We all love pizza, but who says it’s just for dinner? Try this Pizza Breakfast Casserole, a delicious, easy, make-ahead recipe the whole family will enjoy.
During the week, breakfasts in our home usually involve cold cereal or an occasional frozen waffle. When we have more time on the weekends, we love to create a larger heartier breakfast, like Belgian waffles, cinnamon applesauce pancakes, or egg burritos. If I’m the one doing the cooking or we’re hosting overnight guests, I gravitate toward hot breakfast recipes you prepare the night before so you don’t have to fuss in the kitchen in the morning.
Once a month, I trade recipes with Ashlyn from Belle of the Kitchen. For February, we thought it would be fun to share breakfast recipes you can make ahead of time. While I brought this recipe for Pizza Breakfast Casserole to Belle of the Kitchen a few weeks ago, Ashlyn was here sharing a delicious French Toast Casserole. Now today I get to bring you the Pizza Breakfast Casserole, so you can see how easy it is to make! It includes shredded hashbrowns and eggs covered with tomato sauce, Italian cheeses and your favorite pizza toppings.
Last summer, we hosted a “Make Your Own Pizza” party at our house where guests could choose from tons of different ingredients to top their pizza just the way they wanted. Afterwards we had small amounts of many of the ingredients leftover, so that’s where the idea for a Pizza Breakfast Casserole was born!
We love pizza for dinner, so why not try it for breakfast? To make this Pizza Breakfast Casserole, you use frozen shredded hashbrowns in a casserole dish as the base and cover it with any of your favorite pizza toppings. When I made it the first time I just used the remaining ham, sausage, pepperoni, peppers, onions and olives from the “Make Your Own Pizza” party. For this Pizza Breakfast Casserole recipe, I just mention and show pepperoni, ham, green pepper and onion in the pictures, but you can really use ANY pizza toppings you and your family like.
You then pour eggs, milk and Italian spices over the Pizza Breakfast Casserole and let it sit in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, you just make your coffee, pop the Pizza Breakfast Casserole in your oven and you’re ready to start your day. After it’s cooked a while, you add a thin layer of pizza sauce and shredded Italian cheeses to finish off the casserole and let it cook a short while longer.
Pizza Breakfast Casserole: An Easy Make-Ahead Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 cups shredded frozen hashbrowns
- 1/2 cup chopped green pepper optional
- 4 oz diced ham optional
- 1/3 cup chopped pepperoni optional
- 1/3 cup Diced Onion optional
- 6 Eggs
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 3/4 cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup shredded Italian cheeses
Instructions
- Lightly coat an 8 x 8 or 2 quart baking dish with cooking spray.
- Whisk together eggs, milk, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, pepper and salt. Pour the egg mixture over the Pizza Breakfast Casserole.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- In the morning, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Bake the Pizza Breakfast Casserole for 50 minutes.
- Remove the casserole from the oven and spread pizza sauce across the top. Sprinkle with Italian cheeses.
Serving Suggestions for Pizza Breakfast Casserole:
Just as you would order from a menu of pizza options at your favorite restaurant, you can make this casserole with any pizza toppings you choose. Here are a few suggestions to try:
- Add bacon and Italian sausage to turn it into a Meat Lovers Pizza Breakfast Casserole.
- Skip the meat and use sautéed mushrooms, red peppers and onions along with fresh tomatoes and spinach to create a Vegetable Pizza Breakfast Casserole.
- Make it a Taco Pizza Breakfast Casserole and use seasoned beef, black olives, taco sauce and cheddar cheeses.
- If you try it as a Hawaiian Pizza Breakfast Casserole, though, comment below and let me know. I’m curious how it would taste with ham and pineapple.
The options for this Pizza Breakfast Casserole are endless! It does go great with buttered toast, a cup of coffee and some orange juice, though. This Pizza Breakfast Casserole recipe can also be doubled and prepared in a 9 x 13″ baking dish, but may require more cooking time.
What’s your family’s favorite make-ahead breakfast recipe? Please comment below and share. We’re always looking for new ideas to try!
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This looks so good, I can’t wait to try it! It also seems like it could work as a freezer meal too! I’ll try it out and let you know 🙂
I’ve never tried freezing it, Erica, but I bet it would work. Let me know how it turns out. 🙂
i just made the breakfast pizza, I always .make breakfast on the weekends. My son said this was the best breakfast Ever!
Thank you
Todd, Sheboygan, WI
Hooray! Hooray! I love that your son thinks this is the best breakfast ever. Thank you so much for taking the time to circle back and let us know how the breakfast casserole turned out. Have a great Saturday, Todd!
Best wishes,
Carrie
This looks so good! Thanks for linking up on OMHG Wordless Wednesday!
Good luck and have a great week!
Carol (aka Running Granny Green)
Hi Carol! I’m so glad you came by from OMHG Wordless Wednesday to check out the recipe. Thank you!
Can’t wait to try this recipe the next time we have family over for a visit. Thanks for sharing at the This Is How We Roll Link Party on Organized 31.
Thanks, Susan! Let me know how they like it. 🙂 Enjoy!
I bet my kids would love this! Thanks for sharing it with us at #FoodieFriDIY! Sharing!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Michelle and for sharing! I hope you and the family enjoy the Pizza Breakfast Casserole. 🙂
Super yummy recipe! This looks so amazing. Pinned and tweeted. We love to party with you, so I hope to see you tonight at 7 pm.. Have an amazing day! Lou Lou Girls
Thanks, Lou Lou Girls! We really appreciate the pin and the tweet to share the recipe. 🙂
I love make ahead meals, especially breakfast. Your recipe looks yummy! Thank you very much for joining in the celebration of #purebloglove, we enjoy having you each week. I hope to see you on Thursday at 8PM, EST through Sunday night. ~Cydnee
Me too, Cyndee! I hate fussing with breakfast in the morning. Thanks for stopping by from #purebloglove!
This would be perfect for our family! Thank you so much for the inspiration and for sharing on Show Me Saturday. I can’t wait to see what you share with us this weekend!
Ashley, thanks for coming by to check out the Pizza Breakfast Casserole. I hope your family loves it! 🙂
This looks delicious! Thoughts on subbing egg whites for the eggs?
Hi Hannah, great question. I’ve often used eggs whites in place of regular eggs in baking or as scrambled eggs. I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work in this recipe too, though I haven’t tried it. I bet it would be delicious. If you try it, please come back and comment to let us know how it turned out. 🙂
Instead of the red pizza sauce, I have used either cheese sauce or sausage gravy like a typical breakfast pizza would use!!!! It turned out fantastic. Thanks for the breakfast pizza casserole idea!!
Cheese sauce or sausage gravy both sound like incredibly delicious ways to make the pizza breakfast casserole. I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe, Jennifer.
I think I can pull this off. I used to be a chef at an IHOP so I’ve always enjoyed cooking breakfast items and I like trying new things.
This recipe is so easy, Holden – even for a former iHOP chef! Just think of all the variations you could make with toppings!
bake breakfast pizza uncovered? hope so , it’s on the ocen right now. looks good!
Hi Todd, yes, I would bake this uncovered. If it starts to brown up at the end and isn’t quite done baking in the center or something you could always cover it with foil then. Enjoy!
Best wishes,
Carrie