely finished it and raved about it
Quick to put together and it tasted good. Next time I may add Bell pepper, onion, black olives…
Made it with my 1.5 qt triple slow cooker, since I used one pot, I cut the portions in half, turned out good. Perfect for Sunday breakfast and have leftovers for the work week, no need to rush, just a cup of coffee each morning goes good with it.