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Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns

By:Nagi
Published:21 Aug '15Updated:18 Mar '19
47 Comments
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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!

Stack of Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns

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! 😉

Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns in a skillet

Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns - a step up from the usual hash browns! Great for making ahead.

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

Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns on a plate, ready to be eaten.

I love a good sausage recipe!

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Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns - a step up from the usual hash browns! Great for making ahead.

Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hash Browns

Author: Nagi | RecipeTin Eats
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 18 mins
Total: 28 mins
Breakfast, Brunch, Party Food
5 from 11 votes
Servings13 - 15
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Loaded hash browns! These are made with sausage and cheese mixed throughout the shredded potato, then panfried until golden. Great for make ahead and as finger food for parties! !
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:

1. You need to use starchy potatoes for hash browns as they breakdown when cooked, becoming nice and fluffy on the inside and golden and crunchy on the outside. The best to use are Russet (common in the US), dutch creams, King Edwards or red delight. However, great all rounders like golden delight, coliban, red rascal and Sebago (popular in Australia) still work great.
I use Sebago which are the brushed potatoes you can get from any supermarket in Australia (ie. the ones with dirt on them). If you are based in the US, a great all rounder to use is Russet which I understand is one of the most widely used potatoes in the US.
You can use frozen shredded potato if you wish (not available in Australia, as far as I know!)
2. To make ahead, cook them until they are pale golden, not as golden as in the photo. Let them cool then place in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer. To reheat, panfrying them will yield the crispiest hash browns (defrost the frozen ones). However, they are still pretty crispy reheated in the oven! Bake at 200C/390F for 8 minutes (if defrosted) to 12 minutes (if frozen), or until deep golden brown and crispy.
3. Nutrition per hash brown. Not as bad as I thought! Unless you can't stop at 4, 5, 6, 8.
Crispy Cheesy Sausage Hashbrowns

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 62gCalories: 129cal (6%)Carbohydrates: 7.3g (2%)Protein: 5.6g (11%)Fat: 8.6g (13%)Saturated Fat: 2.9g (18%)Trans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 29mg (10%)Sodium: 230mg (10%)Potassium: 197mg (6%)Fiber: 0.8g (3%)Vitamin A: 100IU (2%)Vitamin C: 9.1mg (11%)Calcium: 50mg (5%)Iron: 0.7mg (4%)
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47 Comments

  1. Priscilla says

    October 25, 2020 at 5:51 pm

    5 stars
    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

    Reply
  2. Bruce says

    April 4, 2017 at 9:51 am

    5 stars
    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!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      April 5, 2017 at 10:58 am

      I’m so pleased to hear that! Thanks for letting me know Bruce! 🙂 N xx

      Reply
  3. diamondscateringservices says

    September 21, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    This is the exact information that I was looking for. Thank you for sharing your expertise!

    Reply
  4. THE HUNGRY MUM says

    August 27, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    I’m pretty sure miss9 would happy dance all night long if I dished her up a plate of these 🙂

    Reply
    • Nagi | RecipeTin says

      August 28, 2015 at 7:19 am

      Then YOU can do the happy dance with her! 🙂

      Reply
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