Breakfast Enchiladas – Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts

Breakfast Enchiladas – tortillas filled with eggs, breakfast sauce, salsa, and cheese. Topped with green chile sauce for a delicious breakfast!

Enchiladas for breakfast? Yes please! Breakfast Tacos are one of our favorites, so why not enchiladas?! Mexican food and Tex-Mex should be around all day, every day as far as I am concerned.

Breakfast Enchiladas

These breakfast enchiladas are the perfect breakfast for dinner, great for a weekend brunch, or when you have a house full of people. You can fill them with whatever your favorite breakfast meat is, use your favorite salsa, and then top with enchilada sauce. I like green chile enchilada sauce when pairing with eggs, but this Homemade Enchilada Sauce is great if that is more your style.

What You’ll Need

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• Tortillas – you can use flour or corn for these. I make them both way and both are delicious.
• Eggs
• Milk
• Salsa
• Breakfast Sausage
• Shredded Cheese
• Green Chile Enchilada Sauce

How To Make Breakfast Enchiladas

1. Start by browning your breakfast sausage, breaking it apart in a skillet. Once it is cooked through, remove from the pan and drain on a paper towel lined plate.
2. Crack your eggs into a large bowl and whisk well with the milk. Add to the skillet you cooked the sausage in, and cook until the eggs are scrambled.
3. Mix together your cooked eggs, sausage, and salsa until combined.
4. Warm the tortillas in a clean towel for about a minute, so they are nice and pliable.
5. Fill each tortilla with 1/4 – 1/3 cup of the egg mixture, roll and place seam side down in baking dish. Repeat with the rest of the tortillas and egg mixture.
6. Pour enchilada sauce over the rolled tortillas, sprinkle with any cheese that is left, cover with foil and bake for 35-40 minutes, until everything is hot and bubbly.
7. Remove from the oven and let stand for 5 minutes before serving.

Can You Make Breakfast Enchiladas Ahead Of Time

Absolutely! These are great to assemble the night before and just bake in the morning. You will need to increase the cook time by about 10 minutes, to make sure they are warmed completely through. If I am making them ahead of time I like to use corn tortillas instead of flour, I think that flour tortillas absorb more of the sauce, so they tend to be a little more soggy if you let them sit.

You can even FREEZE enchiladas! Wrap your pan of enchiladas tightly with foil and they will last in the freezer for 2-3 months. Let them thaw in the fridge overnight before baking.

Do You Use Flour Or Corn Tortillas

Traditionally in Mexico enchiladas are always made with corn tortillas. Anything with a flour tortilla would be considered a burrito. But, I am pretty sure that breakfast enchiladas are an entirely American idea. You can use whatever tortilla you have and like. I have made them both ways, and it really is just personal preference with this.

I do find that flour tortillas tend to soak up more of the sauce, so if you are letting them sit overnight or even freezing them, I personally like corn tortillas better.

Recipe Tips & Variations

• Mix up your toppings! Not only can you use red enchilada sauce instead of green, you can top with sour cream, diced tomatoes, avocado, jalapenos, cilantro etc. to mix up the flavors and texture and really make them your own.
• Don’t like sausage? No problem! You can use bacon, ham, Canadian bacon, or any variety of sausage you like; chicken and turkey sausage are great!
• Mix up your tortillas. You could even use low carb tortillas if you were needing to cut back.
• Make sure to warm your tortillas before you start filling them. This will make them pliable and much more easy to work with. If you are using corn tortillas, this is 100% necessary to prevent them from cracking.

What Goes With Breakfast Enchiladas

If you are hosting a brunch or have a house full of people, you will definitely want a few more things to fill your guests up! Here are great ideas of a few things you can pair with them.

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