Start your morning with the ultimate comfort-food breakfast: a crispy, buttery Breakfast Grilled Cheese stuffed with scrambled eggs, savory breakfast sausage, and melty Colby-Jack cheese. It’s warm, filling, and perfect for busy mornings, weekend brunch, or even breakfast-for-dinner.
1/2 pound ground breakfast sausage
6 large eggs, beaten
8 slices Colby-Jack cheese
4 tablespoons soft butter, divided
8 slices sourdough bread
Cook the sausage
In a large non-stick skillet, cook and crumble the breakfast sausage over medium-high heat until fully browned and no longer pink.
Transfer sausage to a paper towel-lined bowl to drain. Wipe out the skillet.
Scramble the eggs
Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in the same skillet over medium-high heat.
Pour in the beaten eggs. Let them set slightly, then gently stir until scrambled and almost fully cooked (still soft). Remove from heat.
Combine sausage and eggs
Remove the paper towel from under the sausage (leave sausage in the bowl). Add scrambled eggs and gently stir to combine.
Assemble the sandwiches
Wipe skillet clean and heat over medium.
Butter one side of each bread slice.
Place one slice of bread in the skillet, butter side down.
Layer the filling
Add:
1 slice of Colby-Jack cheese
About 1/2 cup sausage-egg mixture
1 more slice of Colby-Jack cheese
Top with another slice of bread, butter side up.
Cook until golden
Cook 3–4 minutes, until golden brown on the bottom.
Carefully flip and cook another 3–4 minutes, until golden and cheese is melted.
Serve
Remove to a cutting board and slice in half if desired. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Serve immediately.
Use medium heat so the bread toasts evenly without burning before the cheese melts.
For extra melty cheese, cover the skillet for 30–60 seconds after flipping.
If the filling is cold, keep the egg-sausage mixture warm before assembling to help melt the cheese.
Want it crispier? Use a thin layer of butter and toast slow