Best Sweet Sausage French Toast Casserole With Caramelized Bananas Recipes

CARAMEL OVERNIGHT FRENCH TOAST CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Spray a 9x13-inch casserole dish with cooking spray; set aside.
• To a medium bowl, add the melted butter, brown sugar, and stir to combine. Mixture will have the consistency of wet sand. Scatter this mixture in the bottom of the prepared pan. You will not have complete coverage; set pan aside.
• To a large bowl, add the eggs, and lightly beat to break the yolks and combine.
• Add the milk, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and whisk to combine.
• Add the bread to the bowl and toss well, but lightly, with a spatula to evenly coat the bread in the egg-milk mixture.
• Turn bread out into the prepared pan, cover pan, and place it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour, or up to 12 hours overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350F and remove pan from the fridge while oven is preheating. Bake for about 25 to 30 minutes or until the caramel sauce underneath is lightly bubbling and the top of the bread is slightly crusted over and lightly browned.
• Immediately after you take the casserole dish out of the oven, place a very large serving platter over the casserole dish and invert it so the casserole 'plops' out onto the serving platter. Use caution since the casserole dish is hot and heavy.
• Using a spatula, scrape any caramel sauce from the baking dish onto the French toast casserole.
• Optionally, if desired, lightly drizzle extra caramel or salted caramel sauce over the top, and/or lightly drizzle maple syrup, and serve immediately.
• Recipe is best warm and fresh.

FRENCH TOAST-SAUSAGE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• In 10-inch nonstick skillet, cook sausage over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until no longer pink; drain.
• Spray 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. In baking dish, arrange 4 of the bread slices, cutting as needed to fit dish. Spoon sausage over bread. Top with remaining 4 bread slices.
• In large bowl, beat eggs, half-and-half, milk, granulated sugar, cinnamon, salt and vanilla with whisk until well blended. Pour evenly over bread. Cover; refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Uncover baking dish. Bake 40 minutes or until golden brown and set. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve with syrup.

SWEET SAUSAGE FRENCH TOAST CASSEROLE WITH CARAMELIZED BANANAS

Steps:

• Grease 8x8 square baking dish.
• Fit 4 bread slices into the bottom of the pan.
• Crumble sausage over the bread in the pan.
• Top with remaining 4 slices bread.
• Beat eggs together then add the milk, cinnamon and ginger.
• Pour over the bread in the pan, covering completely.
• Cover tightly and refrigerate at least 8 hours or up to 24 hours.
• Remove from refrigerator 1 hour before baking.
• Bake at 350°F for 60 minutes or just until the middle is set.
• After casserole has baked for 35 minutes, start making the banana sauce.
• Melt stick of butter over medium heat in a skillet.
• Stir in the brown sugar and heat until bubbly, stirring so as not to stick or burn.
• Reduce heat to low and slice bananas about 1/4 inch thick into the skillet.
• Continue to cook and stir occasionally until bananas are reducing in size and are becoming caramelized.
• Keep sauce warm.
• Remove casserole from oven and let set for 5 minutes.
• Cut into squares and top with warm banana sauce ladled over the top.

CARAMELIZED BANANAS

Steps:

• Peel bananas and cut lengthwise in half.
• Sprinkle sugar over bananas so they're lightly coated.
• Place in oven and broil until the sugar caramelizes.
• Meanwhile in saucepan, combine sugar and a little bit of water just enough to dissolve sugar and place on stove.
• Cook mixture on high heat while constantly stirring until it becomes a light syrup.
• Add the raisins just before taking it off the stove.
• Immediately after the bananas come out of the oven, top with raisin syrup mixture and serve.