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How to Make the Best Mexican Breakfast Casserole

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This is a make Ahead Mexican Breakfast Casserole with tortillas and is a spin-off of a Tex Mex Breakfast Casserole idea.  It’s an easy Overnight Mexican Breakfast Casserole spiced up with both Hatch green chile and sliced jalapenos.

Mexican Breakfast Casserole, Tex Mex Breakfast Casserole
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We totally love a great Make Ahead breakfast casserole and since we also love Tex Mex recipes we decided to bring those two loves together in this Tex Mex Breakfast Casserole.    This overnight Mexican breakfast casserole has layers of seasoned breakfast sausage, tortillas, Monterey Jack cheese, and green chile.

 

 

It’s topped with cheese and sliced jalapenos to make one of the best Mexican Breakfast Casseroles we have ever tried.   We are bringing our love of New Mexico and Texas together with this dish.   If it is too spicy then the jalapenos can be left off.
During the holidays or when we have company here at the Ranch, it’s always nice to throw together a breakfast casserole the night before.   It makes the mornings so much nicer to be able to sit on the front porch and watch the sunrise as breakfast is cooking.    We are able to enjoy our guest so much more when our morning starts off with this delicious casserole but we didn’t have to spend much time in the kitchen.
We normally serve this with our Homemade Roasted Jalapeno Salsa and even a Mimosa for special occasions.
Tex Mex Breakfast Casserole, Overnight Mexican Casseroles
This Mexican Breakfast Casserole is absolutely delicious and great for company.   But we don’t wait for company to arrive to enjoy those south of the Border flavors.   This is great reheated the next day and we have even had it for dinner.


Print Recipe

Overnight Mexican Breakfast Casserole

Make Ahead Mexican Breakfast Casserole with tortillas, sausage, Hatch green chile and jalapenos
Prep Time20 mins
Cook Time1 hr 20 mins
Overnight resting6 hrs
Total Time1 hr 40 mins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Mexican, Tex Mex
Keyword: Make Ahead Mexican Breakfast Casserole, Overnight Mexican Breakfast Casserole, Tex Mex Breakfast Casserole
Author: Evelyn

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Spray a 9 X 13 pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside
  • In a large skillet, cook the sausage and onions until the meat is brown and the onions are cooked.   Add the chili powder stir to combine, and remove from heat. 
  • Layer 1/2 cup of the green chile (or 505 if using) sprinkle on 1/3 cup of the sausage mixture and cover with 1/2 of the cut corn tortilla pieces.  Sprinkle  1 cup of cheese over top.  
  • Repeat step 3 then finished casserole with the last third of the sausage and 1/2 cup of green chile.  Top with 1 cup of cheese. 
  • Beat eggs, milk, salt and pepper in a large bowl.  Gently pour over casserole evenly covering the entire dish.
  • Cover and refrigerate overnight or at least for 6 hours.  Before baking remove from fridge and let come to room temperature about 1 hour. 
  • Bake in  350 degree preheated oven for 80 minutes.   Cover with foil the last 30 minutes to prevent the casserole from becoming over browned.  
  • Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes before slicing.

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Comments

  8. Jackie

    January 15, 2013 at 12:49 am

    I love anything that has a Mexican flavor to it and this sounds and looks incredible. I am going to try this.

    I am here visiting you from the GFC blog hop. I am now following you and I subscribed to your feed, added you on my Google Plus and I am following you on Twitter! Oh yes, I joined you on Mr. Linky also! I love your blog!

    I hope you can find the time to stop over and visit me too. http://expressionsneeded.blogspot.com/

    I hope you had a lovely day and that you will have a great week!:-)

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  22. mail4rosey

    January 18, 2013 at 12:14 pm

    This would be a big hit for lunch in our house! I have a meat and potatoes for breakfast husband. The kids like pancakes or cereal (easy peasy). 🙂

    Thanks for sharing the recipe.

    Reply

  36. HungryLittleGirl

    January 20, 2013 at 10:22 pm

    With a dish like this I want to have breakfast all day long – YUM!
    Thank you so much for sharing this at Wednesday Extravaganza – hope to see you there again next week – and don't forget the voting is today!

    Reply

  40. Michelle

    January 22, 2013 at 2:29 am

    Mexican food for breakfast is a great idea. Much more my style than pancakes or biscuits. Not that I wouldn't eat pancakes, but…you know.
    Thank you for linking w/ See Ya in the Gumbo again this week!

    Reply

  43. Kathy Moody

    January 23, 2013 at 3:31 am

    We love Mexican food around my house, and this looks so delicious!! Thank you so much for sharing at A Bouquet of Talent this week. Have a wonderful week. 🙂

    Hugs
    Kathy

    Reply

  44. M.J. Powell

    January 23, 2013 at 7:55 pm

    Hi,
    We found you from the Six Sisters Blog Hop. You have some great ideas and we would like for you to share with our readers too. We are hosting our first link party tomorrow and we would like to invite you to link up with us. We have a fun blog to co-host with us. Hope to see you there.

    Thanks!
    The Busy Bee's,
    Myrna and Joye.

    http://thebusybhive.blogspot.com/

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  46. Danni Baird @ Silo Hill Farm

    January 26, 2013 at 11:06 am

    Oh my gosh! This looks so good! I love a good breakfast casserole and I really love that this one includes refried beans! Yumm! Pinned it! Following you via GFC (which I kind of thought I already was, but apparently not) and looking forward to more!

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  54. Karen Goodman

    October 27, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    I LOVE this recipe, and it would be perfect for my new link party. This link party is called 'Required Ingredient Recipe Link Party' and I'll be holding it every Sunday, starting right now.

    The idea is to focus on a single ingredient each week and I'm starting off with cheese because everyone loves cheese!

    I'm planning to do a ton of promotion to get this link party off the ground, so any recipes you post should get lots of attention.

    Regardless of if you link up or not, I'm pinning this recipe! Yum!

    Hope to see you at the link party…
    http://futureexpat.com/2013/10/required-ingredient-cheese/

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  56. Kerry C

    December 17, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    This is a great combination of Mexican cuisine and quiche. I am definitely going to have to try this. We have breakfast for dinner quite often and I think this will be a big hit. Thanks for sharing on Saturday Dishes.

    Reply

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