Tacos/Burritos are their own food group, in our house. My husband could literally eat them every single day; I've tested him on this and we went 7 days of tacos for dinner until we ran out of homemade tortillas. It's been a little while since we've had them so I decided to switch it up a little for him and make him a breakfast burrito.From scratch flour tortillas aren't just easy to make, but they also freeze really well! Just a mix of the dough in a stand mixer, a split into small balls, and then a roll of them out into whatever size tortillas you want.Since they freeze so well, whenever I make them, I usually double the recipe to get 32 tortillas that get portioned out and stored in our freezer so we have homemade tortillas ready whenever we are. This particular day, I decided to make up a sausage and egg breakfast burrito for Dan with some spicy Italian sausage, garlic, onion, sweet mini peppers, and jalapeno. So I just minced up the garlic, diced up the onion and jalapeno, and julienned the peppers,and sauteed it all up with the spicy sausage and a little salt, pepper, and oregano.Then onto a warm, fresh, homemade flour tortilla with a butter fried egg, and a healthy drizzle of sriracha hot sauce. I though about scrambling a couple of eggs to mix in with the sausage, but then realized that a deliciously runny yolk through the burrito would be messy, but oh so much better. My husband agreed, as he devoured this burrito and gave me a messy thumbs up!
Sausage and Egg Breakfast Burrito
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb of ground hot Italian sausage
- 1/4 cup of diced white onion
- 3 cloves of garlic minced
- 3 mini sweet peppers julienned
- 1/2 jalapeno diced
- 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of oregano
- fresh ground pepper to taste
- 1 large flour tortilla
- 1 large egg
- small tab of butter
- Sriracha to tatste
Instructions
- Heat a pan to medium to high heat and add the sausage, onion, garlic, and peppers. Break up sausage into small pieces as you cook it and the veggies, stirring often.
- After about 5 minutes, add the salt, oregano, and pepper and continue cooking for another 10-12 minutes until the sausage is completely cooked.
- In a separate small pan, heat to medium and add butter. Melt butter until it begins to sizzle a little add the egg.
- Let the egg cook, untouched for a couple of minutes. As the outside of the egg whites begins to set, cover the pan to let the top of the whites cook (by steaming the egg a bit), but keeping a nice runny yolk, 5-7 minutes.
- Lay tortilla flat and add sausage mixture. Top with the fried egg and sriracha.
- Wrap it up and dig in!
Brian Jones
Now that is what I call a breakfast fit for champions!
Tracy
Agreed, Brian! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Christine
We are the same in this house, except the tortilla addict is me. Breakfast burritos sound divine!
Tracy
Haha I have to say that he's certainly showing me the way of the burrito/taco addiction... they're so versatile! Thank you!