Healthy Freezer Breakfast Burritos Recipe
Healthy On-the-Go Make Ahead Burritos
These freezer breakfast burritos are great for mornings on the go! I often warm them up for my husband as he’s getting ready for work. You could also send them off with your kids before school.
The best part about having these burritos ready in the freezer whenever I need them is that they’re healthy. It’s often really hard to find healthy breakfast freezer meals in the grocery store so this is a great alternative. Plus, they’re really filling as well.
Making the Breakfast Burritos
These freezer burritos are really like any other burrito, and you can pretty much fill them with whatever you like. Don’t be afraid to customize!
The main ingredients I use are ground pork, cubed potatoes, scrambled eggs, and cheddar cheese (see the full printable recipe below). I also like to add some green chili sauce on top of the filling for some extra flavor. I think some sriracha mayo would taste good in there as well!
Freezing the Breakfast Burritos
Once you have your burritos made and folded up tightly, freezing them is easy. Simply wrap each burrito in plastic wrap, place them in a large Ziploc freezer bag, and freeze. It’s as easy as that!
This recipe makes around 10-16 burritos so these will last you for at least a week. You could double the batch if you want more burritos but after 2 weeks or so in the freezer, they might start to lose some flavor.
Serving Tips
When you’re ready to eat one of your freezer breakfast burritos, simply remove one from the Ziploc bag, wrap it in a paper towel, and put it in the microwave on defrost for 3 minutes. Then heat it on high for 1 minute.
After heating it up, let it cool for a bit so you don’t burn your mouth off, and enjoy it with some sour cream of salsa. Yum!
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Healthy Freezer Breakfast Burritos Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground pork sausage
- 1 lb. frozen cubed Ore Ida potatoes
- 12 eggs beaten
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. pepper
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 10 oz. cans green chili sauce
- 12-16 burrito sized flour tortillas I used regular size whole wheat tortillas this time and was able to make about 10 burritos.
- 2 cups cheddar cheese grated
Instructions
To prep the burrito ingredients:
- In a large skillet, brown the sausage. Remove from heat and drain excess fat. Set aside.
- Brown potatoes in oven by placing them on a baking sheet and broiling according to package instructions until crisp.
- Meanwhile, mix eggs, milk, salt and pepper together in a medium mixing bowl.
- Over medium heat, melt the butter in separate large skillet. Add egg mixture to skillet and scramble the eggs, removing from heat once the eggs are cooked but still moist.
- Warm green chili sauce over medium heat in saucepan until warmed through.
To assemble the burritos and prep to freeze:
- Warm the flour tortillas on skillet or in the microwave until soft and flexible.
- Fill tortillas with 1/3 cup scrambled eggs, 2-3 T. sausage, and 1/3 cup potatoes.
- Top with cheddar cheese and green chili sauce according to taste.
- Fold tortillas snuggly into burritos. Wrap each burrito in plastic wrap, then place in freezer bags. Freeze.
On serving day:
- Remove burrito from freezer and remove plastic wrap. Wrap in a paper towl and place in microwave on defrost for 3 minutes, then on high for 1 minute.
- Let cool and enjoy with sour cream or salsa!
I seen the recipe for biscuits and gravy, if you like tomatoes add those to your gravy mixture and you can have tomato gravy it has to be plain tomatoes or you can use juice very good my mom use to make this when I was growing up
Can I omit the potatoes?
You can. Your yield won’t be nearly as high, but skipping the potatoes is totally an option!