How do you make a hash brown even better? Load it up with cheese and sausage! These Sausage Hash Browns are crispy, cheesy and utterly irresistible – everyone will be fighting over them!
Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns
You’ve been really good all week, right? Plenty of salads, keeping it clean, minimal meat, been to the gym, cutting down on carbs and only had the odd very small sweet treats.
OK, maybe you haven’t. But it doesn’t matter!! The weekend is here, you deserve a treat and it’s time to stop counting calories! 🙂
Besides, you know what I just realised? Four of the five essential food groups are present:
1. Dairy – cheese
2. Grains – flour
3. Lean proteins – egg
4. Vegetables – potato AND greens (in the form of scallions / shallots)
Did I just convince myself this is healthy? Wow. Giving myself a pat on the back for creating such a well rounded breakfast for you! 😉
These are made a little differently to the usual hash browns. Classic hash browns are made very simply with shredded potato, butter, salt and pepper, then pan fried in (plenty of) oil until beautiful and crispy. One of the greatest inventions this world has ever seen (along with cheese, ice cream, coffee and wine).
With the addition of sausage and cheese, the shredded potato doesn’t hold together as well so I add an egg and a wee bit of flour to bind the mixture together. It still comes out beautifully crispy and you won’t even notice the batter as there is only a little bit of it!
Please get the best sausages you can afford! It really makes a difference. The really good value sausages you can get at the supermarket that are a very pale pink are made with lots of fillers so the actual meat in the sausage is far less than you would imagine. I am not a sausage snob! I’ve never been able to walk past a sausage sizzler fundraiser without getting one (outside Bunnings on weekends – sound familiar to fellow Aussies reading this? 😉 ). I mean – it’s for CHARITY. Of course I have to get one!
But for making something like this, the sausage needs to be a decent quality sausage because it is the flavour base. Sausages are like wine – you get what you pay for!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Are you cooking up a storm this weekend? I sure am! Kitchen chaos – here I come! – Nagi x
I love a good sausage recipe!
Sausages are a great shortcut way to a quick tasty meal because they’re loaded with extra flavour. Think beyond just cooking them whole – squeeze the meat out and cook it like mince meat!
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Sausage Bake with Potatoes and Gravy – a one pan recipe
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Beef and Sausage Ragu – an incredible luxurious pasta sauce
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Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns
PS This is also sensational made with chorizo. Ugh. It's so good that it's painful!
Ingredients
- 1 lb / 500g potato , about two large (Note 1)
- 2 1/2 tbsp oil
- 8 oz / 250g sausage , remove from casings (the best quality you can afford)
- 3/4 cup grated cheddar cheese (or any other melting cheese, but not mozzarella)
- 1/2 cup sliced scallions/shallots (green and white part)
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup flour
- Pepper
Instructions
- Peel and shred the potato using a standard box grater.
- Place the potato in a colander and run under cold water for 10 seconds, or until the water runs clear.
- Shake off excess water, then transfer the potato to a clean tea towel. Bundle it up and squeeze hard to remove excess water, then transfer to a bowl.
- Heat 1/2 tbsp of oil in a skillet over high heat. Cook the sausage, breaking it up as you go (like cooking ground meat/mince).
- Add sausage to potatoes. Add remaining ingredients and mix to combine.
- Wipe the skillet clean with a paper towel, discarding excess fat. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a skillet over medium high heat.
- Place 1/4 cup of mixture in the skillet, and use the base of the cup measure to pat it down to about 8mm / 1/3" thickness. Repeat for however many you can fit in the skillet.
- Cook until deep golden brown (about 3 minutes), then flip and cook the other side until golden brown and crispy.
- Remove onto a rack and place in a low oven to keep warm while you cook the remaining hash browns.
- Serve hot, garnished with extra scallions/shallots if desired.
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
You just took, what I thought was already the perfect food (hash browns) and elevated them to an a level that is unrecognizable by any unit of measurement! And I love your justification for healthy benefits – covering the major food groups… sounds like my kind of logic.
I know brunch is supposed to be an event that is shared by others, but I would totally make these just for myself and I might even throw some elbows to keep it that way 😉 Hope you have a wonderful weekend my dear.
Thanks Kathleen! You too 🙂 Looking forward to your next creation. I made your green goddess dip last night!! SO good. We didn’t even need dinner!! 🙂
You are killing me Nagi, my breakfast of watermelon and cookies now seems so boring and unfair. These look so crispy, God I love has browns and when you say that they are CHEESY, well, I just have to make them for myself. Pinning!
Cookies for breakfast? *Ears perk up!* Doesn’t sound too boring to ME! 🙂
Guess what? I have friends visiting this weekend and was just sitting here daydreaming about what I could make for Saturday breakfast. I was going to do just a classic British brekky, but now I’m seriously tempted to make these instead.
I heard all about the sausage sizzler when I was in Oz. Seems like it’s EVERYONE’S favourite! (along with meat pies and sauce!) I never tried it, but obviously I missed out!!
Have a great weekend youself, Nagi! 🙂
WHAT? You never had a Bunnings sausage sizzle? OK, we’ve gotta change that the minute you get back to OZ!! 🙂
Well I will imagine I am having them for breakfast tomorrow because I only saw this so are on a Friday night I dont have the ingredients. If I did this is how I would start off my day
I KNEW you would approve of this! 😉 N x
I am with you on the sausage sizzle…..I have been known to put the kids in the car and drive the 30 minutes to bunnings, just to buy a sausage sizzle!!! When it is a rainy day and they are bored of being indoors a trip to bunnings is always a good idea 🙂
These look scrummy! I love hash browns (You knew I would right??!?!?) but with cheese and sausage……..complete meal in one delicious bite. So good!
We are really lucky, we have a new butchers opened up in one of the shopping centres near my boys school. They make the most amazing sausages. So meaty and delicious. Their moroccan lamb ones are amazing!!!
They do a pork, maple and bacon sausage that I think would be great in these hashes.
Pinning this, these are not just for breakfast, these are dinner material…….maybe with a poached egg on top.
YUMMY x
Pork maple and BACON sausages? Your butcher is GENIUS!! 🙂 Hope you have a fab weekend Claire! N x
Ooooh, I’m drooling at those crispy, cheesy edges. 🙂 What perfect weekend comfort food. 🙂
Thanks Krista! Hope you’re taking some down time and not working too hard on the farm! 🙂