I love baking Sourdough bread. Me and most of the Internet, right? Spending hours shaping and stretching the dough is one of my favorite things to do in the kitchen. Weekly I try my hand at some sourdough creation or another, and while my family usually takes down a whole loaf with a pot of soup, without fail most weeks we end up with an extra bread. When I worked in a French restaurant a decade ago, we used to take home extra loaves each night. It was a fabulous way for a poor cook to afford a healthy dinner, and I came up with oodles of recipe to use up the free bread. Breakfast Strata was a favorite.
Combined with sausage responsibly sourced from a small family farm, eggs from my chickens and raw cheddar cheese, well, you couldn’t ask for a better way to start out the day. Give this recipe a try on a rainy weekend morning, it’ll really stick to your bones!
Sourdough Sausage Breakfast Strata
DifficultyEasy
Servings8-10
Prep time15 minutes
Cook time20 minutes
Total time35 minutes
I love baking Sourdough bread. Me and most of the Internet, right? Spending hours shaping and stretching the dough is one of my favorite things to do in the kitchen. Weekly I try my hand at some sourdough creation or another, and while my family usually takes down a whole loaf with a pot of soup, without fail most weeks we end up with an extra bread. When I worked in a French restaurant a decade ago, we used to take home extra loaves each night. It was a fabulous way for a poor cook to afford a healthy dinner, and I came up with oodles of recipe to use up the free bread. Breakfast Strata was a favorite.
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 loaf Sourdough bread, preferably homemade, diced into cubes
- 1 ea yellow onion, diced
- 1 lb breakfast sausage
- 8 ea eggs
- 3 Tbsp kefir, plain
- 1 cup raw cheddar cheese, grated
- 1 Tbsp fresh parsley
- salt + pepper, to taste
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Dice onion and cook in olive oil in a cast-iron skillet until translucent. Add sausage and cook until brown. Remove from heat.
- 2
While sausage and onion cook, dice your bread into 1″ x 1″ cubes. Toss them into a 9″ x 13″ pan. Add the sausage and onion mixture and stir until combined.
- 3
Mix your eggs and kefir, season with salt + pepper and pour over the bread mixture.
- 4
Top with cheese and fresh parsley, and another layer of salt and pepper.
- 5
Bake at 375 degrees F until cheese is golden and bubbly (check after 15 minutes) and egg mixture is set. Enjoy!
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Keywords:Breakfast Strata, Healthy Breakfast, Sausage, Sourdough Recipes, Sourdough Strata, Sourdough
