Meal Prep Breakfast Burritos
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These Meal Prep Breakfast Burritos will change your mornings! Packed full with sausage, hash browns, eggs, veggies, cheese and ready for you to add your favorite toppings.
Breakfast is one of my favorite meals, but I have to admit on busy mornings sometimes I skip this meal.
And while I love cooking big breakfasts on the weekends, during the week I need to have something I can just grab and go.
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Over the summer I’ve been making these healthy smoothies, which take no time at all. But I’ve been looking for something that I could make ahead of time and actually eat instead of drink.
And batch cooking for meal prep is a huge time saver. I like being able to spend an hour in the kitchen to make 2-3 dishes, like these air fryer breakfast potatoes, that we can enjoy the rest of the week.
So I combined my love of Mexican food with the first meal of the day, which turned into these meal prep breakfast burritos. The best thing about this recipe is that the filling and serving options are totally customizable and almost endless in terms of options.
Ready to start your morning with the best breakfast burrito? Let’s get cooking!
Ingredients for Meal Prep Breakfast Burritos
Oil – either canola or olive
Hash browns – we like to use the frozen cubed kind
Sausage – choose your favorite breakfast sausage – pork, turkey, or chicken
Onion
Bell pepper – red or green
Eggs
Salt and pepper
Cheddar cheese – the shredded blend or shred yourself for extra freshness
Mexican or Monterey jack cheese
Flour tortillas – make sure you get the burrito size (10-12 inches)
Serving options
- Sour cream
- Salsa
- Picante sauce
- Green onions, thinly sliced
- Cilantro
How to Make Breakfast Burritos – Meal Prep Style
Heat your oil in a large skillet and add the hashbrowns, cooking until they are golden brown. Transfer them to a small plate.
Add the ground sausage, peppers and onions to the heated pan and cook until the meat has browned and is no longer pink (I use a meat chopper for ground meats because it gives an even chop on the meat). Then drain the grease if needed.
Put the hashbrowns back in the pan. Whisk the eggs in a small bowl, then add to the hashbrown mixture. Season with salt and pepper if desired and cook until the eggs are done.
In the meantime heat your tortillas in the microwave then start assembling your burritos.
Add the hashbrown mixture to the bottom section of the tortilla, sprinkle with cheeses and any other additional toppings.
Then fold in the sides and bring the bottom up and roll tightly.
Your burritos are ready to be served or ready to freeze!
Can Breakfast Burritos be Frozen and Reheated?
Yes and we prefer doing that to make meal prep easy.
To freeze, wrap cooled burritos individually in parchment paper, then foil. Add to a freezer-safe resealable bag or container (don’t forget to label the container). Freeze for up to 1 month. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator before reheating.
To reheat from thawed, remove the foil wrapper and place 1 burrito on a microwave-safe plate or dish. Cook for 1-2 minutes, flipping at the halfway mark until warmed through. Let rest for 30 seconds before eating.
Frozen burritos can be reheated in a 400 degree F oven: place on a baking tray and heat for 30-35 minutes.
How Long Do Breakfast Burritos Last in the Refrigerator?
As long as they are wrapped properly they will last 2-3 days in the fridge.
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Meal Prep Breakfast Burritos
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons canola or olive oil
- 1 ½ cups frozen cubed hash browns
- 1 pound ground breakfast sausage
- ¼ cup yellow onion, finely diced
- ¼ cup green or red bell pepper, or a combination, finely diced
- 8 large eggs
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1 cup Mexican or Monterey jack cheese, shredded
- 8 burrito-sized flour tortillas, 10-12 inch
Serving options
- Sour cream
- Salsa
- Picante sauce
- Green onions, thinly sliced
- Cilantro
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large skillet.
- Add hash browns & cook until golden brown. Remove from pan & place on a plate lined with a paper towel.
- Add sausage, onion and peppers to the skillet and cook until no longer pink. I use a meat chopper to get an even chop on the ground meat. Drain excess grease, if necessary.
- Place hash browns back in the pan.
- In a small bowl, whisk eggs until lightly beaten. Pour into the skillet and cook until set, stirring frequently. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Heat tortilla in microwave for 8-10 seconds, softening it to make it easier to roll.
- Spoon filling onto bottom ⅓ of each tortilla. Sprinkle with cheeses.
- Fold sides in, then bring the bottom end over the filling and roll up as tightly as possible.
- Serve immediately or freeze (see Notes for directions).
Notes
- Fillings can be customized to your preferences or what you have on hand.
- Leftovers should be wrapped in foil and stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
- To reheat (thawed): remove foil wrapper and place 1 burrito on a microwave safe plate or dish. Cook for 1-2 minutes, turning at the halfway mark, until warmed through. Let rest 1 minute before eating.
- To reheat (frozen): place frozen burritos on a baking tray and heat in a 400 degree F oven for 30-35 minutes. Let cool 1 minute before eating.
- To freeze: wrap cooled burritos individually in parchment paper, then foil. Add to a freezer safe resealable bag or container. Freeze for up to 1 month. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator before reheating.
- Nutritional information doesn’t include optional toppings.
Nutritional Estimate
Nutritional information is provided as a reference, using an online calculator. We recommend verifying the information independently for accuracy.
I make these every year before going up north between Christmas & New Years. Everyone can wake up and eat at their leisure, so simple. I have an assembly line on my kitchen table and make about 30 and freeze them in ziploc bags.
What a great idea, Sandie!
Easy and delicious! Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed them, Tiffany!