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Melissa Hart

Sausage and Cream Cheese Crescent Roll Breakfast Casserole

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings: 8
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 tsp unsalted butter
  • 2 cans refrigerated crescent dough sheets 8 oz each
  • 1 lb bulk pork breakfast sausage
  • 1 small yellow onion finely diced
  • 6 oz cream cheese cubed
  • 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1 large egg beaten

Method
 

  1. Heat oven to 375°F; butter metal 9-by-13-inch pan. Press one dough sheet over bottom; bake 8 minutes until surface dry.
  2. Meanwhile, brown sausage and onion in skillet over medium-high 10 minutes, crumbling meat, to 160°F. Drain fat.
  3. Reduce to low; stir in cream cheese, mustard, and pepper until cheese melts. Spread evenly over partly baked crust.
  4. Lay second dough sheet over filling; gently stretch to cover. Brush with beaten egg; cut six short top slits.
  5. Bake 20 to 25 minutes until deeply golden and bottom crust firm when lifted at corner. Rest 15 minutes; cut eight squares.