This low carb breakfast casserole will help take your eggs to the next level!
When you follow a low carb, LCHF or ketogenic diet, you find that you end up eating a lot of eggs. Eggs for breakfast. Eggs for lunch. Even eggs for dinner. So you search for creative options to give you some variety with your recipes.
I like to use eggs sausage and cheese to make an easy breakfast casserole or a breakfast strata. Depending on what you add to it, it can work for any meal and really you have a limitless variety of meal options. Plus it serves a lot and is very filling so you can turn it into multiple meals or serve the whole family for a single meal.
Success tip: there is nothing worse than your egg casserole sticking to the pan. You can grease it with butter which is messy. You can use a butter spray or other non-stick spray filled with nasty chemicals.
Or you can get a natural spray that contains nothing but oil - olive oil spray, coconut oil spray, grapeseed oil spray or avocado oil spray. All are healthy fats that will keep your casserole from sticking and add great flavor.
My favorite is the avocado oil. It's just delicious, but grapeseed oil is yummy too.
For any of the spray oils, make sure they don't use a propellant, and if you can get organic, that's the best, but at least aim for non-GMO with the oil, or a blend of oils as the only ingredient. I avoid canola oil altogether because of how much it is processed but canola should always be non-GMO or organic.
Before we get to the breakfast casserole recipe, you can find more great low carb recipes in any of these books. I have them all and they are great! Or try out my breakfast frittata recipe. It's easy and delicious! My egg casserole recipe is good too.
Sausage and Egg Low Carb Breakfast Casserole
(scroll to bottom for printable recipe)
- ground pork or ground pizza sausage
- shredded mozzarella cheese
- eggs
- salt
- pepper
- Italian seasoning (optional)
You can add veggies to this low carb breakfast casserole with sausage or serve it with a red sauce or a cream sauce. Also, you could use a pie dish or double the recipe and make a much larger casserole. You can even bake it in a cast iron pan! The possibilities are endless! Or, you can also slice this up to make it easy to reheat the slices for breakfast all week.
For more delicious breakfast ideas check out these additional baked eggs recipes especially my egg muffins. If you need a low carb dinner idea, check out my low carb chicken enchilada casserole recipe. It's amazing and gets grave reviews.
Cook up some bacon ahead of time and cut it up and add it for extra deliciousness! You can add a scoop of sour cream on the top for extra flavor too.
Low Carb Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground pork or ground pizza sausage
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 6 large eggs
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon pepper
- ⅛ teaspoon Italian seasoning - optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Brown sausage in a skillet.
- Whisk together eggs, seasonings and shredded cheese.
- Drain sausage and allow to cool.
- Blend sausage and egg mixture and pour into a 9" pie pan.
- Bake for 45-55 minutes or until firm.
Notes
Patti
If I only used a 1/2 pound of sausage, what quantity of fresh veggies would I use to make up the difference?
730 Sage Street
Hi Patti, thanks sharing. In this case I think it would depend what your using and how. If I was to stretch this I think I'd simply include 1 large onion while browning the sausage.
1/2 lb Sausage, 1 Large Onion and onion tends to work well with eggs and casseroles.
Beyond that I would have to experiment with this, possibly broccoli, and maybe even bell peppers (red, yellow). These would certainly add a nice twist and give the dish a nice color/flavor boost.
Of course let me know how it turns out!
Hayley
Is the nutritional facts a rough estimate based on 1 slice?
Kim
Hi Hayley, it's based on 1/6th of the casserole.
Suzanne
Looks fantastic! Did I miss this - does it rewarm easily if we made it Sunday night and had it for breakfast for several days?
Kim
Yes! I did this, it was amazing. I reheat it with a little butter on top. Yum!
Carol
What size pan to bake the casserole in
Kim
9" pie pan!
Kristina
1 slice is 408 calories? Do I have that right?
Kim
It's probably high, that's why I always recommend you double check it.
Nita
I always have left over for breakfast th next day. Just put it in th microwave for a minute. Delicious. One slice has 119 calories and 1 gm of carbs. .
karen
can you make ahead and reheat?
Lana
For more low fat and heart healthy, I will substitute Egg Beaters. 😉
Niyah
Can you freeze this?
Kimberly Grabinski
I would think so!
Brianna
How much protein per serving?
Kimberly Grabinski
You'll have to plug the recipe into My Fitness Pal or some other nutrition calculator, depending upon the actual ingredients you use, it may vary so I prefer people do their own calculations.
Lynn
Tried this today and I really liked it..I take my low carb a step further and do not eat sugar so I make my own sausage and it was really good with it. The only thing I would do different is I think next time Im going to do a mozzarella/cheddar mix instead of all mozzarella. I omitted the italian seasoning and I'm glad I did. awesome recipe..thanks
Terri
How many carbs per serving?
sharon powell
I come up with about 2 to 3 carbs per serving.
Paula Poindexter
Thank You!
Gina
Can you tell me what the fat and calorie count would be per serving?
Sounds delicious!
Kimberly Grabinski
If you use My Fitness Pal you can plug it in there, or there are other online nutrition calculators.
alexx366
This isn t your typical hash brown filled, boring casserole, it s the low carb breakfast casserole that you ll get requests for seconds and raves from your pickiest eaters.