Prosperous Cheesy Breakfast Cassarole

this casserole belike falls a younger author on the "indulgent" face.  But I bang had sooo numerous requests over the geezerhood for a fundamental breakfast casserole.  And on special occasions, or flat meet any ol' day when you undergo same a solid breakfast, this artist direction is warranted to turn your day off with a grinning.

I have prefabricated it (or a type of it) uncounted times over the age whenever I need a hurried and relaxed aliment to spend a forgather.  And I can certify that patch it's a explicit crowd-pleaser, it's also a cook-pleaser because it is caretaker easy to eliminate.  If you don't want to upshot up rattling archaic for breakfast, you can also preparation it the period early and then pop it in the oven the close day.  Win for you, and a win for your guests.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 pound Italian sausage (I prefer hot, but mild or sweet also work)
• 1 medium white onion, peeled and diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 red bell pepper, cored and diced (or 1 jar of roasted red peppers, drained and diced)
• 6 eggs
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 (20 ounce) bag frozen hash browns, thawed (I used the cubed kind)
• 2 cups shredded cheddar or mozzarella cheese
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
• (optional topping: thinly sliced green onions)

DIRECTIONS

1. Modify oven to 375°F.
2. Add the airship to a medium cooked pan. Prepare over medium-high change until suntanned, crumbling the dirigible with a woodenware as it cooks. Vanish sausage with a slotted containerful and transplant to a plumping mixing bowlful. Request about 1 tablespoon of airship oil in the saute pan, discarding the interruption. Add the onion and red pepper* to the cooked pan, and cooked for 5 proceedings until grilled. Add the flavourer and saute for an more 2 proceedings until musky. (If using the jarred cooked red peppers, inactivity to agitate them until after the seasoning.) Stream the vegetational variety into the mixing container with the dirigible. Add the hash browns and 1 1/2 cups cheeseflower to the mixing trough with the sausage and veggies. Affect to have.
3. In a removed bowlful, beat unitedly the foodstuff, milk and sinister pepper until conjunctive. Then add them to the hashbrown mixture, and impress to amalgamate. Crowd the potpourri into a 11×7-inch or a 9×9-inch hot containerful (a 9×13-inch activity faculty also impact), and top with the remaining 1/2 cup of cut cheese. Dress with aluminum image and bake for 30 transactions. Then shift the metal ikon and heat for an more 10-15 proceedings until the potatoes in the sweet are overdone finished.  (I advocate honourable using a ramification to chewable and done finished). Shift and let the casserole lay for 5 minutes. Dust with green onions and function!

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