Breakfast burrito is an American breakfast item, which is prepared by wrapping different ingredients like egg, sausage, etc within a flour tortilla. This breakfast style is unique to Tex-Mex cuisine, New Mexican cuisine, and Southwestern cuisine. Chorizo, potatoes, onions, scrambled eggs, bacon and guisado are some of the ingredients used for making Southwestern breakfast burritos. A Mexican café in Santa Fa, New Mexico, has raised claims for inventing the original burritos which used to be served for breakfast back in 1975.

The café chefs stuffed potatoes and bacon within the flour tortillas and served it with cheese and chili. Mc Donald’s introduced their version of breakfast burritos in 80’s and by 90’s, it evolved into further versions. Many fast food manufacturers like Taco Bell are competing with each other to serve best breakfast burritos to their customers.

Most of the cafés around America offer lots of burrito stuffing options to the eaters. At times, they allow eaters to mix and match and order their burritos according to their taste preferences.

Breakfast Burrito Recipe: Ingredients and Method of Preparation
A typical breakfast burrito is prepared using ingredients such as potatoes, eggs, flour tortillas, browned breakfast sausage, Monterey Jack Cheese, seasoned salt, pepper and other ingredients of choice. Sometimes cooked brown rice, roasted sweet and white potatoes, crispy bacon and poblano pepper, are also added to the dish.

The eggs are broken and their contents are combined with vegetable, sausage and cheese. This egg mixture is scrambled in pan and folded within burrito. Again, some cheese is sprinkled over burrito.

Breakfast Burrito Recipe Variants

• Breakfast Bean and Egg Burritos: These burritos are popular in South-Western cuisine and prepared using green onions, bacon-baked beans, eggs and cheddar cheese. The tortilla is served with ketchup or canned salsa. The bean and egg burritos are served during breakfast, lunch or supper.

• Breakfast Pork Burritos: This burrito is prepared using pork sausage, finely chopped green pepper, chopped onion, milk, eggs, butter, salt, pepper, shredded cheese, and tortillas. This burrito variant is mostly partnered with salsa. This simple burrito variant functions as a staple breakfast dish in most of the American homes.

• Breakfast Potato and Pork Burritos: This breakfast burrito is prepared using onion, pork sausage, diced sweet red peppers or green peppers, frozen southern style hash brown potatoes, flour tortillas, eggs, and shredded cheddar cheese. All ingredients are fried in skillet along with potatoes and stuffed within browned tortillas. The burritos are served with sour cream and picante sauce.

• Greek Breakfast Burritos: These burrito variants served during breakfast contain smoked sausage, bell pepper, onion, garlic, tomato, Greek seasoning, eggs, shredded cheddar cheese, and flour tortillas. The ingredients except eggs are sauted at high heat and wrapped in flour tortillas and topped with any Greek or Mexican shredded cheese variant. This burrito variant was popularized by the expatriate Greeks living in America. This breakfast burrito is served with picante sauce.