This Cheese, Bacon and Potato Breakfast Casserole Recipe is an easy way to feed your family or a whole crowd for breakfast or brunch.
Which meal of the the day is your favorite? Mine has always been breakfast. Growing up in a family with 6 kids, mom had her hands full! She usually made eggs or cereal for breakfast during the week, but on the weekend, she went all out!
When Saturday or Sunday came around, she would make cinnamon rolls from scratch, hash browns, fried and scrambled eggs and pancakes or waffles. We would be so stuffed, we usually skipped lunch and hardly had room for dinner.
Looking back, I am pretty sure that was her plan all along! Cook one big meal and save yourself from cooking the other two!
I love to cook for my kids, but we don’t have the time to cook the big breakfasts mom made. Instead, I toss everything into one casserole! One of our favorites is my Cheese, Bacon and Potato Breakfast Casserole recipe.
This is such an easy recipe and it is super cheap too! I also love that we can change it up so we don’t get bored with the same casserole every stinking time.
Some weekends I will add some sweet peppers and spinach instead of the bacon. I love this vegetarian option. You can also substitute sweet potatoes for the baking potatoes. The kids love both options equally.
One more big bonus to this recipe is that it serves as an overnight breakfast casserole as well! Just mix everything up the night before and then pop in the oven in the morning to bake!
If you want to add something sweet to your breakfast you can pair it with our apple challah french toast casserole or our brown butter muffins.
Cheese, Bacon and Potato Breakfast Casserole Recipe
Ingredients needed:
See recipe card below for measurements.
Large baking potatoes, peeled, rinsed and cut into small cubes
Onion, diced
Garlic, diced
Cooked bacon, chopped
Shredded cheese of your choice
Eggs
Milk
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
Sour cream for topping
How to make this easy breakfast casserole:
Preheat oven to 400.
In a medium sauce pan, heat up olive oil. Cook onion for 2 minutes. Add garlic and cook for one additional minute. Set aside.
In a large bowl, add eggs and milk. Whisk until well combined. Add potatoes, bacon, and one cup of cheese.Mix well.
In a 9×13 well greased pan, pour potato mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste. Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until potatoes are fork tender.
Add remaining cheese and return to oven for five additional minutes. Allow to rest 5 minutes before serving.
Drizzle with sour cream when serving if desired.
For Camping:
If you love to go camping like we do, this is also a great recipe for your next outdoor adventure. This is a dish you can actually make ahead of time.
When you cut the potatoes, be sure to keep them in an airtight container filled with cold water. This will keep them from turning black.
Separately, add the other ingredients in a Ziploc bag.
When you get to the campsite, just drain the water from the potatoes, grease your cast iron skillet and add your egg mixture.
Cover with your cast iron lid and add some hot coals to the top. This will help it cook more evenly. Cook for 35 minutes.
Cheese, Bacon and Potato Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
- 3-4 large baking potatoes peeled, rinsed and cut into small cubes
- 1 small onion diced
- 1 tablespoon of garlic diced
- 1/2 cup cooked bacon chopped
- 2 cups shredded cheese of your choice
- 1 dozen eggs
- 1/8 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- In a medium sauce pan, heat up olive oil. Cook onion for 2 minutes. Add garlic and cook for one additional minute. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, add eggs and milk. Whisk until well combined. Add potatoes, bacon, and one cup of cheese.Mix well.
- In a 9×13 well greased pan, pour potato mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste. Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until potatoes are fork tender.
- Add remaining cheese and return to oven for five additional minutes.
- Allow to rest 5 minutes before serving.
Nutrition
What is your favorite breakfast casserole?
ellen beck says
This would also make a fantastic breakfast for dinner option. We have breakfast for dinner maybe 3 times a month (sometimes more) and this would be filling. I could see this as something too that leftovers could be frozen and it would make great lunches too. Pretty versatile.
Hannah C says
This looks so great!! I love potatos and bacon for breakfast, so a casserole together sounds fantastic.
deanna says
Oh my goodness this looks so good. I must try this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
David Nolen says
New dish for my breakfast! Thanks to you. It’s so easy and tasty!
Joy says
What a delicious breakfast! And it would make great leftovers to snack on too 🙂 My family would love this!
Deborah Workman says
Took the survey! And can’t wait to try this recipe this weekend- it looks amazing!
shelly peterson says
This recipe looks so yummy for breakfast. The family would love it.
Julie Wood says
What a really healthy and filling breakfast casserole that my family would love for a Sunday brunch. I will have to make this and have family over. Thanks for the recipe!
Sarah L says
Looks delicious and if there’s any leftovers I bet they heat up well.
Jerry Marquardt says
I thought you were kidding me, t after further review, I know you have a seriously delicious breakfast dish here. Thanks for sharing because I love bacon and cheese.
G K says
I’ve never had a breakfast casserole before, but what a great idea! It has everything I love in it.
Allyson becker says
This looks so good! I love breakfast. And these ingredients sound awesome! Yum!
Austin H. says
Wow, that sounds great. I need to try making this sometime
Elena says
Looks so delicious! Thank you for the recipe