Description
The best breakfast casserole I’ve ever made. I combine a few different recipes and this is my picky hubby’s most favorite!
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 (12 ounce) package bacon
- 1 teaspoon butter, or as desired
- 1 (20 ounce) package frozen cubed hash brown potatoes
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 (12 ounce) package sliced fresh mushrooms
- 3 green onions, minced
- 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
- 10 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spray a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Arrange bacon slices in a single layer on a baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until browned and crisp
- 20 to 25 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels and transfer 1 to 2 tablespoons bacon grease to a skillet
- reserving the remaining bacon grease. Add butter to skillet.
- Cook and stir potatoes in the hot bacon grease-butter until lightly browned
- about 10 minutes; season with salt and black pepper. Transfer potatoes to the prepared baking dish.
- Heat about 1 tablespoon reserved bacon grease in the skillet over medium heat; cook and stir mushrooms until softened
- 5 to 10 minutes. Layer mushrooms over potatoes.
- Place green onions in the same skillet and remove from heat. Allow green onions to soften from the residual heat in skillet; layer over mushrooms. Crumble bacon over green onion layer; top with 1 cup Cheddar cheese.
- Blend eggs
- milk
- and 1 teaspoon salt in a blender until smooth; pour over Cheddar cheese layer. Top casserole with remaining 1 cup Cheddar cheese.
- Bake in the preheated oven until casserole is set and a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean
- 30 to 40 minutes.
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 5 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Servings: 6