Cindy’s Breakfast Casserole

Ingredients

• Cooking spray
• 1 (12 ounce) package bacon
• 1 teaspoon butter, or as desired
• 1 (20 ounce) package frozen cubed hash brown potatoes
• Salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 (12 ounce) package sliced fresh mushrooms
• 3 green onions, minced
• 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
• 10 eggs
• 2 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spray a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Arrange bacon slices in a single layer on a baking sheet.

Bake in the preheated oven until browned and crisp, 20 to 25 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels and transfer 1 to 2 tablespoons bacon grease to a skillet, reserving the remaining bacon grease. Add butter to skillet.

Cook and stir potatoes in the hot bacon grease-butter until lightly browned, about 10 minutes; season with salt and black pepper. Transfer potatoes to the prepared baking dish.

Heat about 1 tablespoon reserved bacon grease in the skillet over medium heat; cook and stir mushrooms until softened, 5 to 10 minutes. Layer mushrooms over potatoes.

Place green onions in the same skillet and remove from heat. Allow green onions to soften from the residual heat in skillet; layer over mushrooms. Crumble bacon over green onion layer; top with 1 cup Cheddar cheese.

Blend eggs, milk, and 1 teaspoon salt in a blender until smooth; pour over Cheddar cheese layer. Top casserole with remaining 1 cup Cheddar cheese.

Bake in the preheated oven until casserole is set and a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes.