Breakfast Burritos
These breakfast burritos are perfect to make ahead. Enjoy them fresh for a weekend meal, or freeze them for a fast and convenient grab-and-go breakfast on busy weekdays.
While the recipe is easily customizable, this version includes a classic, hearty filling of bacon, eggs, sausage, peppers, and onions that is sure to satisfy. They freeze beautifully, but be sure to omit ingredients like avocado or sour cream before freezing.
What Is a Breakfast Burrito?
It is exactly what it sounds like: a burrito that is made with breakfast ingredients. At its simplest form, you will want to include scrambled eggs and cheese in a flour tortilla. Besides those three main ingredients, you can add more flavor with meats like bacon and/or sausage, vegetables like hash browns, onions, and bell peppers, salsa, and much more!
You can use any meat combination and any vegetable combination. Make it even completely with vegetable or load it up with just meats.
Key Ingredient and Substitutions
Tortillas – Flour tortillas work best for these burritos! Also, be sure to buy burrito sized tortillas for the best results. However, if you want mini burritos, taco sized tortillas work well.
Milk – This is optional, but I love adding milk to my scrambled eggs! I find that it makes them creamy, fluffy, and more decadent. You can use non-dairy milk or substitute with water.
Cheese – Any shredded cheese you like will work in these versatile breakfast burritos. Sharp cheddar will give you more flavor, while Colby-Jack will make is cheesy, smooth, and creamy.
Bacon – Use your favorite pork bacon or, you can use an alternative like turkey bacon.
Breakfast Sausage – for the best taste, make sure to use breakfast sausage in you breakfast burritos. You can get ground breakfast sausage or take apart the links and crumble it before cooking.
Veggies – bell peppers and onions are the best classic combination that will add freshness and sweetness to the burritos. You can use any of your favorite veggies, of course, or even omit the meat and increase the about and variety of vegetables. DO sauté the veggies first so you don’t add unnecessary liquids to the rolled burrito and it will taste much better.
How to Make Breakfast Burritos
Start off by preparing the hash browns. Preheat a large cooking pan over medium heat and add a little oil. Spread shredded hash browns in the pan and by not to overcrowd them too much. (Depending on the size of your pan, you may been to do it in two batches.)
Season potatoes with a little salt and pepper and sauté, stirring from time to time, until hash browns are golden brown. Take them out of the pan and set aside.
Next, cook the meat. If you’re making both bacon and sausage, cook the bacon first for a few minutes before adding the sausage to the same pan.
Remove the meats from the pan, then toss the veggies right in there! (If there is a lot of grease left from the meats, you can drain off half or most of it.) Cooking them in the same pan will give the onions and bell peppers tons of flavor. Once the onions and peppers are nice and soft, toss in the garlic and cook until fragrant.
Remove the veggies and it’s time to cook the eggs in the very same pan but add a little oil or spray oil first. Pour in the whisked egg mixture and start slowly and gently stirring with the spatula to scramble the eggs.
Add some of your favorite shredded cheese, stir to mix and take out of the pan once the cheese is melted.
Get all your filling ingredients together so you’re able to easily assemble the burritos. Assemble the burritos by dividing all of the ingredients evenly amongst the tortillas. Then, fold the tortilla first by folding the bottom towards the center and then the sides and then, roll them up tight!
FOR THE BEST FINISH: Finishing rolled burritos on the stove is the BEST not only because you will get a golden, crispy, caramelized tortilla on the outside but it will also bring all flavors together inside. To make them crispy, just place the rolled burritos in a large preheated cooking pan and cook on each side over medium heat. Cook until the tortilla is golden on all four sides. You will need to turn them a 1/4 of the way every couple of minutes.
How to Store and Freeze Breakfast Burritos
Storing: You can easily store cooked and wrapped breakfast burritos in the refrigerator, just make sure to wrap them air-tight first. Use saran wrap, beeswax wrap, or wax paper to wrap each burrito individually. Stack them in a food storage container with a lid and refrigerate for up to 4 days.
Freezing: Prepare the burritos as instructed and make sure they are cooled. Wrap each individual burrito in aluminum foil air-tight. Then, place the foil wrapped burritos into a large zip-top freezer bag and make sure to label. Freeze the burritos for up to 2 months.
How To Reheat Breakfast Burritos
There are two methods for reheating frozen or refrigerated breakfast burritos:
- In a Pan (Best Results): For a crispy tortilla, thaw the burrito overnight in the fridge. Sear it in a lightly oiled pan over medium heat, turning occasionally until golden brown and heated through.
- In the Microwave (Fastest Method): Remove all foil from a frozen burrito and wrap it in a damp paper towel. Microwave for 2-3 minutes, flipping halfway. Cut it open to ensure the center is hot; if not, microwave for another minute. Cooking times may vary.
What other filling options can I add to breakfast burritos?
Meats – you have options of bacon, breakfast sausage, ham, chicken, and turkey. This is a great breakfast dish to use up leftover meats.
Cheeses – cheddars will give you great flavor, especially sharp cheddar. You can also use shredded Mexican cheese mix, Colby-Jack, or Mozzarella.
Vegetables – think hardier veggies like onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, chili peppers, or corn.
Beans – use refried or black beans if you’d like.
Recipe FAQs
No. Unfortunately corn tortillas do not work in rolling burritos. They break and crack way too easy AND they don’t typically come in a burrito size.
You can try to find gluten free tortillas but they don’t usually come in a burrito size, so you will need to use less filling. Also, note that some gluten free tortillas can break easier than flour tortillas. Make sure to warm up the tortilla first so it’s easier to work with. To make them a little more stable, you can melt some shredded cheese over the tortilla in a pan and then roll it with the topping.
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Breakfast Burritos Recipe
Ingredients
- 20 oz shredded hash browns thawed
- 8 10-inch (burrito) flour tortillas
- 1 lb bacon diced
- 12 oz breakfast sausage
- 1 onion diced
- 1 large bell pepper diced
- 2 garlic cloves crushed and minced
- 10 large eggs
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1/2 paprika
- 1/4 black pepper
- salt to taste
- 6 oz shredded sharp cheddar cheese
Instructions
Cook Hash Browns:
- Preheat a large cooking pan over medium heat and add a little oil. Spread shredded hash browns in the pan and by not to overcrowd them too much. (Depending on the size of your pan, you may been to do it in two batches.)
- Season potatoes with a little salt and pepper and sauté, stirring from time to time, until hash browns are golden brown. Take them out of the pan and set aside.
Prepare the meat:
- Dice raw bacon and take breakfast sausage out of the casing (in using links).
- In the same large cooking pan over medium heat and add about a tablespoon of cooking oil
- Start cooking diced bacon until the fat is about half way cooked. Add breakfast sausage and break it up into smallest pieces you can. Keep cooking until sausage is fully cooked and the bacon fat is fully rendered.
- Take cooked meat out of the pan and set aside.
Cooking vegetables:
- Cook diced onion and bell pepper in the same cooking pan where you cooked the meats. (If there was too much grease left from the meats, you can discard most of it.)
- When onions and peppers are almost completely softened, add minced garlic and sauté for another minute of so. Take vegetables out of the pan and set aside.
Cooking Scrambled Eggs:
- Wipe down the pan and grease it with a little more oil. Keep the heat to medium-medium/low.
- Pour in the egg mixture and let it spread out. Let it start to cook on the bottom for 30-45 seconds and then use the spatula to slowly stir and mix the eggs and they cook.
- Once the eggs are no longer wet and runny, sprinkle cheese and work it throughout the eggs by gently folding and cuttings with a spatula.
- Once cheese is melted, take the eggs out of the pan.
To put together:
- Divide the eggs, meat, and vegetables among the tortillas, in the center but skewed towards the bottom.
- Fold the bottom flap onto the filling and then fold in the sides. Tucking the sides in as you go, roll the tortilla tightly with the filling.
To Crisp Up:
- Preheat a large pan over medium heat and add a little oil.
- Cook the burritos until golden brown on that side and turn 1/4 of the way. Continue to cook and turn until all 4 sides are golden.
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Originally published on Will Cook For Smiles in October 2021.
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