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Then when you are ready to bake them, pull them out of the freezer and place them directly in the preheated oven.
Start by adding the uncooked ground sausage and softened cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment or in a large mixing bowl. Once the mixture is well incorporated use a medium or large cookie scoop and place the balls on the prepared baking sheet.They are just as good at room temperature, so if you need to carry these somewhere, there is no worry about keeping them warm. On Christmas morning I was making our traditional breakfast casserole and I had a thought…” why don’t I cook some of these in a muffin pan for egg bites”? Place patties on a wire rack or lined baking tray and bake for 24-26 minutes, flipping after 12 minutes. This is a vegetarian version of hash brown bites but can be customized as per your taste/preference with the addition of sausage. Cook desired meat (turkey sausage, bacon, ham) and disperse evenly into cups on top of the hash browns.
Another advantage of using a cookie scoop is that you get a consistent size of each sausage hash brown bite. So we’ve all seen the very popular spicy tuna crispy rice bites from NOBU but have you seen it made with hashbrowns? There has also been a trend on TikTok of people using hashbrowns in replacement of bread to make avocado toast and that’s where the idea came to use it instead of rice to make this NOBU inspired recipe. Once all the ingredients have been mixed and are well incorporated, it is time to make them into balls.
I don’t recommend putting too many ingredients as the muffin cups need space to incorporate the egg mixture.