St. Patrick's Day Breakfast Casserole
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Recipe type: Breakfast
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Serves: 4+
 
Color your breakfast casserole green with spinach juice for a festive St. Paddy's Day breakfast.
Ingredients
  • 5 eggs
  • ¼ cup flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup cottage cheese
  • ½ lb shredded cheese (Cheddar, Monterey Jack, etc.)
  • 1 Tbsp butter, melted
  • ½ cup ham, sausage or green chiles, optional
Instructions
  1. Blend all of the ingredients together.
  2. Add ham, sausage or green chiles if desired. Drain the meat before adding it to the egg mixture so that the casserole does not become watery and runny.
  3. Add 2+ Tbsp of spinach juice until the egg mixture reaches a shade of green that you like.
  4. Pour the egg mixture into a greased 8x8-inch pan or into greased heart molds.
  5. Bake it at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until it is golden brown and bubbly.
  6. A knife inserted in the center should come out clean.
  7. If you use smaller heart pans, start checking the breakfast casserole around 20 minutes because it will not take as long to cook.
  8. Let the breakfast casserole cool for 5-10 minutes.
  9. Then invert the heart shapes onto your serving plates.
  10. If you baked it in a pan, use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut out pieces of breakfast casserole.
  11. Arrange the hearts into three-leafed clovers using a spinach stem as the shamrock stem.
  12. You can also make four-leaf clovers for good luck.
Recipe by Itsy Bitsy Foodies at http://itsybitsyfoodies.com/st-patricks-day-breakfast-casserol/