Slow-Cooker Brunch Casserole

Name: Slow-Cooker Brunch Casserole
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 12 ounces, bulk breakfast sausage; 2 , onions, chopped fine; 2 , red bell peppers, stemmed, seeded, and chopped; 1 tablespoon, minced canned chipotle chile in adobo sauce, plus 1 teaspoon adobo sauce; 2 , garlic cloves, minced; 1 teaspoon, ground cumin; 14 ounces, baguette, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (12 cups); 12 ounces, pepper Jack cheese, shredded (3 cups); 3 cups, half-and-half; 12 , large eggs; , Salt and pepper; 4 , scallions, sliced thin

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2015

You need bold ingredients to make a slow-cooker brunch casserole that actually tastes like something more than mush.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME2½ to 4 hours on low, plus 30 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a kicked-up brunch casserole we cook breakfast sausage with plenty of onions and bell peppers and flavor the mixture with smoky minced chipotle chiles with spicy adobo sauce. To distribute the flavor evenly throughout the casserole, we ...

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