I am all about comfort foods. Most breakfast foods (sugary cereals and poptarts aside) are all comfort foods to me. I love warm and flaky biscuits, fluffy scrambled eggs, sweet honey or syrup, and I certainly love my cheese grits! If I’m going to be honest, I think breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. My family even loves to have breakfast for dinner! It’s not that often that I get to stop and actually cook breakfast during the week day, but I always look forward to the weekends when I sometimes get to indulge a little.
If us Southerners love anything besides those delicious breakfast items I just mentioned, it’s a good casserole. Casseroles are staple dishes. I can’t think of very many occasions where making a casserole isn’t appropriate. If I see a casserole in a buffet line, I’m having some of that! So years ago when my mother-in-law made this dish, I fell in love fast. I’ve had a few different versions of “breakfast casseroles”, but this is the best breakfast casserole I’ve ever tasted. It’s simple, hearty, warm and oh so delicious!
This dish is PERFECT to serve as breakfast in bed on birthdays, anniversaries, or during the holidays. It’s also really good reheated!
Here’s what you’ll need to make it:
Ingredients:
- 2 cans crescent rolls
- 1 lb ground sausage
- 1 package cream cheese, softened
- 6-8 eggs, scrambled
- Handful of shredded cheddar cheese (optional but HIGHLY recommended) 🙂
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Line the bottom of 9×13 casserole dish with flattened out crescent roll dough
- In a skillet, cook sausage and drain grease
- In a large mixing bowl, mix cooked sausage and cream cheese together
- Spread sausage mixture into casserole dish on top of the layer of crescent roll dough
- Sprinkle a handful of cheese (optional) over sausage mixture
- In skillet, scramble eggs
- Pour eggs into casserole dish on top of sausage and cheese mixture
- Top with additional crescent roll dough (you may have a little bit of dough left over)
- Bake according to crescent roll directions. I usually add an additional 4-5 minutes to ensure that the dough on the bottom is cooked all the way.
- Enjoy!
If you give this recipe a try, I’d love to hear how it turned out! I hope you enjoy this as much as my family does!
This sounds great, I have wanted to try some breakfast casseroles lately. I think it’s because the weather has gotten colder, but this one sounds like something my family would like. Thanks.
Definitely give this one a try! I think the cream cheese in it really adds something special to it! It really is perfect for this cold weather.
Love the sound of this recipe it seems easy and I would add a little heat with some pepperjack cheese.