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Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos

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With a few of these on hand in the freezer, you can have a nutritious breakfast ready to serve at a moment's notice. Which is helpful, because a moment is usually all you have on a busy morning!

  • 6 8-inch flour tortillas
  • 6 eggs, beaten
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • ½ cup chopped onion (1 small onion)
  • ½ cup chopped bell pepper (approximately ½ pepper)
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Mix-in fillings (optional): Cooked chicken or turkey (shredded) or crumbled bacon
  • Toppings (optional): shredded cheese, chopped tomatoes, salsa
  • 1
    Lightly coat a cookie sheet with nonstick spray.
  • 2
    Melt ½ tablespoon butter in frying pan over medium heat and scramble eggs until done. Remove from pan and put in large bowl.
  • 3
    Fry onion and green pepper in the remaining butter until soft (3 to 5 minutes). Add to the eggs and mix gently. If you are using the mix-in fillings, gently stir them into the egg mixture.
  • 4
    Roll the tortillas in a paper towel and warm in microwave for 20 seconds.
  • 5
    Put approximately ½ cup of the egg mixture along the center of each tortilla. Add any toppings you're using, roll up the tortilla and set it on a cookie sheet. Repeat until all the egg mixture is used. Place in the freezer until firm.
  • 6
    Once frozen, remove, wrap well with wax paper and aluminum foil and refreeze.
  • 7
    To serve, remove the foil, leave the wax paper on and warm in the microwave about 2½ minutes or until warmed through.
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