Sausage and Goat Cheese Strata

Sausage and Goat Cheese Strata from
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Serves 6

Ingredients

• Cooking spray
• 8 slices of fresh sourdough bread, diced into ½ in pices
• 2 cooked chicken sausage, diced
• 1 caramelized onion
• 1 cup cooked asparagus, diced
• 4 oz mozzerlla cheese, grated
• 4 oz crumbled goat cheese
• 6 eggs
• 1 ½ cups buttermilk (regular milk can be substituted)
• 1 TBSP honey mustard
• salt
• 2 TBSP turkey bacon crumbles, cooked
• 2 TBSP Parmesan cheese

Directions

1. Spray the baking dish. Layer in the following order: ½ the bread, caramelized onion, asparagus, mozzarella cheese, sausage, goat cheese, ½ the bread. 
2. Whisk the eggs, buttermilkmilk, salt and mustard in a small mixing bowl. Pour over the baking dish making sure to cover the top pieces of bread. Press bread down and tightly cover. Refrigerate for at least 8 hours or up to 24 hours.
3. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Remove from refrigerator and let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.  Sprinkle with bacon crumbles and Parmesan cheese.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.

Note: I used asparagus and caramelized onions as my veggies because that I was what I had on hand left over form the previous night.  Any cooked veggies could be used.  A couple suggestions are broccoli, peppers, mushrooms or even apples for a sweeter spin on this recipe.