Sausage Egg and Cheese Biscuit Sandwich

Get your morning off to a great start with homemade Sausage Egg and Cheese Biscuit sandwiches that are better than anything you’ll get from a drive-thru. Using a food processor to whip up quick biscuits, you'll have a delicious breakfast sandwich in no time. 

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These Sausage Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwiches are incredibly simple to make, especially when using a food processor for the biscuits. The dough comes together in just minutes, and with just a few quick steps, you’ll have a freshly baked buttermilk biscuit ready for assembling. Add delicious sausage, fluffy eggs, and melty cheese for the perfect homemade breakfast sandwich.

A sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit breakfast sandwich is one of my favorite breakfast recipes! They are so much better than the classic Mcdonald's drive-thru version because they're made with fresh ingredients and I use my quick and easy food processor biscuits! They're also great for meal prep. You can make a bunch ahead of time and keep them in the freezer. When you’re hungry, just heat one up in the microwave or oven and you’re ready to go!

Ingredients & Substitutions

Basically I have all the standard ingredients for making my buttermilk biscuits, plus some breakfast sausage and cheese, but let's dig into everything and see where you can adjust if needed to get a perfect savory biscuit breakfast sandwich.

• All-purpose flour - Any store brand all-purpose flour will do the trick here. If you have leftover self-rising flour from making my easy bagels or my quick English muffins, or my two ingredient biscuits, you can use that and just leave the baking powder and salt out of the recipe, as they are included in the self-rising flour.
• Breakfast sausage - I almost always use my homemade ground pork breakfast sausage, because I know all the ingredients, but yeah, sometimes I use store-bought bulk savory sausage, and sometimes I even use a frozen breakfast sausage patty. No shame in my game. I just want a biscuit sandwich.
• American cheese - You can use any cheese you prefer in your breakfast sandwich. Although I do like cheddar cheese on occasion, I really, really like American cheese. It melts beautifully and it adds just the right salty flavor without trying to steal the show.
• Biscuits - Listen, they don't call me the Biscuit Queen of New Jersey for nothing. My biscuit recipes are all easy and delicious, but you can use refrigerated biscuits if you really want to save time. I would recommend the large or "Grands" size.
• Eggs - I do a version of my easy fried eggs, cooked in a ring mold to match the biscuit size. You can also make my fluffy scrambled eggs and scop them onto the sandwich, or cook the egg mixture in a single layer in the pan and slice and place a folded egg on each sandwich. I like whole eggs, but you can do egg whites only if you like.

See recipe card below for exact quantities and the full recipe.

Variations

I am convinced that this sausage egg and cheese biscuit is breakfast sandwich perfection, but here are some fun ways to play with your sandwich:

• Pared down - I just love a sausage biscuit. If I had a dollar for every time I slid a piece of sausage between the layers of a flaky biscuit, I would be a thousandaire 💰
• Extra cheese please - Try making this biscuit sandwich with my cheddar biscuits or go extra meaty with a biscuit sandwich made with my ham and cheese biscuits.
• Bacon please - Make my oven bacon and make my second favorite McDonald's breakfast sandwich, the bacon egg and cheese!
• Just the egg - My Dad likes when I make him an egg biscuit sandwich. Go figure.
• Upscale - I love the fried egg, but a slice of my sheet pan frittata or my country omelette would also be amazing!

Equipment: Cooking rings

To make the biscuit and the egg the same size, I use a 3 ½ inch ring cutter, but you can also use english muffins rings or a large round cookie cutter or biscuit cutter.

I use a slightly larger size ring (4 inches) to make my sausage patties. If I used the same size ring as the eggs and biscuits, the sausage patties would be smaller because they shrink as they cook. Maybe it's just me, but I like everything the same size so all my bites have all the same bits. Bonus: the biscuit sandwiches are cuter and cuter is more delicious. That's simple science.

Instructions

Honestly this is such a simple recipe. The biscuit dough is made completely in a food processor, although I tell you how to do it by hand. Unlike my usual technique, I have you knead the dough a few times. I do this so that the biscuits will have a little bit of structure and don't fall apart when you bite into the sandwich, which we call all agree is the worst!

If you are using store bought sausage patties and biscuits, just skip down to Step 9. Otherwise, enjoy my helpful pictures, gather your ingredients, and make yourself some delicious breakfast sandwiches.

Make sausage patties

Step 1: Divide sausage into 6 equal pieces and roll into balls. Using a ring cutter, or just estimating, press out to 4 inch patties.

Step 2: Place the patties on a parchment paper lined sheet pan and place in the freezer while you make your biscuits.

Make biscuits

Step 3: Preheat oven to 450°F. Place dry biscuit ingredients and cold butter cubes into the bowl of your food processor and pulse the ingredients for three 1 second pulses. 

(Alternatively you can use a pastry blender or do a finger snapping motion with your hands to rub the flour and butter together.)

Step 4: Turn the food processor on while slowly pouring your buttermilk in through the opening on the top. 

(Alternative add buttermilk to your flour/butter mixture in the bowl and mix to a shaggy dough)

Step 5: Stop the food processor as soon as the dough forms a ball that gathers mostly on one side.

Step 6: On lightly floured surface, fold the dough over onto itself 5 or 6 times, until you have a smooth dough.

Step 7: Roll out dough to about ½-inch thickness. Use a ring mold or biscuit cutter to cut out 3 to 3 ½ inch biscuits (wash and dry the ring mold when done. You will use it to cook your eggs).

Step 8: Brush with an egg wash or more buttermilk and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the biscuits are golden brown and well risen. You may get up to 8 to 10 biscuits.

Let cool for about 5 minutes while you cook your sausage and your eggs.

Make biscuit sandwiches

Step 9: Slice your biscuits open and place a piece of cheese on the warm bottom half of each future sandwich (this gives it a head start on melting).

Step 10: In a large skillet (I prefer nonstick) over medium heat, cook your sausage patties until done, about 3 minutes per side. Place a sizzling hot pork sausage patty onto each sandwich. Wipe out the pan.

Step 11: In the same pan, over medium heat, spray the ring with cooking spray, place it into the pan, add a small nub of butter, and crack an egg into the center. Poke the yolk with a skewer or toothpick. 

Cover the pan and cook for 1 to 2 minutes, or until whites are mostly set. Remove the ring and flip. Cook another 2 minutes, or until the yolk is mostly cooked.

Step 12: Add an egg to each sandwich and replace the top halves of the biscuits.

Enjoy your homemade sausage egg and cheese biscuit sandwich. Or sandwiches. If you lose track of time and you seem to be missing a sandwich, or two, I feel you.

Expert tip: eggs

Everyone has their breakfast sandwich quirks, and it's usually regarding how to cook the egg. The sandwich above is made with an over-hard egg, which is how my husband usually requests them because he doesn't like to get his hands messy with a runny yolk. 

I like an over-medium egg patty, with a yolk that is still a bit jammy, making a little sauce for my sammy (ooh that rhymes). If you want yours completely runny, don't poke the yolk (oops I did it again 🤭) with a skewer and cook it for a just a few seconds after you flip it over.

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