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Breakfast Grilled Cheese (With Sausage, Eggs, and Colby-Jack)

Breakfast Grilled Cheese (With Sausage, Eggs, and Colby-Jack)

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.

Ingredients

Scale
  • 1/2 pound ground breakfast sausage

  • 6 large eggs, beaten

  • 8 slices Colby-Jack cheese

  • 4 tablespoons soft butter, divided

  • 8 slices sourdough bread

Instructions

  • 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.

Notes

  • 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