Ham & Cheese Breakfast Casserole Amongst Spinach

I'm thus glad a friend of mine introduced me to this delicious casserole only inwards fourth dimension for Easter.  Because tasty Ham & Cheese Breakfast Casserole amongst Spinach is only perfect for that leftover Easter {or Christmas} ham!
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We all accept a friend or 2 who are amazing cooks, right? ... That mortal who, when they say yous nigh a delicious dish they've cooked, yous only know  it's going to hold upward good.  No questions asked.  You get together upward every i of their recipes yous tin larn your hands on, collecting them too hoarding them similar sacred treasures.

Well permit me say ya, this Ham & Cheese Breakfast Casserole amongst Spinach is i of those sacred treasure recipes from i of my  gather-up-her-recipes-amazingly-fabulous-cook friends.  When this friend tells me nigh a dish, there's no uncertainty I'm going to inquire for her recipe.  And there's no uncertainty I'm going to dear it when I brand it.

But when my friend told me nigh this Ham & Cheese Breakfast Casserole, I volition admit, i element gave me interruption ...

Yes ... for only a flash of a moment, I questioned my friend's dish.

Because this breakfast casserole contains something I had never used inwards a breakfast casserole earlier ... or whatsoever casserole, for that affair ...

Croutons.

Mmmm hmmmm, Ham & Cheese Breakfast Casserole starts out amongst a layer of Italian-seasoned croutons.  Scattered inwards the bottom of the baking pan, too and thus layered amongst ham, spinach, cheeses, too eggs.

The croutons hit a actually tender, flavorful layer on the bottom of the casserole.  And yous know what?

It's really  good!

Of course of pedagogy it is.  Because it's a recipe tried-and-tested past times i of my amazing no-questions-asked hit friends.  That I should accept never questioned ... non fifty-fifty for that tiny flash of a moment.

And now, only similar our friendship, this recipe is i of those recipes inwards my collection that I tally onto similar a sacred treasure.

Ham & Cheese Breakfast Casserole amongst Spinach

Source:  My friend Jennie

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 1 (5 oz.) package Italian seasoned croutons
• 2 c. coarsely chopped ham
• 1 (10 oz.) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed too good drained
• 2 c. (8 oz. package) shredded Italian-blend cheese
• 1 c. (4 oz.) shredded abrupt cheddar cheese
• 10 eggs
• 1 1/2 c. half & half
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. black pepper
• 1/2 tsp. paprika

Directions

1. Lightly spray a 9x13" baking dish amongst non-stick cooking spray. Layer ingredients inwards baking dish inwards this order: croutons, chopped ham, spinach, too cheeses.
2. In a mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, one-half & half, salt, pepper, too paprika. Gently pour egg mixture on piece of employment past times of cheeses, distributing evenly over the entire baking dish.
3. Bake at 350 degrees until ready too lightly browned, 35 to forty minutes. Serve immediately.

Enjoy!

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