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Sausage Egg & Cheese American Pancake Stack

Sausage, Egg And Cheese Pancake Stack

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This is a dirty but delicious breakfast/brunch recipe – absolutely nothing refined about it. That makes it another great option for a hangover breakfast, like my best ever breakfast muffin recipe. In fact, the two recipes are pretty similar but this swaps the muffin for American pancakes, and doubles up on patty count. It’s cheesy, salty, carby, and super tasty owing to seasoning of that sausage patty. I like to use American cheese for this as, for some reason, I think it’s delicious but feel free to swap it for something a little higher quality. I just love the creamy texture of American cheese. The beauty of this recipe is you can pretty much add whatever you’d normally have in a breakfast sandwich or whatever you’ve got in your fridge – bacon, hash browns, avocado – the list is endless! Let me know in the comments what combos you try. I’m always looking for new variations!

Sausage, Egg And Cheese Pancake Stack

Serves 2 | 40 mins prep + cooking

Ingredients

2/3 batch BBC Good Food American pancake recipe (or equivalent amount of your fave recipe)

3x breakfast patty ingredients from my breakfast muffin recipe

4 slices American cheese (or cheese of your choice)

2 eggs

Maple syrup to serve

Method:

  1. Make the pancake batter. Heat a small amount of butter and oil in a pan over medium heat – you want just enough to cover the bottom of the pan but very little excess.
  2. Once hot, add a large spoonful of your pancake mix to the pan aiming for ~10cm diameter. Cook on one side until bubbles start to form in the mix and it’s started to set on top, it should also be golden brown on the bottom. The cooking time is really dependent on your pan and hob. Flip and cook on the other side until golden brown. Cover in foil & keep in the over at a low temperature to keep warm. Repeat with the remaining batter, re-oiling the pan as needed.
  3. Next, combine all the sausage patty ingredients in a bowl and mix until combined. Form the mix into 4 thin patties, slightly larger in diameter than the pancakes as this will shrink when cooked.
  4. Coat the bottom of a skillet or frying pan with vegetable oil and heat over high heat. Once hot, place the patty into the pan and cook for 1-2 mins until the bottom is browned & caramelised – check after 1 min as this will burn quickly if left unattended. Flip the patty and leave for 30-60seconds, then add the cheese on top. Put a lid or plate over the frying pan and leave for another 30-60 seconds until cooked through (no pink left) and the cheese is melty. Cooking time will depend on the patty thickness, the pan and hob. Set aside & cover with foil.
  5. Crack the eggs into the sausage pan still over high heat and cook to your liking. I like mine over easy but still runny.
  6. To serve, place 1 pancake on a plate followed by a sausage patty, the egg, another pancake, another sausage patty and then a final pancake on top. Drizzle with maple syrup and enjoy!

My Best Ever Breakfast Muffins: Sausage, Bacon, Egg & Cheese Muffins

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This is the ultimate hangover breakfast. Obviously there are some hangovers where a McDonalds muffin is the only answer, but for those ones where you feel able to get in the kitchen – this is the cure. To be honest this is amazing even if you’re not hungover. Let’s rephrase that first sentence to the ultimate breakfast – big claim but I can back it up. We have a really flavoursome, seasoned sausage patty fried until caramelised with plastic cheese, crispy bacon, fried egg, ketchup (or your sauce of choice, but clearly ketchup is the right one) inside a toasty English muffin. You cannot go wrong! Lots of this muffin is open to editing:

  • Cheese: I love the flavour & melty texture of plastic cheese in a burger or breakfast muffin, bt if you’re not on board switch it for something classier
  • Bacon: smoked, unsmoked, streaky, back – the world’s your oyster
  • Egg: Fry it however you list – sunny side up, over easy (I don’t know what these words mean), runny yolk, hard yolk. I like my eggs flipped with a mostly hard yolk, which may get some hate but eating a sandwich with a runny yolk is just impractical
  • Sauce: Ketchup, brown same, Siracha etc. etc.

Please let me know any different variations you try and how they are!

Sausage, Bacon, Egg & Cheese Breakfast Muffins

Serves 1 | 20 mins cook & prep

Ingredients

Breakfast Sausage Patty:

2 pork sausages (or ~115g sausage meat)

1 clove garlic, minced

2 sage leaves, finely diced (or switch for 1tsp dried sage)

1/2 tsp dried thyme

1/4 tsp soft brown sugar

Large pinch nutmeg

Chilli flakes to taste

Salt &. pepper

Muffins:

2 rashers bacon (streaky or not, smoked or unsmoked – personal preference)

1 egg

1 slice American cheese

English muffin

Ketchup (or sauce of your choice)

Method

  1. Remove the sausages from their casing (skip this if using sausage meat) and combine all the sausage ingredients. Taste for seasoning by frying up a small portion of the meat and adjusting as needed
  2. Cook your bacon – I prefer to do this under a high grill until quite crispy.
  3. Meanwhile, split and toast the english muffin, put this on a plate and spread your choice of sauce on both sides. Set aside ready to assemble.
  4. In a frying pan or skillet heat up enough oil to coat the bottom on medium high heat. While this is heating up, using your hands roll the sausage meat into a ball and press into a thin, even patty in your hands. The patty should be about 1cm thick. It’ll end up being much bigger than the muffin, this is okay as it will shrink when cooked.
  5. Place the patty into the pan and cook for 1-2 mins until the bottom is browned & caramelised. Flip the patty and leave for 30-60seconds, then add the cheese on top. Put a lid or plate over the frying pan and leave for another 30-60 seconds until cooked through (no pink left) and the cheese is melty. Cooking time will depend on the patty thickness, the pan and hob. Place this on the bottom half of the muffin.
  6. If needed, add more oil to the frying pan and crack in an egg. Cook this to your liking (I like mine flipped with the yolk mostly cooked through). Once cooked, add the egg on top of the sausage.
  7. Add the bacon on top, then the other half of the muffin and enjoy!