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breakfast popovers

Recipe by
Susan Bartley
Beaverton, OR

I put this together at the request of a friend. The nice thing about this recipe is much of it can be done the night before. Also it's fun to let everyone customize their popover to suit their liking, than just 15 minutes in the oven and breakfast is served!

yield serving(s)
prep time 1 Hr 30 Min
cook time 15 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For breakfast popovers

  • 12 oz
    bacon, cooked and crumbled
  • 1 pkg
    ground breakfast sausage like jimmy dean
  • 1/2 c
    sauted chopped onion red or yellow will do
  • 1/2 c
    chopped and sauted green onion
  • 12 lg
    eggs for scrambling
  • 2-3 c
    sausage gravy your fav or my recipe below
  • 2-3 c
    of assorted grated cheeses of your choice like chedder or jack
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 pkg
    puff pastry sheets, thawed
  • 2 c
    prepaired hash browns make your own or use frozen
  • SAUSAGE GRAVY
  • 1/2 c
    breakfast sausage
  • sausage drippings
  • 6 Tbsp
    fresh butter, real butter works best
  • 1/2 c
    flour you may need more
  • salt and pepper, the pepper is optional
  • 3 c
    more or less of whole milk

How To Make breakfast popovers

  • 1
    This can be done the night before. Cook and crumble sausage, cook and than crumble bacon. Lightly sauté green peppers, and onions in small amount of olive or canola oil. Store covered in the fridge till morning. I pull the puff pastry from the freezer and put in the fridge overnight.
  • 2
    In the morning take items stored in fridge out and set aside. Scramble eggs in butter or oil, but you want them to be scrambled soft so they don't dry out in the oven. Lightly sauté the hash browns in small amount of canola oil.
  • 3
    Make gravy. Using sausage drippings and butter, heat till they are sizzling. Add flour and cook for 7 minutes, this will cook the flour giving you a smooth gravy. Slowly add milk, stirring constantly till it reaches your desired thickness. You want this gravy to be on the thicker side.
  • 4
    Prepare cheeses and anything else you want to add to your popovers. Take puff pastry out of fridge and open each sheet. On a lightly floured surface roll out puff pastry till it's a 12"x12" sheet. Now cut each sheet into 6"x6" squares.
  • 5
    Preheat oven to 400 and put parchment paper on baking sheet. Set out all the fillings, so your family and guest can select the fillings they want in their popover. On a plate place one square of puff pastry and add the fillings you want on yours just on one half of the pastry. Now tap edge of pastry with a small amount of milk and seal the edges and lightly press edges with a fork to seal.
  • 6
    Now transfer each onto your baking sheet. You can write names on the parchment so not to mix them up. Bake at 400 for 15 minutes or till golden brown. Now garnish as desired, you can even pour warm gravy over it if you like. Now just enjoy!
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