Breakfast Burritos

Mark is always doing a last-minute hunt in the kitchen for a quick on-the-way-out-the-door breakfast. Which works out great if we have muffins or fruit or yogurt, but sometimes we don't.

Several months ago I came across this recipe for breakfast burritos, and last week I tried them for the first time. That recipe makes a *huge* batch, so I halved the recipe and made a few slight changes. I'll give you the halved recipe, here:

Breakfast Burritos
18 eggs
1 1-lb package sausage
1 32-oz package frozen hash brown potatoes (shredded)
1 4-oz can diced green chiles (*orig. recipe calls for more)
1/2 medium yellow onion
shredded cheddar and/or monterey jack cheese (*orig. recipe calls for only cheddar cheese)
salt and pepper to taste
burrito size flour tortillas

Scramble the eggs.
Cook the hash browns according to package directions.
Chop up the onion and add to hash browns as they cook.
Cook the sausage, breaking it up into small pieces as it cooks.
Grab a big mixing bowl and add the hash browns, eggs, and sausage. Mix thoroughly. Add the green chiles and any salt and pepper you'd like.

Take out your flour tortillas, sprinkle cheese down the middle and then some of the egg-hash brown-sausage mixture on top of that. (You can add however much you'd like. I used a couple of big spoonfuls.)

Fold the burrito, short ends first. Wrap each burrito individually in foil and freeze.

If you want to eat them: take them out of the freezer the night before and let them thaw in the refrigerator overnight. Remove from refrigerator, toss them into a 350° oven (we use our toaster oven) for about 20 minutes.

This halved recipe made about 24 burritos.

I've been heating these up for Mark in the mornings and he is quite appreciative, and I am thankful he's getting a hot breakfast and some protein at the start of his day.

And-- what I like about this recipe is that I can change it up so easily. Think of all the possibilties! Change the meat to bacon, ham, or whatever meat you have handy. Add tomatoes, olives, peppers, salsa, spinach, pesto, or any number of other ingredients.

Mm!