Simple Breakfast Burrito Recipe (6 Ingredients & Freezer Friendly)

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This simple breakfast burrito recipe is the perfect make ahead breakfast that’s both delicious and satisfying. We love making these burritos in bulk and freezing them for easy meals whenever the need arises!

Back to school time is right around the corner and for us, it’s also time to start preparing for the arrival of baby #5 due in about 8 weeks. This was the first recipe on my list to start prepping easy, freezer friendly meals for those postpartum weeks. These simple breakfast burritos would also be a perfect quick and easy breakfast on busy mornings when heading out the door to school or work.

What Do You Need to Make this Simple Breakfast Burrito Recipe?

Flexibility is the name of the game when it comes to these burritos! While I’ll share our tried and true recipe filled with eggs, sausage, onions, garlic, and topped with cheese. The sky is the limit when it comes to what’s possible. Feel free to substitute the meat and veggies however you’d like.

Tortillas – 8-inch or 10-inch tortillas work great in this recipe. I often make the 8” for feeding our kids but the 10” is more ideal for packing in more filling.

Eggs – I’ve found between 1 and 1.5 eggs is just the right amount for filling these breakfast burritos with a standard 8” tortilla.

Breakfast Sausage – You can use premade breakfast sausage or make your own by adding sausage seasonings to ground pork. We like to make our own using this recipe for sausage patties, I just add them to ground pork in this recipe instead of making them into patties. Bacon or ham would be great swaps.

Veggies – We keep it pretty simple, adding just sauteed garlic and onion, but feel free to add more veggies to this breakfast burrito recipe.

Cheese – I like to use a blend of shredded cheddar and mozzarella, but any good melting cheese would work great!

Optional Add In’s – Salsa, guacamole, or avocado slices, etc.

How to Make Breakfast Burritos?

Begin by gathering the ingredients and chopping the onion and garlic.

Sauté onion and garlic over medium to high heat. Once soft, add in breakfast sausage. Once sausage mixture is browned, remove from heat and set aside.

In separate frying pan, scramble the eggs. Once cooked, combine the eggs with the sausage mixture.

Shred the cheese if needed.

Once everything is prepared, I like to create an assembly line of sorts.

In the middle of the tortilla, add a scoop of filling and sprinkle cheese generously over the top.

Roll the tortillas like a burrito by folding the sides in and then wrapping one of the remaining sides all of the way over the filling and finishing the roll so everything holds together.

If eating fresh, bake at 350°F for 10-15 minutes until slightly crispy and cheese is melted.

Freezing Instructions

To freeze for later, place breakfast burritos on a cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper, so they don’t stick, and place in the freezer to flash freeze. 

Once frozen, place frozen burritos in gallon sized freezer bags.

To eat from frozen, thaw the breakfast burritos overnight in the fridge and the next day, warm at 350°F for 10-15 minutes.

From frozen, cook burritos at 350°F for 20-25 minutes until warmed through.

Simple Breakfast Burrito Recipe

Yield: 8 Burritos

Ingredients:

– 8 – 8” or 10” tortillas
– 12 eggs
– 1 lb ground breakfast sausage
– 1 small-medium onion, chopped
– 2 cloves garlic, minced
– 2 cups cheese, shredded
– Salt & Pepper to Taste
– Optional for serving – Salsa, sour cream, avocado or guacamole

Directions:

1. Sauté garlic and onion over medium heat. After 30 seconds – 1 minute, when the veggies start to become aromatic, add the sausage to the pan.

2. Cook everything together until sausage is browned and veggies are cooked through. Set aside.

3. In a separate frying pan over medium heat, scramble eggs. Once scrambled, add sausage mixture to scrambled eggs and mix together for burrito filling.

4. Place tortilla on a cookie sheet or flat surface, add a large scoop for the egg/sausage filling to the middle of the tortilla.

5. Sprinkle cheese generously over the top.

6. Roll like a burrito, tucking in sides and folding the filling in with one of the remaining sides.

7. If eating fresh, bake at 350°F for 10-15 minutes until tortilla crisps up and cheese melts.

Freezing Instructions:

1. Place finished burritos on a cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper.

2. Flash freeze and once completely frozen, place in freezer sized gallon bags.

3. To eat, thaw overnight and then reheat in a 350°F oven for 10-15 minutes or cook from frozen for 20-25 minutes until cooked through.

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More simple, make ahead breakfast favorites:

Egg Muffin Cups
Blueberry Oatmeal Pancakes
Easy Yogurt Bagels
Soaked and Baked Oatmeal