All You Need Breakfast Casserole

Time :1

Yield :6 servings

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The perfect breakfast: savory, sweet, and hearty enough to get you through the day (or at least until lunch, which can feel like an eternity some days). Put down the cereal bowl; you deserve something more memorable and more filling than that! A day like today calls for the All You Need Breakfast Casserole! Filled with playfully seasoned sausage and crunchy hashbrowns, there's only one thing that could make this meal better: pancakes! A tender, fluffy pancake topping already infused with smoky sweet maple flavor makes sure All You Need Breakfast Casserole really does have everything you need for the day!

Ingredients

1 pound ground pork breakfast sausage
1 cup yellow onion diced
4 cups frozen diced hash brown potatoes
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder
2 cups buttermilk pancake mix
1 1/2 cups water
1 teaspoon maple extract

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
In a large sauté pan over medium-high heat, add the sausage and the onion.
Crumble the sausage and cook until the onion is translucent and softened and the sausage is browned, about 5-7 minutes.
Add the hash brown potatoes, the salt, the pepper, and the onion powder to the pan, stirring well and cooking until the hash browns have mostly thawed, about 3 minutes.
Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish, spreading it out evenly.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine the pancake mix, the water, and the maple extract, whisking until no large lumps remain (smaller lumps are okay and encouraged).
Pour the pancake batter over the potato and sausage mixture in the baking dish.
Bake the casserole until the pancake layer is golden brown across the top, about 36-40 minutes.
Serve!