Crockpot Breakfast Casserole

This breakfast casserole is made in the Crockpot or slow cooker and is super versatile, making it perfect for entertaining, the holidays, or Christmas morning. With hashbrowns, eggs, onions, cheese, and your protein of choice (with vegetarian options!), it’s loaded with flavor and is so easy and quick to make.

Why This Casserole is So Good

• This breakfast casserole is so quick and easy to make, you just have to fry the bacon and then dump everything in the slow cooker.
• You can easily make this casserole vegetarian.
• You can set this casserole overnight for an easy to grab breakfast in the morning.

How to Make This Recipe

1. Cook the diced bacon until crisp. Drain and set aside.
2. Spray the sides and bottom of Crockpot. Spread half of the hash browns in the bottom then sprinkle over half of onions, then half of the cheese, then half of the bacon. Repeat with the remaining ingredients: hash browns, onions, cheese, bacon.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk eggs with half-and-half, salt, garlic, black Pepper. Pour eggs over. Low 8-9 hours

Such an Easy Overnight Recipe

This casserole is perfect if you have overnight guests that need feeding in the morning. It takes around 8 to 9 hours to cook the casserole in the slow cooker, so pop everything in just before you go to bed and you will wake up to a ready to serve hot breakfast.

Variations

I love this recipe, as it’s so easy to adapt it to different tastes and diets.

• You can use 1 pound of breakfast sausage in place of the bacon. Brown and crumble the breakfast sausage then drain and continue with the recipe as written.
• It’s so easy to make this casserole vegetarian. You can simply omit the bacon, or you could substitute it for vegetarian bacon or sausage.
• If you prefer, you can use non-dairy milk or half-and-half. I like Ripple’s Half and Half.

How Long Does It Keep?

This is such a great make-ahead breakfast, not only can you cook it the night before serving, but it also stores well too. Transfer the cooked casserole to an airtight container and it will keep well in the fridge for about three to four days and then you can reheat it in the oven.

Top Tips For Making

• When sprinkling on the cheese, leave a slight border from the sides of the crockpot. This will prevent as much burning of the edges as possible
• There will be SOME burning on the edges but it won’t affect the rest. just leave a small border when cutting into the casserole to serve
• You must spray the crockpot first. this dish cooks for quite a long time and will burn or stick otherwise

For More Tasty Breakfast Recipes:

• Freezer Breakfast Burritos
• Whole30 Hashbrown Sausage Breakfast Casserole
• Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl
• Vegan Breakfast Pita Pizza

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Crockpot Breakfast Casserole

This breakfast casserole is made in the Crockpot or slow cooker and is super versatile, making it perfect for entertaining, the holidays, or Christmas morning.

Course Breakfast, Brunch

Cuisine American

Keyword crockpot breakfast casserole, easy breakfast casserole recipe, make ahead breakfast casserole

Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 8 hours 10 minutes

Servings 8

Calories 581 kcal

Author Cheryl Malik

Ingredients

• 1 26 ounce bag of frozen hash browns no need to thaw
• 3 cups shredded cheese
• 2/3 cup white onion chopped
• 1 pound bacon diced. See Note for sausage or vegetarian versions
• 1 dozen eggs
• 1 cup half-and-half See Note
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Instructions

1. Cook the diced bacon until crisp. Drain and set aside.

2. Spray the sides and bottom of Crockpot. Spread half of the hash browns in the bottom then sprinkle over half of onions, then half of the cheese, then half of the bacon. Repeat with the remaining ingredients: hash browns, onions, cheese, bacon.

3. In a medium bowl, whisk eggs with half-and-half, salt, garlic, black Pepper. Pour eggs over. Cook on Low 8-9 hours

Recipe Notes

You can use 1 pound of breakfast sausage in place of the bacon. Brown and crumble the breakfast sausage then drain and continue with the recipe as written.

If you like, you can leave out the bacon altogether for a vegetarian version. Or use veggie sausage or bacon in place of the meat!

If you prefer, you can use non-dairy milk or half-and-half. I like Ripple’s Half and Half.

Nutrition Facts

Crockpot Breakfast Casserole

Amount Per Serving

Calories 581 Calories from Fat 378

% Daily Value*

Fat 42g65%

Saturated Fat 17g106%

Cholesterol 327mg109%

Sodium 1057mg46%

Potassium 571mg16%

Carbohydrates 22g7%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 1g1%

Protein 28g56%

Vitamin A 768IU15%

Vitamin C 9mg11%

Calcium 296mg30%

Iron 3mg17%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.