This easy recipe uses frozen shredded potatoes (hash browns), and no sugar sausage links, so you’ll make enough to serve a crowd without much work. It’s time to dig into this easy oven baked breakfast casserole!
Where to find Whole30 compliant frozen hashbrowns?
This is a tough one, but there are a couple of options out there. While most frozen shredded potatoes include non-compliant ingredients, here are a couple that don’t:
Eggs and doing a Whole30
I know that eggs are popular when doing a Whole30. But what if you can’t eat eggs or are just tired of eating eggs every day for breakfast? Luckily for you, we’ve created a lot of breakfast recipes that will work with or without eggs. We’ve even rounded up a list of 30 Whole30 breakfasts without eggs. You can add this new breakfast hashbrown casserole recipe to the list!
Breakfast Hashbrown Casserole (Paleo + Whole30)
Ingredients
For the casserole:
- 2 tbsp ghee, (sub avocado or other oil for dairy free)
- 2 lbs frozen shredded potatoes
- 1 package No Sugar All Natural Pork Breakfast Sausage Little Links, thawed
- 1 onion, diced
- 4 cups spinach, roughly chopped, (can sub kale or other greens)
- Chopped chives, (optional topping)
For the creamy sauce:
- 1 cup chicken broth, (or beef broth)
- 1 tbsp fresh sage, diced, (about 3-4 leaves) (or sub 2 tsp dried sage)
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 2 cups raw cashews
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400° Fahrenheit and grease a 9×13 baking dish with ghee.
- Spread the shredded potatoes (hash browns) out in the baking dish. Place in the oven to bake for 10 minutes.
- While the potatoes start to bake, prepare onion and spinach as noted and make the sauce.
- To make the sauce, place all of the sauce ingredients in a high powered blender. Blend until smooth and creamy and set aside.
- After the potatoes have cooked for 10 minutes, remove the baking dish from the oven. Add the onion and spinach to the dish. Pour the creamy sauce over everything. Using a spoon or spatula, mix the ingredients together so the sauce mixes in with everything.
- Add the sausage links on top of the casserole. Place back into the oven to bake for 20 minutes. If desired, turn the oven to broil for the last 3-4 minutes to brown the top of the sausages.
- Remove from the oven and top with diced chives (optional). Allow to cool for a few minutes before serving. Enjoy.
Notes
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Do you cook the onions and or spinach before putting it on top of the hash browns?
Nope, they cook in the oven for 20 minutes after adding them in. Enjoy!
I made this for this week’s breakfast’s, what an amazing dish. Simple to prepare as well. The only thing I changed was using bulk sausage in lieu of links…came out really good. Will be trying many more of your recipes. Thanks for all the Whole 30/Paleo recipes…they really help with meal prep variety.
You’re very welcome, glad you enjoyed the recipe. Thanks for coming back to leave a rating and review, we really appreciate it 🙂
This looks really yummy, but we can’t have the yeast or nuts. Do you think anything else would be a good Substitute?
That’s a little tough since the cashews are the base for the sauce. If you can have other nuts besides cashews you could sub either walnuts, almonds or macadamia nuts. Also, the nutritional yeast is an inactive yeast if that helps. Sorry if this one won’t work, but we have other breakfast casseroles in our breakfast category that might!
Delicious! Thank you
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed this one :).
Amazing dish!
So glad you liked this one Andrea.