This breakfast burrito recipe is loaded with eggs, sausage, beans, cheese and pico de gallo, all wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla. A quick and easy breakfast option that takes just minutes to put together.
When I want a protein packed breakfast, I often turn to ham and egg cups, a sausage casserole or these breakfast burritos. They’re the perfect hand held meal for kids and adults alike!
I’m always looking for easy breakfast recipes that my whole family will happily eat, and I’ve found that breakfast burritos are always a big hit! I love that you can easily customize breakfast burritos to everyone’s tastes, and you can have them on the table in 15 minutes. I make a big batch of these burritos at the beginning of the week for my kids to grab and reheat each day.
You can enjoy these burritos with breakfast favorites like a raspberry smoothie, cereal bars or baked oatmeal cups.
Table of Contents
- Breakfast Burrito Ingredients
- How Do You Make A Breakfast Burrito?
- Tips For The Perfect Breakfast Burrito
- Quick Tip
- Recipe FAQs
- How To Fold A Burrito
- Breakfast Burrito Variations
- More Mexican Inspired Dishes
- Love This Recipe?
- Breakfast Burrito Recipe
Breakfast Burrito Ingredients
When you make these breakfast burritos you will need butter, fully cooked breakfast sausage links, large eggs, cheddar cheese, refried beans, pico de gallo salsa, flour tortillas, salt and black pepper. See the recipe card below for amounts and details.
How Do You Make A Breakfast Burrito?
To make these burritos, first heat butter in a large pan or large skillet. Add eggs to the pan and scramble the eggs with salt and pepper. You want your eggs to be partially cooked. Move them to one side of the pan. Next, place diced breakfast sausage next to the eggs and heat the sausage through while the scrambled eggs finish cooking. Heat refried beans and lay warm tortillas out on a flat surface. Layer your ingredients over the center of the tortillas starting with beans, then eggs, sausage, cheese and salsa. Roll it all up and you’re ready to eat!
Tips For The Perfect Breakfast Burrito
- As you cook your eggs, cut the eggs into small chunks that you can later place on your tortillas.
- Layer your ingredients in the middle of your tortillas in a long oval shape. Make sure to leave some room on the ends to fold your tortillas.
- You can use store bought or homemade pico de gallo. I typically use store bought to save time for this recipe.
- This breakfast burrito recipe uses fully cooked breakfast sausage to make for a speedy prep time.
- I typically make 6 burritos at once, then store any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for use later in the week. You can reheat each breakfast burrito in the microwave for about a minute or until warmed through. The burritos will last in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
- You can also freeze your burritos for up to one month. You can reheat frozen burritos by cooking them in the microwave for 3-5 minutes.
Quick Tip
Warm your refried beans before you use them. You can warm them in a microwave safe container in your microwave on high for 1 minute.
Recipe FAQs
What does a breakfast burrito contain?
A breakfast burrito usually contains eggs, beans, cheese and salsa. Many also contain a meat like bacon, sausage or ground beef.
What makes a good breakfast burrito?
A good breakfast burrito has a good balance of eggs, salsa, cheese, beans and meat. You don’t want your burrito overwhelmed by any one ingredient. Be careful to fill, but not overstuff your burrito so that it is easy to fold and eat.
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How To Fold A Burrito
It’s important that you get all of your ingredients tightly folded inside your tortilla. The first step is to be sure not to over fill your tortilla! If you add too many ingredients, the tortilla will not be able to adequately wrap around the fillings. Layer your fillings down the middle of your tortilla, leaving about 1/2 inch of space on either end. Fold one half of the burrito over the filling, then tuck in both sides as you roll.
Breakfast Burrito Variations
While I think this recipe is delicious as written, you can add other ingredients into the mix.
- Guacamole: Add 1 tablespoon of pre-prepared guacamole to each burrito.
- Olives: Add 2 teaspoons sliced black olives to each burrito.
- Lettuce: Add 2 tablespoons of shredded romaine or iceberg lettuce to each burrito.
- Beans: You could substitute refried beans with pinto beans or black beans.
- Meat: Feel free to substitute the sausage with cooked ground beef, cooked ground turkey or cooked chorizo. You also could add cooked bacon to your burritos!
- Seasoning: Feel free to enjoy extra flavor by cooking your eggs with seasoning blends like fajita seasoning or taco seasoning.
- Cheese: Free free to add your favorite shredded cheeses like Monterey Jack cheese, pepper jack cheese or add some crumbled cotija cheese.
- Vegetables: You can add diced, cooked veggies like bell peppers, red onions or mushrooms. You could also enjoy your burrito with diced fresh tomatoes or fresh avocado.
- Potato: You can cook home fries style diced potatoes or hash browns and add them to your burrito.
- Spicy: Bring the heat with a dash of your favorite hot sauce!
You can make these breakfast burritos and enjoy them right away or enjoy them later as part of your meal prep. Once you try them, you’ll find yourself making them every week!
