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:
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You continue to be a legend go to for almost any recipe I am looking for Nagi. These are so so good – give yourself another pat on the back girl! x x
Yum yum and yum!!!! I subbed a mix of red/green chopped peppers for the onions and used mozzarella because I like my cheese very mild 🙂 and these were soooo good. Paired with your magic broccoli for a super tasty light dinner!! Thanks for another awesome recipe
Excellent! We gobbled these up in no time. Super flavor and a great recipe!My wife give me 5 stars for it! Thanks for posting it up!
I’m so pleased to hear that! Thanks for letting me know Bruce! 🙂 N xx
This is the exact information that I was looking for. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
I’m pretty sure miss9 would happy dance all night long if I dished her up a plate of these 🙂
Then YOU can do the happy dance with her! 🙂
Put a couple of fried or poached eggs on top and I’ll be a very happy man!
Gagh…..yes! How could I have forgotten!! 😉
Gosh you can make hash browns look so fancy! I agree every point in the post, especially getting high quality sausage! It does make a huge difference. Sausage, eggs, veggies and some carb, my favorite combo for breakfast! This will be on our weekend menu now 🙂
Fitting right in with the Texan lifestyle Maggie! 🙂 N x
Ohhhh wow… I’m pretty sure I could eat those for breakfast, lunch, dinner, afternoon snacks…. well, just about all day long! They look so tasty, so crispy!!
ME TOO Amanda! 🙂
These look scrumptious, love crispy fried potatoes and that fact you schooled me that there are 4 food groups in there makes it all the better!
Cheese and sausage in hash browns! Umm…genius!
Thanks Sabrina! Hard to go wrong with that combo, right? 😉
Oh Nagi, you temptress! These hash browns, I have never seen their equal. All I can think of is dipping a bite into an over easy fried egg….I wasn’t going to cook up a storm this weekend…but now…. 😉
Ugh. You’ve got me….I have some frozen ones. I’m going to add egg to them for brekki today!! N x
Love how crispy these are because that is the only way to eat hash browns! 🙂
AGREED!! There is no other way! 🙂
After making J Daddy eat tofu, tempeh and quinoa all week this week, I feel I should reward him with these hash browns next week. I had already rewarded him with your Classic Italian Meatballs last night, so I’m keeping this as a surprise for him when I do write it up on the menu board. And we’ll be using chorizo, because, well, CHORIZO! I might add some grated zucchini to this too. YUM!!!
J Daddy is the luckiest guy in town. Seriously.
And chorizo….swoon! These are SO GOOD made with chorizo! If you add zucchini, squeeze it dry in the tea towel with the shredded potato 🙂
This is genius -these hash brown pancakes rock! I never make hashbrowns at home, but always get them when we have breakfast out. Will definitely try these,love how crispy and cheesy they are!
Really? Never make them at home? Gosh, if I lived in the US, I would be buyings shredded potato every week and making them at home all the time!! 🙂
I am not computer savy – I haven’t tried them yet but these cheezy hash browns look delish. My husband loves hashbrown’s , I’m sure these will be a big hit with him & me. I am going to try and sign up for your Recipe Tin Eats. Hope I can do it. Thanx Nita
Hi Nita! Hope you do try these! Let me know if you have problems signing up to get my new recipes and I’ll do it for you 🙂 Have a great weekend!
These sound like a great weekend treat!
Go on…you deserve it Barb!! You’ve worked hard all week!! 😉 N x
Pssst!! I have to whisper something — I haven’t been very good this week. 🙁 BUT!!! What the heck — these sound too good to be true and they are on the agenda for the weekend. Really, we all need to enjoy good food and when we have something that tastes good it satisfies our inner craving. You can only choke down raw broccoli for so long. Thank you for sharing such a delicious looking recipe — your photos make we want to take a bite out of my laptop screen. Have a great weekend. I’m checking my fridge and pantry to make sure I have all of the ingredients. Grazie!
Psst. Guess what? I haven’t been too good either! 🙂 Thank you for your lovely message! I hope you have a great weekend too Marisa! N x
Hi Nagi! Crispy goodness is what I say! Have you ever made hash browns in a waffle maker? If not, you should try it! They get extra crispy and are so easy! Kevin did mac ‘n cheese in the waffle maker just the other day! Have a great weekend! 🙂
I don’t have a waffle maker! Can you believe it? I saw Kevin’s Mac N Cheese. Insanely delicious!!
You really need to get a waffle machine!!! They have been on special in Good Guys $50 🙂
Great idea to use a waffle iron so they cook faster!
I was going to make potato and bacon pancakes this weekend, but I am thinking I would much rather have these – especially now after you convinced me that these are healthy! 🙂
NO!! Make potato and bacon pancakes! and PLEASE share it on your blog, I was thinking of doing it but I can just use your recipe!! 🙂
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!! 🙂