Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos

Filled with breakfast sausage, melted cheese, and scrambled egg, these 4-ingredient make-ahead breakfast burritos are the kind of quick and easy breakfast treat the whole family will love.

Make-ahead breakfast burrito.

How about making some breakfast burritos today and having an easy go of breakfast the rest of the week? You know you want to! Luckily, this recipe is super quick and easy to make. All you need to do is cook the sausage, scramble the eggs, toast the tortilla, and then wrap those ingredients (along with cheese) in a burrito. They are so simple yet scrumptious. 

Recipe ingredients for make-ahead breakfast burritos.

Recipe Ingredients

  • Flour tortillas
  • Breakfast sausage
  • Eggs
  • Cheese

Brown sausage in skillet.

First, brown your sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Break up with a spatula as you do so until fully cooked and no longer pink in the center.

Pour that into a bowl and set the bowl aside.

Crack a dozen eggs into a medium bowl.

Crack a dozen eggs into a bowl.

Beat eggs well.

Beat them up really well.

Pour eggs into skillet.

Pour into a large skillet over medium-low heat.

Stir eggs until scrambled.

Stir every so often until eggs are scrambled and no longer runny.

Combine eggs and sausage in mixing bowl.

Once eggs are done, pour on top of the sausage in the bowl and stir to combine.

Time to create your breakfast burritos!

Now, set up a workstation with a large skillet to heat the tortillas in, space to fill them, the shredded cheese, and the sausage and egg mixture.

Toast tortillas in skillet.

Warm tortillas on both sides in the skillet (about 10 seconds on each side).

Lay warm tortilla on work surface.

Now take a warm tortilla and lay it out on a work surface.

Add sausage and egg mixture to the tortilla.

Spoon a good bit of filling in a line down one side. By “good bit” I mean about 1/2 a cup.

Top filling inside tortilla with cheese.

Top with the shredded cheddar cheese.

Fold up the bottom of your make-ahead breakfast burrito.

Fold up the top and bottom of the tortillas, this will keep your filling from falling out when you eat it. Then roll your flour tortilla up tightly as I did in the photo above.

Note: You don’t have to roll your tortillas this way, this is just how I do it. There is no right or wrong way to roll up a tortilla and if anyone tells you there is, find out when they became leader of the universe because I totally missed that election!

Roll your make-ahead breakfast burritos in foil and twist the ends.

After you finish making each tortilla, roll it up in aluminum foil and twist or fold the ends to seal, like this. 

Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos

Enjoy one of your make-ahead breakfast burritos now and put the ones you don’t eat in the fridge to reheat and enjoy later!

After I heat my breakfast burrito, I like to open it and add a few spoonfuls of chunky salsa, then wrap it up again and enjoy. If there is any filling leftover after I’ve used up all of my tortillas, I just pour a little cheese and salsa over it and eat it like a breakfast bowl!

Storage

  • Store your foil-wrapped breakfast burritos in the fridge for up to 4 days
  • Alternatively, enjoy freezer breakfast burritos for up to 3 months. Thaw the frozen breakfast burrito in the fridge overnight before reheating.
  • Reheat your breakfast burrito either in the microwave or oven. To prevent a soggy burrito, I recommend the oven or air fryer. To reheat in the microwave, remove the burrito from the aluminum foil and wrap it in a paper towel. Microwave until heated through (about one minute in my microwave, but microwaves vary). To reheat in the oven, preheat to 350 and place the foil-wrapped tortilla directly onto the oven rack. Heat for 7-8 minutes or until heated through.

Recipe Notes

  • You can really customize your breakfast burrito with whatever you like. I am just showing you the basic version, which is what I make for my family. We then customize our own as we reheat them. Here are some variations:
    • Add sauteed onion, green onion, spinach, or bell pepper.
    • Add cooked hash browns or tater tots.
    • Substitute the breakfast sausage for chicken, bacon, or ground beef.
    • Add a can of black beans or refried beans after you’ve browned the sausage.
    • Swap the cheddar cheese for Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, or even feta.
    • Serve with sour cream, guacamole, and salsa. If you add these beforehand they’ll make the burrito soggy.
  • For creamy scrambled eggs, add 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of milk, cream, or half and half when you scramble them in the skillet. You can also season with salt and pepper if you like.

Here are more great breakfast recipes:

Make-Ahead Breakfast Quiche

Crock Pot Oatmeal

Cracker Barrel Cheesy Hash Brown Casserole (Copycat Recipe)

Overnight Stuffed French Toast

Monkey Bread With Cream Cheese Stuffing

Make-ahead breakfast burrito.

Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos

Filled with breakfast sausage, melted cheese, and scrambled egg, these make-ahead breakfast burritos are quick, easy, and family-friendly.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: burritos
Servings: 4
Calories: 394.9kcal

Ingredients

  • 12 medium to large eggs
  • 1 cup cheddar cheese
  • 1 pound breakfast sausage
  • 10-12 large flour tortillas

Instructions

  • Crack the eggs into a large bowl. Beat well with a fork or whisk until well mixed. You can add a 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of milk or whipping cream if you like, for more creaminess.
    12 medium to large eggs
  • In a large skillet, cook the sausage over medium-high heat while cutting with a spatula to break it into small pieces, until fully cooked and no longer pink in the center. Pour into a large bowl and set aside.
    1 pound breakfast sausage
  • Reduce heat to medium-low and pour beaten eggs into the same skillet. Cook, stirring often until eggs are scrambled and no longer runny. Pour on top of the sausage in the bowl and stir to combine.
  • Heat tortillas, one at a time, in the large skillet (about 10 seconds on each side).
    10-12 large flour tortillas
  • Immediately fill with a line of the egg/sausage mixture and sprinkle a little cheese on top. Roll up the tortillas (see photos in this post for how I roll mine) and wrap each one individually in foil, twisting or folding the ends to seal.
    1 cup cheddar cheese

Serve warm and refrigerate any leftovers. To reheat, remove the burrito from the foil and wrap it in a paper towel. Microwave until heated through (about one minute in my microwave, but microwaves vary). To reheat in the oven, preheat to 350 and place the foil-wrapped tortilla directly onto the oven rack. Heat for 7-8 minutes or until heated through.

    Video

    Notes

    IMPORTANT INGREDIENT NOTE: You can really customize these with whatever you like. Onions, bell peppers, chicken or ground beef instead of sausage, etc. I am just showing you the basic version, which is what I make for my family. We then customize our own as we reheat them.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 394.9kcal
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    97 Comments

    1. 4 stars
      There aren’t too many breakfast items more delicious than a breakfast burrito! Make sure to have some salsa or hot sauce on hand for those who want an extra-spicy kick!

    2. Make Ahead Breakfast Burritos.; I believe this going to be a: Go-to Recipe. The children are beginning to ask me if I am eating healthy. This recipe is a perfect way one to add to my easy to cook meals. Thank you.

    3. Hello, I make breakfast tortillas however never made the night before. When I go to visit my son I get up early and rush so one of the days I am there he takes homemade easy to eat breakfast to his crew. If I make the night before and wrap in foil, how long and the temp of the oven would you recommend. Thank you for sharing,

    4. Love these! Have been making them for years, I usually use leftover Scrapple, bacon or sausage from Sunday’s breakfast and my daughter loves them. And now misses them since she’s gone to college and since moved out on her own. She has to take me to my surgery on Friday so this reminded me that I’ll make some for her to eat and take with her Friday for taking care of me! Thanks and keep up the great recipes!

    5. The best way I have found for freezing burritos (or breakfast tacos like we call them in Dallas) these is to wrap them well in press n seal wrap before throwing them in a ziplock. I don’t know what I did before press n seal, but I bet it involved throwing away a lot more freezer burned food! You can get so much more air out of things you’re freezing with that stuff.

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