This post may contain affiliate links. Please see disclosure policy here.
Breakfast Pizza is all of your favorite breakfast ingredients in one dish and our family’s favorite breakfast dish ever!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe!
Family Favorite. This recipe for breakfast pizza has been a Wilkes family favorite for decades! It contains everyone’s favorite breakfast foods all in one.
Easy to put together. You use store bought crescent roll dough for the crust, so there is no messing around with yeast or homemade dough.
Ingredients Needed for Breakfast Pizza
- Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage. This is a ground sausage. I usually use the Regular flavor but you could also use the Maple or the Hot.
- Crescent Rolls. The kind that comes in the round can.
- Hash brown potatoes. We usually use the diced frozen ones. Let them thaw in the fridge before using.
- Cheddar cheese. You can also use a Mexican blend of cheese if you prefer.
- Eggs
- Milk. Use what you have on hand.
- Salt and pepper
- Parmesan cheese. I use Kraft, the kind that comes in a green can!
How to Make Breakfast Pizza
- Cook sausage until well browned, drain fat. Break it up as you cook it so it is like ground sausage.
- Press crescent roll dough into a 12 x 17″ cookie sheet or an ungreased 12 inch pizza pan with points toward the center. Press over bottom and up sides to form a crust; seal perforations (important)
- Spoon sausage over the crust.
- Sprinkle breakfast pizza with potatoes and top with cheddar cheese. (You can make it to this point the night ahead of time, cover with plastic and refrigerate)
- If serving now, in a bowl, beat together eggs, milk, salt and pepper.
- Pour egg mixture over crust in the middle – it will seep out to the edges on its own. If you pour it near the edges it may overflow.
- Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese over all.
- Bake at 375 degrees F until golden brown and cheese is melted.
Tips from Leigh Anne
- This is a great prep ahead breakfast idea. Brown your sausage the night before, mix up your egg mixture and make sure all the other ingredients are ready. Just assemble and bake in the morning.
- If you are using a cookie sheet that is smaller than 12 x 17″, such as 9 x 12″ you will need only one tube of crescent rolls, 1/2 package of sausage and 3 eggs, 1/4 tsp salt, sprinkle of pepper. I keep the rest of the ingredients the same.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can I use instead of crescent rolls?
I have only ever made this with refrigerated crescent roll dough but you could use a puff pastry dough.
Can I use regular pizza dough?
The crescent rolls gives it a nice flaky crust but if you prefer, you can use a regular pizza dough for a more classic pizza texture.
Can I make breakfast pizza ahead of time?
You can assemble everything up until you pour on the egg mixture. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve and remoe from fridge and pour egg mixture over the top and bake. You can premix the egg mixture the day before and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to pour over and bake.
Check out more delicious recipes:
Be sure and follow me over on You Tube for weekly cooking demos.
Breakfast Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 16 oz. Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage The kind that comes in a roll.
- 2 8 oz. Crescent Rolls. 8 refrigerated crescent rolls that come in the tube
- 1 cup hash brown potatoes I use frozen ones and let them thaw in the fridge.
- 1 cup cheddar cheese shredded
- 5 eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. pepper
- 2 Tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese I use Kraft, the kind that comes in a green can!
Instructions
- Cook sausage until well browned, drain fat. Break it up as you cook it so it is like ground sausage.
- Press crescent roll dough into a 12" x 17" cookie sheet or an ungreased 12 inch round pizza pan with points toward the center. Press over bottom and up sides to form a crust; seal perforations (important) Spoon sausage over the crust.
- Sprinkle with potatoes and top with cheddar cheese. (You can make it to this point the night ahead of time, cover with plastic and refrigerate)
- In a bowl beat together eggs, milk, salt and pepper.
- Pour over crust in the middle – it will seep out to the edges on its own. If you pour it near the edges it may overflow.
- Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese over all.
- Bake at 375 oven for 25-30 minutes.
Tips & Notes:
Nutrition Facts:
CJT says
I always make this for Christmas morning, along with cinnamon rolls and cut up fresh fruit. My recipe has diced onion and red bell pepper that I cook when I’m cooking the sausage. I drain the sausage mixture on a paper towel, put in sandwich bag, and keep in fridge overnight. Makes it really easy to throw together Christmas morning. I have also used Italian 5 cheese instead of cheddar cheese. I’ve always made on a pizza pan. May try the cookie sheet next time.