Breakfast Taco Recipe: How to Make Bacon-and-Egg Tacos
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Last updated: May 5, 2022 • 2 min read
Breakfast tacos feature breakfast foods in a warm tortilla. You can make breakfast tacos with various ingredients, including eggs, potatoes, and sausage.
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What Are Breakfast Tacos?
Breakfast tacos consist of flour tortillas filled with various American breakfast ingredients. A part of Tex-Mex cooking, breakfast tacos typically feature bacon or breakfast sausage, hash browns, scrambled eggs, veggies, and salsa.
Breakfast Burrito vs. Breakfast Taco: What’s the Difference?
Breakfast tacos and breakfast burritos are easy breakfast dishes that typically feature the same ingredients, but they are served differently. Breakfast tacos are served open face on smaller tortillas, about six inches in size. Breakfast burritos are wrapped tightly to envelop the filling completely. Breakfast burritos require a larger tortilla, about ten to twelve inches in diameter.
5 Tips for Making Breakfast Tacos
When making breakfast tacos, consider the following flavor combinations and ingredients:
- 1. Make Tex-Mex tacos. Breakfast tacos don’t usually contain conventional taco ingredients like rice and black beans. However, you can use a hybrid of Mexican and American ingredients for a southwestern or Tex-Mex style breakfast taco. Try incorporating ingredients like chorizo sausage, jalapeños, pico de gallo, guacamole, refried beans, or chopped fresh cilantro for a southwestern flavor profile.
- 2. Add some heat. For spicy tacos, add paprika and cayenne.
- 3. Go gluten-free. Breakfast tacos are usually made with flour tortillas, but you can substitute corn tortillas for a gluten-free breakfast.
- 4. Try vegan breakfast tacos. To make vegan tacos, you can use tofu or potatoes as the main filling. Toppings can include avocado, radishes, and cilantro.
- 5. Set up a taco bar. For a fun, interactive weekend brunch set out all of the ingredients for breakfast tacos on a table with warm tortillas and let your guests build tacos with their favorite breakfast foods.
Breakfast Taco Recipe With Bacon and Eggs
makes
4 breakfast tacosprep time
10 mintotal time
38 mincook time
28 minIngredients
- 1
Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Lay the bacon in the pan in a single layer. Turn the bacon as needed, cooking until the bacon is crispy, about 10 minutes. Carefully transfer the bacon to a paper towel-lined plate, and set it aside. Do not discard the bacon grease.
- 2
Add the chopped potatoes to the hot skillet, then season with ½ teaspoon kosher salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Sauté the potatoes in the bacon grease, turning them over occasionally until each side is crispy, about 10 minutes. Add paprika and cayenne, if using, for a spicy kick. Transfer the potatoes to a bowl and cover to keep warm.
- 3
Add the remaining tablespoon of olive oil to the same skillet and set over medium heat. Add the eggs to the skillet and scramble lightly, about 2 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- 4
While the eggs are cooking, use a griddle or gas burner on low heat to warm your flour tortillas, about 1 minute each.
- 5
Place the warm flour tortillas on a serving plate. Divide the bacon, potatoes, and eggs evenly between the tortillas. Sprinkle the tortillas with green onions and cheese.
- 6
Drizzle the tacos with hot sauce and ketchup as desired for serving.
- 7
You can prepare breakfast tacos ahead of time and store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days for a fast weekday breakfast. Reheat the tacos in the microwave, wrapped in a damp paper towel until warmed through.
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