This fun recipe combines all the goodness of your favorite breakfast items in one pot. Think breakfast sausage, cheese, hash browns, eggs, more cheese and biscuits to top it all off. It’s an easy one-pot Dutch Oven breakfast that can feed an army. Feel free to add veggies like sautéd onions, green peppers, or mushrooms.
Ingredients
- 16 oz ground breakfast sausage or sausage links
- 30 oz frozen hash browns or diced potatoes
- 12 eggs
- 2 Cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 can biscuit dough or homemade biscuit mix
- salt and pepper to taste
- Optional:
- 1/2 cup onions
- 1/2 cup mushrooms
- 1/2 cup green peppers
PREP TIME – 15 minutes
COOK TIME – 45 minutes
TOTAL TIME – 1 hour
Instructions
- Prepare the coals, about 24 will do for a 10″ Dutch Oven.
- Begin by browning the sausage and sautéing any veggies
- Remove from heat and add the potatoes
- Then add 12 eggs as a layer on top of potatoes. We usually just crack the eggs right into the pot without scrambling to save on dishes to wash. This is also where we add any veggies.
- Sprinkle on cheddar cheese
- Then place your biscuit mix as the final layer on top.
- Cover the Dutch Oven placing 8-10 coals on the bottom and 12-14 on the lid. Cook for 45 minutes or until cooked throughout
Placing the Coals
The perfect amount of briquettes is based on your Dutch Oven diameter. For example, if you are using a 10″ Dutch Oven, you will need two coals per inch, or a total of 20. To figure out how many coals to place on and under you oven all you need to do is remember the number 2.
For the lid you’ll want to place 2 more than the oven size on the lid and for underneath you’ll want to place 2 less than the oven size. So for our 10″ dutch oven we would place 12 on the lid and 8 on the bottom. For a 12″ dutch oven you would place 14 on the lid and 10 on the bottom. This works out to about a 350 degree oven which is just right for most recipes.
