Description
Hearty sausage and egg casserole delivers comfort on cold mornings with layers of savory ingredients. Cheesy, satisfying dish combines breakfast favorites for a crowd-pleasing meal you’ll crave again and again.
Ingredients
Scale
- 8 breakfast sausages (pork, turkey, or chicken), fully cooked
- 1 egg
- 1 cup (240 ml) pancake mix
- 1 can (8 oz / 226 g) refrigerated crescent roll dough
- ½ tsp (2.5 ml) cinnamon (optional)
- ½ cup (120 ml) milk
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) melted butter (for brushing)
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) maple syrup (optional)
- ½ tsp (2.5 ml) vanilla extract (optional)
- Cooking spray or butter (for greasing the pan)
Instructions
- Dough Preparation: Meticulously unroll crescent dough and separate triangles with precision, creating a uniform base for sausage wrapping.
- Sausage Encasement: Strategically roll each sausage within a crescent triangle, starting from the wide end and moving towards the pointed tip, ensuring a snug fit with the seam facing downward.
- Initial Baking: Place wrapped sausages on a baking sheet and brush with melted butter, then bake in a preheated oven at 375F (190C) for 12-15 minutes until achieving a golden-brown exterior.
- Batter Creation: Whisk pancake mix, milk, egg, and vanilla extract together, allowing the mixture to rest for 5 minutes to develop depth of flavor.
- Coating Process: Thoroughly dip each baked sausage into the prepared batter, ensuring complete and even coverage.
- Final Cooking: Choose between skillet or air fryer method – in a skillet, cook battered sausages 2-3 minutes per side; in an air fryer, preheat to 375F and cook for 6-8 minutes, rotating midway.
- Serving Suggestion: Plate the crispy, golden sausages with an array of accompaniments like maple syrup, jam, honey butter, mustard, ketchup, or a delicate dusting of powdered sugar.
Notes
- Dough Handling Tip: Ensure crescent dough is cold but slightly pliable for easier wrapping around sausages without tearing.
- Sealing Technique: Press edges firmly when rolling sausages to prevent unwrapping during baking, creating a perfect seal.
- Batter Consistency Trick: Let pancake batter rest for exact 5 minutes to develop smoother texture and help coating adhere better to sausages.
- Temperature Control: Monitor oven and air fryer heat closely to achieve golden-brown exterior without burning delicate pastry or batter coating.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 276
- Sugar: 3 g
- Sodium: 800 mg
- Fat: 18 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 10 g
- Cholesterol: 69 mg