Turkey Sausage Breakfast Casserole
Turkey Sausage Breakfast Casserole is an easy, hearty, filling, and delicious breakfast casserole dish. My healthier biscuits and gravy veggie casserole is the ultimate comfort food meal. This recipe takes less than 35 minutes to make and works wonderfully as breakfast, but especially as dinner. Bring county living home with you with this satisfying meal!
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Ingredients
- 1 16 ounces can refrigerated jumbo buttermilk biscuits
- 1 1 pound turkey sausage
- 1 ½ cups shredded Cheddar cheese divided
- 1- cup chopped broccoli
- 1- cup chopped green bell peppers
- 6 eggs
- 1- teaspoon onion salt
- 1- teaspoon garlic salt
- 1- teaspoon black pepper
Homemade Country Gravy
- Reserved Sausage Grease as much as you can pull from the cooked sausage
- ¼- cup flour
- 1- cup milk
- 2- teaspoons Himalayan Sea Salt
- 2- teaspoons ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish with coconut oil. Line the bottom of the prepared baking dish with biscuits.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir sausage in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and reserve the sausage grease for the homemade country gravy.
- Saute the broccoli and green bell peppers in the same pan you cooked the sausage in and cook them until they are partially soft. Don't cook the veggies for very long as they will continue to cook in the casserole in the oven.
- Scatter sausage and veggies over the biscuit layer and top with 1-cup Cheddar cheese.
- Whisk eggs, milk, salt, and pepper together in a bowl and pour over cheese layer.
Homemade Country Gravy
- Prepare the country gravy
- Mix milk, flour, sausage grease, Himalayan sea salt, and black pepper together in a saucepan; bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer until gravy is thickened, 1 to 2 minutes, adding more flour for a thicker gravy.
- Pour gravy over egg layer. Sprinkle remaining ½ cup Cheddar cheese over casserole.
- Bake at 350-degrees for 30-minutes.
Notes
🍳 FAQ For Delicious Breakfast Casserole Recipe
You can also use storebought gravy, but making your own country gravy from scratch is super simple and makes this dish healthier because it cuts the sodium content in half. Plus there are no funky chemicals in homemade country gravy. Homemade biscuits are a fabulous addition to my Healthier Biscuits and Gravy Veggie Casserole, but many people do not have the time. If you want to make this recipe extra special, make homemade biscuits from scratch and you’ll really up your biscuits and gravy game! This recipe is a great addition to your weekly dinner time round-up. You could also make this for breakfast. You could add hashbrowns to this brunch recipe and turn this into a breakfast casserole with turkey sausage and hash browns or add chicken and make it a chicken sausage and egg casserole, but I prefer turkey sausage recipes because it really brings all the flavors together. What kind of sausage for breakfast casserole?- Turkey Sausage, Pork Sausage, or even ground beef works well too!
- Yes! I make about three a week for my family in my house.
- Yes, it freezes really well. Simply store leftovers in freezer ziplock bags and reheat at 350 degrees on a sheet pan for 15-20 minutes when ready to eat again.
Nutrition
Serving: 1sliceCalories: 213kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 19gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 189mgSodium: 1961mgPotassium: 310mgFiber: 1gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 568IUVitamin C: 34mgCalcium: 213mgIron: 2mg
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