These delicious sausage and egg tortillas are topped with Jack cheese and avocado

How To Make Mexican Breakfast Tortillas
Prep:
20 mins
Cook:
25 mins
Total:
45 mins
Ingredients
- 4 flour tortillas, 7-inch
- 4 sausage, brown-and-serve links
- 6 eggs
- ¾ cup Monterey Jack cheese, about 3 oz, shredded , or cheddar cheese
- ⅛ tsp salt
- ⅛ tsp pepper
- 1 tbsp margarine , or butter
- salsa, optional, bottled
- avocado , optional, peeled, slices
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Prepare sausages:
- With a sharp, small knife, cut each sausage link down the middle lengthwise, ending up with 2 long pieces.
- In an 8-inch skillet cook halved sausage links over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes or until brown, turning often with tongs.
- Remove pan from heat.
- With tongs, carefully remove sausages from pan.
- Drain on layers of paper towels.
Prepare the eggs:
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Beat the eggs in a large mixing bowl. Add the salt and pepper.
- With a wire whisk or fork, beat the mixture until yolks and whites are combined.
- Add margarine or butter to the same skillet used to cook the sausages.
- Cook over medium heat until margarine or butter is melted and bubbly.
- Slowly pour egg mixture into the skillet.
- Cook 1 minute without stirring.
- Cook 4 minutes more or until eggs are firm but still moist and shiny, stirring often.
- Remove pan from heat.
Assemble Breakfast Tortilla:
- Lightly grease a baking sheet.
- Lay tortillas out flat on the baking sheet.
- Spoon some of the eggs onto half of each tortilla.
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Place two cooked sausage halves on top of the eggs on each tortilla.
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Top each with cheese.
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Fold the empty half of the tortilla over filling.
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Stick a toothpick through the top of each tortilla to keep the tortilla from flapping open while baking.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes until the cheese is melted.
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Cut each filled tortilla into quarters (for smaller bites). Remove toothpicks.
- Serve with salsa and avocado slices, if you like.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 2g
- :
- Calcium: 234mg
- Calories: 549kcal
- Carbohydrates: 16g
- Cholesterol: 326mg
- Fat: 40g
- Fiber: 1g
- Iron: 3mg
- Potassium: 365mg
- Protein: 29g
- Saturated Fat: 15g
- Sodium: 1048mg
- Vitamin A: 715IU
- Vitamin C: 1mg
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