Sausage & Egg Casserole
Miniature style.
Whenever I’m working on a grocery list, I always check with Chris and Pinky and see if they have any meal requests for the week. Almost always, at least one, if not both, of them say that they want mini sausage and egg casseroles. They lovingly refer to them as “meat muffins” and if you hang around for a few, you will see why. These tasty little bundles of yum are great for any meal throughout the day and there are so many different ingredients that can be used to please everyone’s pallets. Ok, maybe not if you are a vegan, but everyone else, you are good to go.
The recipe is simple and only calls for a few main ingredients.
Sausage
Eggs & Cheese
And a pinch of salt & pepper. (I love my chemical compound salt & pepper shakers. Awesome Christmas present!)
Make sure to preheat your oven to 375° and then brown the sausage. (Sausage could be substituted for any other breakfast meat, veggies, tofu, etc. Just put in what you like!)
Now this next step is very important. Make sure that you have an egg cracker available. I didn’t and you can see by this photo that I made quite a mess of myself.
My egg cracker was preoccupied with more exciting tasks, like sailing the 7 seas.
Once you have your egg cracker, crack said eggs into a large bowl.
Add the cheese, salt & pepper. Yum.
Then throw in the sausage, which has cooled a bit by this point, and mix it all up. You could even sing a song while you mix. It will only add to the fun!
Lightly grease a muffin tin and pour some of the mixture in each little cup, equally divvying it up.
Place your muffin tin in the oven and bake at 375 for 30 minutes. (Times and temperatures may vary.)
When the time is up, be careful and pull out the tin. Remove your mini puffs of perfection and serve. Pinky enjoys hers with some maple syrup, as you can see in the first photo.
These are D E L I C I O U S. I’m sure that these would be great the next day for a quick breakfast treat as you are flying out the door to go wherever you go in the morning, but we never have any of these left over. Here is the recipe if you would like to give it a try!
Mini Sausage & Egg Casseroles
Ingredients:
1 package of Jimmy Dean sausage
6-8 large eggs
1.5 c shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 t salt
1/4 t pepper
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375°. Brown the sausage. Combine eggs, cheese, salt, pepper and sausage in a large bowl and mix together. Spray a 12 cup muffin tin and pour egg mixture into each muffin cup evenly. Bake for 30 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes and serve.
