Breakfast Casserole? Minimum # of eggs?

[emma'smom]

We're doing "low-carb" and I want to make a breakfast casserole. Sounds easy, right? However, I don't really like eggs! I can tolerate a very minimal amount of egg that binds everything together--as long as I can't taste it! So, my question of the day:

What is the minimum number of eggs that I can get away with to make a low-carb breakfast casserole? If I mix in cottage cheese will that help?

 

[akcire]

Most breakfast casserole's have a ton of bread, usually white bread, which is decidedly not low-carb. The only other must have ingredients are cheese, eggs, and sometimes a little bacon.

You would probably be much better off to do a vegetable egg white quiche if your goal is a low carb hot breakfast food.

 

[Angelhalo]

I was thinking the same thing as the pp....DH and I are doing low carb and I am having a hard time imagining a low carb breakfast casserole. If there are no potatoes and no bread, then what's in it? Eggs and meat? I'm curious.

OP I don't think cottage cheese will bind anything, which is what the eggs do, so I'm not sure.

 

[laurie31]

I have an awesome recipe for a breakfast casserole that doesn't taste "eggy" (got it right here on the DIS 2 or 3 years ago! It's our Christmas breakfast now ) but the crust is crescent rolls, so not low carb!

Maybe you could make it without the crust.

It's 1 pound of ground sausage, cooked
sprinkle 2 cups grated mozzerella cheese over the sausage
then mix 4 eggs and 1 cup milk and pour over the sausage and cheese.

(and normally you would have first pressed two cans of crescent rolls into a greased 13x9 dish before adding the sausage)

I have no idea how it would come out without the bread, but you could try it. If you used turkey sausage (which I have done that, in fact I made it with vegatarian sausage substitute once!), skim milk, and low fat cheese, it wouldn't be THAT bad, right?

 

[kaytieeldr]

I agree, it seems difficult to make a breakfast casserole without eggs. Maybe you could mask the taste of the eggs with other strong flavors - bacon, sharp cheddar, onions, garlic...

I did find one low-carb recipe http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/breakfast1/r/baconeggcasserl.htm - but it uses eggs

 

[emma'smom]

Yes...it would be impossible to make without eggs at all. There are lots of no-bread recipes out there for breakfast casseroles (sausage, red peppers, zucchini, and cheese are the fillers in one that looks good). However, it does require eggs to bind it all together. I'm just trying to figure out how few eggs I could get away with. In other words, if it usually calls for 4 eggs and milk (see pp recipe). Could I get away with using just 2 eggs--thus making it less "egg-y"?

I guess that will be my week-end experiment! Worst thing that might happen is that it won't bind and I'll serve it up on a plate and call it a frittata (and feed it to DH).

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

Add extra milk to the casserole after you have it prepared. It will make the casserole light and fluffy, not eggy at all.