Christmas Breakfast Pizza

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Servings: 8
Yield: 8 servings

Description

Sausage, eggs, crescent rolls, and cheese snuggle down in a casserole, chill overnight, and bake in the morning in this recipe for Christmas breakfast pizza.

Ingredients

1 pound ground pork sausage
1 (8 ounce) package refrigerated crescent roll dough, or as needed
8 ounces mild Cheddar cheese, shredded
6 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
ground black pepper to taste

Directions

1 Heat a skillet over medium heat. Crumble sausage into skillet; cook and stir until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease. Cool sausage.
2 Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish. Line the baking dish with crescent roll dough.
3 Sprinkle cooled sausage and Cheddar cheese over crescent roll dough. Cover the baking dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
4 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
5 Whisk eggs, milk, salt, and black pepper together in a bowl. Pour egg mixture over sausage and cheese in the baking dish. Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil.
6 Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Remove and discard aluminum foil and reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Continue baking until egg mixture is set, 15 to 25 minutes.