PW's Breakfast Burritos

A few months ago I saw a blog post about breakfast tacos. It was simply sausage and eggs cooked separately then spooned on to small fajita size tortillas with shredded cheese added - fold them in half then freeze them ready for a quick and easy breakfast. I wondered how PW's recipe compared because she cooks her burritos all together, cheese included! So this week that's what I chose from the cookbook.


Here's some of the ingredients. . . . I used diced potatoes with onions (Ree suggests using her homemade breakfast potatoes but I'll leave those for another recipe day!) HERE'S a link to Ree's recipe on her cooking site if you don't have the book and want to try these. Sometimes I find the recipes differ just a tad from the book, for instance her site says use 12 eggs, but the book said only 10. Not sure it makes that much difference, I still found there was plenty of egg in the mixture.

Brown the sausage and add in one red bell pepper

then add the potatoes

mix together the eggs, cheese, chives (which I happily picked from my herb garden!) and seasoned salt, then pour over the sausage mixture.

it looks rather yucky at this point, but that's because the eggs aren't fully cooked yet. Stir gently as the eggs cook so as not to break up the potatoes.

Once cooked spoon the mixture on to large tortillas (top with more cheese if desired says Ree - so I did ;-), fold in the sides and roll the tortilla closed.

Verdict: The sausage mixture is yummy, I love the combination of sausage egg and cheese and I always love potatoes in my breakfast tacos so it was great that they were added too. The bell pepper was a nice addition. I would definitely make them this way again, but in hindsight I would just use small tortillas and fold them in half.

The recipe says this makes 12 burritos but I only got 8 because I overstuffed them. That would have been fine if we were eating them all the same day, but when they are frozen they are pretty thick and you can't just zap them in the microwave for a 1 1/2 minutes like I do with the small tacos. I defrosted 3 of these over the weekend and 2 minutes in the microwave still had the sides piping hot but the inside just warm.

I'll make the mixture again but make small breakfast tacos - definitely a keeper though. I like how it's all made in the same pan instead of cooking the sausage then scrambling the eggs separately like I was previously doing.

What are we making next Mel?

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