This Creole Breakfast Egg Bake with Sausage and Potatoes is an incredibly zesty, hearty breakfast! It’s a satisfying way to start your day!
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Hey there friends.
Can you believe we’re a little over a week away from the unofficial start to summer?
Memorial Day weekend is the start of a busy season of entertaining for me, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
If you’re a regular follower here at the BHK, you know I spend the winter months testing out new recipes, so I can serve up some new dishes to all the guests that come through my kitchen all summer long.
I know this summer is going to be a bit different, but I’ll still be cooking, baking and sharing with friends and family, even if it’s from six feet away.
Summer weekends are for brunching at the beach.
And today’s Creole Breakfast Egg Bake with Sausage and Potatoes is the newest addition to our brunch menu. When I served it to our good friends Janice and Mark this winter when they came to visit us in Florida, they both gave it a huge thumbs up! “Best breakfast casserole I’ve ever had” were Janice’s exact words!
I created this recipe with the help of my good friends from Tony Chachere’s Creole Cuisine and this is my second recipe in a year long partnership with Tony’s. If you missed my first recipe, Chicken Skewers with Bacon Ranch Cole Slaw, you need to take a peek. I used Tony’s newest addition to their line of products, their Ranch Salad Dressing, and it’s now my new favorite.
Their products never fail to add a boost of flavor to any dish I’m making. And their line of products is always expanding. They make serving our families delicious, flavorful, wholesome meals super easy.
This breakfast bake takes just about 15 minutes to whip up, is loaded with sausage, tater tots, shredded cheese, pimentos, onion and Tony’s Original Creole Seasoning. I add Tony’s seasoning to so many dishes. It’s my go-to seasoning when I’m trying to jazz things up. It never fails to give that extra amount of zestiness a dish may need.
The custard base is the usual combination of eggs, milk and heavy cream. It’s baked until it’s puffy and golden brown and perfect served with toast, coffee and perhaps a bloody Mary made with Tony’s Bloody Mary Mix. I told you guys, Tony’s has it all.
Hope you add this creole breakfast egg bake to your summer brunch menu folks. It makes for great leftovers too…if there are any. Enjoy!
A Few Cook’s Notes for Creole Breakfast Egg Bake with Sausage and Potatoes Recipe:
You add the tater tots to the casserole frozen. No need to thaw.
I used 2 4-ounce jars of diced pimentos because I love pimentos. You could opt for one jar.
Drain the diced pimentos well before adding.
I used shredded cheddar cheese, but you could substitute with colby-jack, swiss or whatever is your favorite.
Creole Breakfast Egg Bake with Sausage and Potatoes
Print Recipe Pin RecipeIngredients
- 1 32-oz. bag tater tot potatoes
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 lb. bulk breakfast pork sausage
- 1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped
- 12 large eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 4-oz. jars diced pimentos, well drained
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 Tbsp. Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning
- 1 1/2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Add tater tots to dish in an even layer. Set aside.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add sausage and onion, breaking up the sausage with a wooden spoon, and cook until the sausage is no longer pink and the onion is translucent. Remove from heat and drain fat. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, heavy cream, diced pimentos, shredded cheese, Tony Chachere's Original seasoning and Dijon mustard. Add the sausage mixture and mix until well combined. Pour this mixture over the tater tots in the prepared baking dish.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes until the egg bake is lightly browned, puffy and center is set. Remove from the oven and let stand for 15 minutes before cutting into squares and serving.
New era will definitely bring new behaviour and new rules but it will definitely not keep me away from the people I love. Thank you for your hearty breakfast idea ! It will be my pleasure to share my batch with the ones I love.
Yes, we’ll all need to adjust Davorka! Can’t wait for you to try this egg bake. I bet you’ll love it!
Hubby and I do a similar dish with tater tots and we absolutely love it! It’s always a great recipe to bring along to a brunch or something like that! Super hearty and always disappear fast! This one looks so good with those sausage and potatoes. I could even enjoy this for dinner with a side salad and be quite happy :) Have a great weekend, my friend!
It’s honestly one of my favorites Dawn! Yes, we love the tater tots too! And the Tony’s Original Seasoning gives it the perfect amount of spice!
Any recipe that includes tater tots would be a hit in my house! I’m looking forward to finally entertaining again, and since brunch is my fave meal to prepare and serve, I’ll be sure to add this one to the list!
Lol! Ours too Leanne! This is a brunch menu WINNER!
We’ll be doing the same this summer, Mary Ann! Bring on the sunshine!!
We’re always up for a hearty breakfast bake and this one looks incredible! Love that kick of creole spice!
Thanks so much Marissa! Tony’s products always supply such great flavor!
I loooove a good sausage and egg casserole! Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, you went and added tater tots!!!! And, creole seaaoning! Oh my!!!! I’m drooling! I am absolutely making this as soon as humanly possible! Pinned!
Can’t beat a tater tot breakfast casserole Chey! And the Tony’s seasoning gives it that zesty flavor!
I think I have almost everything I need for this! I might have to make it this weekend. We love all breakfast foods!
Yay! Hope you give it a try Katherine! Bet you’ll love it!
So many good things in one delicious dish – what a way to start the day! I can honestly say I have never eaten a breakfast bake with such lovely flavours – I cannot wait to give it a try!
Such a satisfying breakfast Alex! One of our faves for sure!
It’s our long weekend this weekend here in Canada, so I’m going to put this one on the menu to celebrate now. Looks delicious!
Enjoy Jennifer!
YES to pimentos! I love the ease of this dish, and those tater tots? I’m SO in! I made a similar dish like this during winter and I thought Rob was going to flip out! LOL! The addition of Creole seasoning flips my switch!
Tom and I love this one! And so did our friends Traci!
subbed pimentos for sautéed jalapeños, and lightened this up a little by using whole milk instead of cream. topped it with Crystal hot sauce when I served and, oh boy, what a hit! declined to tell my guests how easy this dish was, what they don’t know won’t hurt ’em.
So happy you enjoyed it Tracy! It’s always a hit here too. Great substitutions!
So outstanding! It’s my go-to breakfast casserole for family or just my husband and I!
So happy you guys enjoy it!!
This recipe looks wonderful. I am wondering if I can substitute andouille sausage for the pork sausage? What do you think?
Hi Anna. You could try it with the andouille sausage. I would dice it up. Let me know!
have you ever prepared this ahead and baked the next day? also was thinking of using cajun sausage sliced for the ground sausage, which might then be a good idea of cutting back on cajun seasoning?
Hi Tricia. This egg bake can be prepared and refrigerated up to 12 hours in advance and then baked. If you want to use Cajun sausage, I think maybe two teaspoons of the Tony’s seasoning would work. Enjoy!