Easy Breakfast Muffins with a Hash Brown Crust

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Easy Breakfast Muffins with a Hash Brown Crust

Delicious egg and bacon breakfast muffins with a hash brown crust. Perfect make ahead breakfast or for a brunch!

Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 30 minutes Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 24


Ingredients

For the hash brown crust:
1 20ozbag Simply Potatoes shredded hash browns(or frozen, thawed and strained)
1egg
1/3cupshredded or Mexican blend cheese
1/2tspsalt
1/4tsppepper
1tspdried parsley
3clovesminced garlic
1/4tspsmoked paprika
1Tspolive oil

For the egg mixture:
12eggs
1/2cupmilk
1cupshredded Mexican blend(or your other favorite) cheese
12slicescrispy baconcut up into bite-size pieces
3/4tspsalt
1/2tsppepper
1 1/2tspdried parsley


Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Spray two 12 cup muffin tins with non-stick baking spray.

For the hash brown crust:

Mix entire bag of hash browns with egg, oil, cheese, salt, pepper, minced garlic, paprika, and parsley in large bowl until seasonings are well combined.

Split hash brown mixture evenly among the 24 baking cups then pat it down with the back of a cup or other round container that fits into the muffin tins.

Bake hash brown crust in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes or until it gets slightly browned and crispy.

For Egg Mixture:
While crust is cooking, mix eggs, milk, cheese, salt, pepper, parsley, and bacon in a large bowl.

Once hash brown crust is slightly browned, split the egg mixture evenly on top of the hash browns in the muffin tins, filling to about 3/4 full.

Bake in the oven for another 10-15 minutes or until eggs are fully cooked.

Remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes before removing from the muffin tins by sliding a silicone spatula around the outside of the cups.

Serve hot or at room temperature.