Breakfast Strata

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 75 min
Servings: 8
Yield: 8 servings

Description

Eggs, Cheddar cheese, sausage, mushrooms, and bread are baked into a crowd-pleasing, breakfast strata even your pickiest of eaters will be going back for seconds.

Ingredients

1 pound sausage, casings removed
2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
10 cups cubed, day-old bread
8 eggs, beaten
3 cups whole milk
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1 1/2 cups cubed Black Forest ham
1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons mustard powder
2 teaspoons butter, melted
2 teaspoons dried basil
1 teaspoon salt

Directions

1 Generously grease a 9x13-inch casserole dish.
2 Heat a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir sausage until crumbly and completely browned, about 10 minutes. Transfer cooked sausage to the prepared casserole dish.
3 Cook and stir mushrooms in the same skillet over medium heat until liquid has been released and mushrooms are lightly browned, 5 to 10 minutes; drain.
4 Combine mushrooms, bread, eggs, milk, Cheddar cheese, ham, spinach, flour, dry mustard, butter, basil, and salt together in a large bowl; pour over sausage. Cover casserole dish and refrigerate, 2 hours to overnight.
5 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
6 Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, 60 to 70 minutes.