Happy healthy New Years! To start off the year, I’m sharing this delicious healthy slow cooker crockpot breakfast casserole recipe that is fantastic to make anytime friends are coming over, or for meal prep breakfasts!
Something I have always struggled with is having a healthy breakfast in the mornings. It usually takes too long to cook up something and so I end up eating whatever is around – sometimes not the healthiest.
What do your mornings look like? For me, it’s something bordering insanity, a race against the clock if you will. I wake up, get baby Ben fed/changed/etc., and then have to get out the door.
I’m trying to eat healthier, so I want to be mindful of what I’m starting my day off with.
After all, they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right?
The beauty of this recipe is that it uses al fresco chicken breakfast sausage which has 70% less fat than pork sausage and is gluten free! The al fresco chicken breakfast sausage is super flavorful, and really brings all the flavors of this breakfast casserole together.
One of the things I absolutely love about this healthy breakfast casserole is that it can be made in a variety of ways.
- It can be made as an overnight casserole – meaning you make it overnight and have it cook in the slow cooker while you sleep and then have it ready to enjoy in the morning
- The casserole can be assembled the night before, and then baked in the morning
- The casserole can be made into individual mini casseroles
This healthy breakfast casserole is fantastic for meal prepping. You make one casserole and then enjoy it all week long. I like to make this on a Sunday when I’m prepping for the week ahead.
Whichever way you make it, this slow cooker healthy breakfast casserole is packed with veggies and deliciousness, and makes for one delicious breakfast recipe.
Healthy Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole Recipe
Ingredients
Instructions
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Do you have any idea how many Smartpoints (from weight watchers) this might be?
Sorry, I do not!
I substituted frozen cauliflower for the hash browns and used turkey sausage because I had a hard time finding the chicken sausage. When I calculated the recipe I did on the app it came out to 3 pts per serving, but I still need to figure out the right cook time because without hashbrowns it cooks faster.
That’s so great that you tried it with frozen cauliflower and that it was only 3 pts per serving! I’d love to hear your cooktime after you’ve tried it
I would like to know where you can purchase those dishes
Those mini casserole dishes are amazing – I ended up buying 2 sets for the holidays when I have guests over, here is a link for them! You can also use ramekins 🙂
Hi there! : ) Have you ever doubled this recipe before? I’m thinking of using this for a potluck and would like to make more of it in my crockpot. My guess is that it will be fine and just require a little more time to cook (which is great because the potluck is a 9am brunch, and I think it should be done cooking overnight by then without having sat for several hours past being done.)
If you have doubled this and have a better idea of how long it took on low, then I would very much appreciate hearing about it : )
Thanks so much!
Yes this can be doubled if you have a large enough slow cooker
Hello! I made this recipe and it was WAY too salty. Also the onions were still crunchy. Wah, wah. I assembled the casserole in a 9×13 pan the night before and put it in the oven in the morning
If I were to make this again, I would ONLY add the 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt and omit the 1 teaspoon salt entirely. I had scaled it down to 1/2 teaspoon of each, and it was STILL too salty! I would also saute the onion before adding it to the casserole so it can soften up.
This recipe is a great jumping off point, but I wanted to add this feedback. I can tell it would be DELICIOUS with the changes I described. Thank you for the recipe.
Thank you for the comment and feedback, I’m so surprised to hear that about it being salty though, I guess it’s personal preference perhaps, because 1 teaspoon salt for all those veggies (especially potatoes) normally doesn’t make it salty.
This maybe could have something to do with the scaled down version you made? Thanks for the feedback though, I do like the idea of sautéing thing onion before adding it, I think that would be a great modification 🙂
We made it in the crock pot and it ended up very mushy and a lot of liquid in the bottom. Is there a reason for this ? I don’t think I missed anything In The recipe.
That’s so odd that it was mushy and liquidy at the bottom. I’ve honestly never had that happen (and I’ve made this casserole multiple times)…if anything, it can tend to dry out. So I’d like to help trouble shoot to see what happened. What comes to mind is to ask how much liquid you used or to ask if you used anything different than the recipe? I use frozen potatoes and frozen sausage for the recipe, but fresh veggies. Did you use frozen veggies or any different veggies? Did you cook it on low or high? And for how many hours?
Thanks again, hope we can figure out where the liquid came from, because this is such a yummy recipe, and I want it to work for you!
Can this be made without potatoes?
Yes, I’d just say you might want to reduce the cooking time a little.
Do you think leaving out the sausage to make it vegetarian change cooking time or final consistency?
I’ve made this for my vegetarian sister without the sausage and it turns out just as great! I just throw in a few more veggies (like mushrooms!)