Sausage, Kale and Squash Strata

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In this layered breadstuff pudding, vegetal kale blends with saccharine butternut squash and herby chicken-apple sausage for an easy-to-the-table crockery made for a crowd. Cream food successful the custard keeps it from separating.

To marque this strata adjacent simpler to assemble, we’re utilizing precut squash and frozen kale. When the breadstuff is stale, that’s adjacent better. Substitutions are a breeze: Swap successful immoderate sausage (or omit it altogether for a vegetarian entree) oregon usage different enriched breadstuff specified arsenic challah, murphy breadstuff oregon torn pieces of croissants.

You’ll request a 3-quart ovenproof casserole dish, specified arsenic a 9-by-13-inch pan.

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Strata improves erstwhile determination is plentifulness of clip for the breadstuff to soak up the custard. Make this up to 12 hours up of baking. The strata volition look from the oven puffed and gorgeous, past deflate. It tin beryllium served piping blistery oregon astatine country temperature.

From Bring It! columnist Cathy Barrow.

Ingredients

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Servings: 12

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 lb chicken-apple sausage links (uncooked)
2 cups peeled butternut squash, cubed oregon sliced (about 8 ounces; spot headnote)
2 cups frozen kale, defrosted and squeezed adust (about 4 ounces; spot headnote)
3/4 cupful chopped level leafage parsley
1/2 spoon adust (rubbed) sage
3/4 spoon kosher salt
1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
6 ample eggs, positive 3 ample ovum yolks
4 tablespoons pick cheese, astatine country temperature
1 cupful full milk
1 cupful dense cream
1 tablespoonful honey
1 spoon Dijon mustard
1/4 cupful chopped chives
1 spoon unsalted butter
One 12-to-14-ounce brioche loaf, thickly sliced (see headnote)
About 6 ounces Gruyere cheese, grated (1 1/2 cups)
Hot sauce, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
410
Fat
27 g
Saturated Fat
13 g
Carbohydrates
25 g
Sodium
590 mg
Cholesterol
240 mg
Protein
19 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
12 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Bring It! columnist Cathy Barrow.

Tested by Miriam Albert.

Published December 5, 2018

Updated March 16, 2026