Breakfast Burritos with Chicken Apple Sausage

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Simple and tasty Breakfast Burritos with Chicken Apple Sausage – Full of sweet chicken-apple sausage, red onions, green peppers, melty Monterey Jack cheese and fluffy scrambled eggs in a simple flour tortilla, these easy to make breakfast burrito rock breakfast! They freeze well too, wrap in plastic wrap and store in freezer bags!!

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Breakfast Burritos with Chicken Apple Sausage

breakfast burrito

Full of sweet chicken-apple sausage, green peppers, savory cheese and fluffy scrambled egg, these breakfast burritos rock breakfast! The breakfast burrito, sometimes referred to as a breakfast wrap outside of the American Southwest, it is a variety of American breakfast composed of breakfast items wrapped inside a flour tortilla burrito. There’s no ONE right way to make a breakfast burrito. But if you follow this easy recipe, you’re guaranteed perfect results every time.

  • Author: Power of Family Meals
  • Prep Time: :15
  • Cook Time: :10
  • Total Time: :25
  • Yield: 4 1x
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Method: Stove Top
  • Cuisine: American

Ingredients

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  • 2 tablespoons Crisco® Pure Canola Oil
  • 2 links (3 ozs. each) fully cooked chicken sausage with real apples, chopped
  • 1 cup finely chopped red onion
  • 1 medium green pepper, finely chopped
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
  • 4 (10-inch) flour tortillas
  • 1 ripe avocado, diced
  • 1/4 cup sour cream divided
  • 1/4 cup salsa, any variety divided

Instructions

  1. HEAT canola oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add sausage; saute 2 minutes. Add onion and green pepper; cook 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
  2. WHISK eggs, hot pepper sauce, salt and pepper in medium bowl until completely blended. Push sausage mixture to one side of skillet. Add egg mixture to opposite side of skillet. Stir eggs gently as they begin to set, forming soft curds. Fold into sausage mixture and continue cooking until eggs are set. Remove from heat. Sprinkle evenly with cheese.
  3. Spoon sausage mixture vertically down center of each tortilla. Fold one side of each tortilla toward center, tightly covering filling. Fold top and bottom ends in about 2 inches. Roll tightly to completely enclose filling. Place seam side down on serving plates. Garnish each burrito with diced avocado, 1 tablespoon sour cream and 1 tablespoon salsa.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 4
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