Easy Breakfast Burrito Recipe with Vegetables and Bacon

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Who has time for that when your kids have to be at school and you have to be at work so early? This easy breakfast burrito recipe with vegetables and bacon is an excellent option that’s healthy, easy, tasty, and the ultimate portable breakfast.

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Are Frozen Breakfast Burritos Healthy?

Almost unequivocally, frozen breakfast burritos are not healthy. I’m here to tell you that there is an exception to every rule. Homemade breakfast burritos that are rich in vegetables are not only healthy but easy and delicious for the grab-and-go breakfast we all need on those mornings when we’re running late.

What Goes Good in Breakfast Burritos?

This can be summed up in one word: spice. Breakfast burritos will almost always have a savory, sometimes even cheesy flavor. Adding a fermented pepper hot sauce, like Sriracha or Yellow Bird Sauce, will compliment the savory with some spicy and tangy flavor notes. If you are spice-averse, try eating your breakfast with some freshly made guacamole.

What Does a Breakfast Burrito Contain?

Breakfast burritos are all about creativity, so feel free to try different combinations and switch them up often so they don’t get boring. Some ingredients I enjoy using in our breakfast burritos include egg, beans, cheese, bacon, sausage, potato, vegetables, spinach, kale, tomatoes, and hot sauce.

Another thing we often do is include leftovers in our breakfast burritos. The recipe below was half leftovers from meals throughout the week. Pan-seared mixed vegetables, bacon crumbles from a salad, and pinto beans from taco night. All of these ingredients made these breakfast burritos easy to put together and prevented those leftovers from being wasted.

Breakfast Burrito Recipe with Vegetables Ingredients

Now that we have explored what to put in your breakfast burritos, and what to serve them with, let’s look at the ingredients I have selected for this easy breakfast burrito recipe with vegetables and bacon. If you are making these with 8-inch tortillas, you will want about a serving spoonful of the main ingredients per burrito and just a sprinkle of the cheese and bacon.

Tortillas

Your local market or Costco will likely have uncooked tortillas. These have become a refrigerator staple in our house to make tacos, quesadillas, breakfast burritos, and even taco salad bowls. They last a long time in the refrigerator and take very little effort to cook, not to mention they taste better than store-bought cooked tortillas. They are also a convenient size at around 8 inches.

Pinto Beans

Don’t feel bad about using canned pinto beans or even black beans in your breakfast burritos. But, if you are feeling inspired or have some leftovers from a previous meal, making pinto beans in the instant pot is super easy, cost-effective, and healthy.

Scrambled Eggs

This recipe calls for eight eggs because these petite breakfast burritos really don’t have enough room for more than one egg each. Scramble them up and lightly salt them, these are essential for breakfast burritos.

Mixed Vegetables

This was another ingredient that we had left over from the dinner the night before. Simple pan-prepared vegetables including broccoli, carrots, onions, and kale. Nothing fancy here, but loaded with fiber, vitamins, minerals and not to mention flavor and texture. These veggies were quite large when I prepared them for dinner, so I ran my knife through them till they were finely chopped, making them easier to use as a burrito filling later.

Flavor

The last 2 ingredients are grated cheese and crumbled bacon. To keep these balanced more toward healthy, we add these ingredients by the pinch, not by the spoonful. A sprinkle of cheese and half of a piece of bacon crumbled over the rest of the ingredients goes a long way toward flavor without adding unnecessary calories or guilt.

Cooking Directions

There are three important phases to making excellent breakfast burritos:

1. Gathering and preparing the ingredients
2. Assembling the burritos
3. Heating them to eat in the morning

Gathering and Preparing the Ingredients

Don’t overcomplicate this step. Five simple ingredients are used for filling the breakfast burrito with vegetables and all of them should be cooked before you move on to assembly.

• Open the can of pinto beans and pour it into a small pot. Add half of a can of water. Heat over medium heat and stir occasionally until the liquid steams.
• Place a 12-inch skillet over medium heat. If you are using uncooked tortillas, now is the time to cook the tortillas and set them aside.
• Cook the bacon in the pan and set aside on a paper towel-lined plate or drip tray.
• Chop up your mixed vegetables of choice. Scrape the pan and drain off most of the bacon rendering then cook the veggies in the pan and set aside.
• Scramble the eggs in a bowl and cook them in the same pan.
• Gather the grated cheese.

Assemble the Burritos

• Gather 8 pieces of parchment paper large enough to wrap the burritos.
• With a metal serving spoon take one scoop of beans, one scoop of eggs, and one scoop of vegetables, and place them on a tortilla.
• Sprinkle a pinch or two of cheese and half a slice of bacon crumbled over the eggs, veggies, and beans.
• Roll the ingredients up in the tortilla to form the burrito, roll the burrito up in a piece of parchment paper, and place it in a gallon-sized plastic bag.

Heating and Serving

I literally discovered the importance of heating these in a pan this week and I can’t overstate how game-changing it is for this recipe. These burritos store well in the refrigerator for four or five days, and for much longer in the freezer. If you are making 40 burritos, so that you have a month of breakfasts set aside, you will definitely need to freeze them.

The microwave is an acceptable way to heat up these burritos, especially when you are short on time, and just need to get out of the door.

Heating them in a pan on your stove, however, is by far and away the best way to warm them up. By browning them in a pan not only do you get an amazing toasty texture and a richer flavor from the tortilla, but you also avoid the common problems associated with microwaving.

Heating from Frozen

Take your burrito from the freezer the night before and thaw it in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning heat your skillet over medium heat and place your breakfast burrito in it. Check frequently and once your desired toasty appearance is achieved, flip the burrito and toast the other side.

These burritos are conveniently wrapped in parchment paper for eating on the go. Grab your favorite squeeze bottle of hot sauce and off you go.