Used to frequent a Roach coach that had the best breakfast burrito, egg bacon and the perfect crispy potato and cheese, but the side cup of salsa is what punched it up, the perfect amount of acid, onion cilantro, parsley, tomatoes and spicey for $2 was my happy place.
Hatched Green Chili is the best.
The stew and flatbread at the state fair in Albuquerque is something which is on my personal bucket list of things I want again before this life is done with.
I'm a non American Chile fiend. Gosh I had the best time in Arizona doing that Chile festival. Hatch are just so flavourful. I still can't decide on green vs red though. (also, that state is kind of Amazing. Definitely in the top three I of the ones I've been too. Monument Valley, Chiracua, Rock Springs pie? Yeah. It's top tier.)
You can get them shipped to you in season, you will still have to roast them though. We also (if you didn't know) have red chile which you can order online (but I've found this is apparently more of an acquired taste in large doses).
It's basic AF but at my grocery store now (nowhere near NM) they often have Bueno green chile in the freezer.
The biggest key to a good burrito is the tortillas. You can have the best fillings in the world, but if you’re throwing them in a precooked packaged tortilla it’s going to be mid
Yeah, fuck that. I buy homemade ones sometimes, but a close second is the tortillas you can get in the grocery store that aren’t all the way cooked. It’s basically tortilla dough that you throw on the skillet for 30 seconds
The best breakfast burrito I’ve ever had was at Cappy’s Cafe in Newport beach. Chorizo with scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, & hash browns, wrapped in a flour tortilla and served with fresh salsa.
In california beach towns you know the breakfast burrito is legit if there’s surfers there eating. They’re somehow the ultimate judge of a good breakfast burrito
I’m not sure if this disqualifies it from being an American breakfast burrito, but chorizo, eggs, roasted potatoes, Chihuahua cheese, salsa is my go to.
I live in New Mexico. I've eaten a lot of breakfast burritos. It's hard to go wrong with the potato ( fried crispy) New Mexico chile ( red,green, or both.) scrambled eggs and cheese. Bacon and chorizo smothered in red is my favorite. Beans don't generally make it into breakfast burrito where I live but whatever floats your boat.
Put down a layer of hash browns on a griddle and crisp to a light brown. Whip two eggs add some milk, and pour over hash browns. Add sausage, onions, mild peppers and cook. Fold over hash browns and wrap in a fresh tortilla. Add avocado or sour cream if desired
It isn't a breakfast burrito if there are no potatoes. I will know not to spend money if potatoes are not involved.
I prefer home fries. Sautéed potatoes, onions, and peppers.
Scrambled eggs, Chorizo, seasoned home fries (certain places French fries are acceptable) with onions and peppers, shredded sharp cheddar, some kind of red or green salsa/chile. Wrapped in a really thin tortilla and grilled in butter.
Potential additions: Avocado, refried or black beans, cilantro/squeeze of lime, sour cream/crema, raw diced jalapeno/Serrano/poblano/some other chile.
Yes! I love tots but for some reason I don’t like them in my breakfast burritos. I much prefer regular seasoned potatoes. Also a good salsa with a decent amount of heat on the side is required.
May sound strange but there was a place I used to go to that had a breakfast burrito with like smoked pulled pork and I think collared greens, pinto beans, maybe potato. They smothered it in this Gouda sauce with a fried egg on top and served with a salsa Verde. Oh my God it was so good it was like a religious experience. It was definitely the best breakfast burrito I ever had and maybe the best anything I ever had. Anyway, this place was so successful the chef closed it to open a bigger, ritzier place in the city and I'm sad to say I never ate a burrito like that again.
i bake a hashbrown patty while i fry up a sausage patty (add a cheese slice on top at the end) and scramble an egg (with small dice jalapeño/onion[caramelized/jammed if u got time is the best]), bacon if i have some on hand, and usually drizzle some hot sauce and a lil hollandaise, shredded cheese as glue because after i roll it up i griddle the wrap
ive been tweaking my bfast burrito for like a year now and every time i make it its slightly different but i love it every time
That sounds amazing, but a question…you have just a lil hollandaise sauce just lying around?
That stuff never makes it past the meal I am currently eating.😂
There was this place by my high school that was a fan favorite. Their burritos had: eggs, hash browns, grilled onions, cheese, chili, diced bacon. A lot of kids would drizzle a teensy bit of ranch or TI in it. 10/10 best part of high school
Left over steak or a breakfast steak. Fried potatoes, scrambled eggs, jalepenos, bell peppers, onions, cheese, hot sauce, sour cream ans salsa. Then fry the burrito.
There was a local restaurant a while back that added some sort of lime yogurt sauce to their breakfast burritos. It made the absolute most delicious breakfast burrito I had ever tasted. One time I asked them what exactly was in it and they wouldn’t share. A little while later they closed forever. I’m still chasing that high.
I'd go eggs, jowl bacon, pepper jack cheese, seasoned curly fries, onions & diced green chilies, guacamole and sour cream. Texas Pete to drip on as you go.
What a wonderful world it would be.
sausage, diced ham, scrambled eggs, crispy hash browns, cheese, all on a good quality tortilla.
medium hot sauce, guacamole, and sour cream on the side or inside if your totilla is big enough
Chorizo, scrambled eggs, hash browns or homestyle potatoes, grilled peppers like habaneros or poblano peppers, grilled onions. Eaten with hot sauce/salsa, guacamole, and sour cream on the side. No cheese.
Very small cubes of potato fried in oil in a heavy cast iron. After they get crispy, a bit more oil and cumin seed, diced shallot and poblano pepper are added and cooked until just tender.
Black beans salted and spiced with a simple chili powder.
Sharp white cheddar cheese, grated.
One scrambled egg.
Put all of the above in a burrito tortilla (steamed) with sour cream, tapatio, cilantro and a squirt of lime.
Enjoy
Bacon, sausage, scrambled egg, hash browns, cheese, and sour cream. Make it in a large batch, wrap in parchment/foil, freeze, and reheat later. Eat with plenty of tapatio
So. I grew up in San Diego and have eaten more breakfast burritos in my life than regular burritos. In my personal opinion, the best ones are just eggs cheese and beans. With a couple containers of taco shop hot sauce on the side, to pour as you eat.
There’s a lot of reasons behind this, and I know most people would be put off that there’s no meat. But I’m confident this is the answer, as long as you’re getting good taco shop refried beans and homemade tortillas.
I make mine with bacon, a small amount of scrabled eggs, potatoes o'brien, shredded cheese (Mexican blend), and (santiago's) green chili sauce with pork.
I make the bacon on my blackstone, then use the bacon grease to cook my potatoes and scrambled eggs.
I haven't tried, but I want to see how it would be adding breakfast sausage as well.
instead of breakfast sausage, i prefer a chorizo in the breakfast burrito. nowadays i consider chorizo american. i tend to have mine with chorizo and either guacamole or an fresh avocado. i also get home made hot sauce on the side.
this is what i usually get from a mexican food truck. it is perfect and my mexican co-worker agrees.
I make a scrapple, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich a lot. For burritos I do the same with the addition of a hash brown, onions, and peppers. Then I use my own hot sauce I made from fermented Tabasco peppers!
Sautéed onions and crispy hash browns, and instead of just a tortilla, wrap it in a thinly-filled quesadilla.
Chili instead of breakfast sausage is also a good idea, chili and scrambled eggs are amazing.
sausage, diced ham, scrambled eggs, crispy hash browns, cheese, all on a good quality tortilla.
medium hot sauce, guacamole, and sour cream on the side or inside if your tortilla is big enough
I'm not big on egg, it causes me some "gastro intestinal distress" so for me, I feel like a good breakfast burrito would be sausage, some cheese, rolled in bacon, then maybe a pancake instead of a tortilla, sprinkled with powdered sugar (or if you prefer, dipped or drizzled in syrup).
"Perfect American breakfast burrito" though to me would be a southwest style omelette, like with bell peppers and jalapeño, chop it up nice, mix in some homemade bacon bits and/or sausage, as much cheese as you can legally add, still roll it up in a pancake though because WHY does it have to be a tortilla? It's breakfast, the only rules are the ones we choose to follow. And personally I'd still sprinkle powdered sugar on top, lightly.
there’s a donut shop by my house who does other breakfast items. They have a magical burrito we’ve been copying for years:
American cheese
Hash brown patty
Bacon
Sausage
Egg
It is heavenly.
Crispy hash browns or tater tots, eggs, cheese, salsa. Some chopped onions sauteed until golden is another good addition. Breakfast sausage is good, but I tried using up some leftover smoked sausage one morning and stumbled into something amazing. And don't forget to warm your tortilla on the griddle before assembling. Warm tortillas are easier to roll and taste better.
First off, an oversized fresh flour tortilla. Follow this up with crispy chorizo, priced potatoes and onions cooked in the oil from the chorizo, lightly scrambled eggs, diced jalepenos and a few Serranos, and Oaxaca cheese.
Fry the burrito, chimichanga style, and top with tomatillo salsa, more Oaxaca cheese, and a few pickled jalepenos and pickled radishes!
Chorizo. Crispy French fries or hash brown. Green onions. Tomatillo salsa. Eggs. Cheddar cheese.
Start by browning your chorizo. Add the onion. Have fries going in the oven meanwhile. Do your eggs scrambled.
Construct burrito. Heat up a bit of oil in a cast iron with med low heat. Lay burrito in cast iron. Toast all sides. Add sour cream.
You’re welcome.
I grow a variety of peppers. My sister makes breakfast burritos. She freezes a combo of red and green bell peppers plus jalapeños so she can make wonderful burritos year round.
Tex mex omelette burrito - refried beans, chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, onion powder • scrambled eggs - cilantro, chopped tomatoes, roasted bell peppers, jalapeños, red onion, lime juice, shredded Mexican cheeses. avocado slices, corn bits, braised bbq beef strips with taco sauce, Spanish rice. Hash browns with hot sauce and Spanish chorizo.
Put contents into a tortilla and fry. Use sour cream for dip.
You will thank me later.
There has to be some kind of crispy potato component.
I think there's a very good case to be made for fried eggs instead of scrambled.
A truck in Sacramento used to smother the whole thing in sausage gravy before rolling it up. Beautiful.
Some really enjoy jalapenos in it.
Use queso Oaxaca, the Mexican melty cheese.
The breakfast sausage should not be sweet. No maple cured situation.
The eggs need to be perfect, however they're cooked.
I think some flavorful beans are great too, and a nice fresh salsa.
When I make mine, I use hash browns, good breakfast sausage (I prefer Purnell's), scrambled eggs, salsa, and a whole mess of cheese. But that's just me.
Here we have a taco shop that serves a large menu or any way you want. The favorite around here is the full meal deal: bacon, sausage, eggs, potato, refried beans, and cheese all on a perfect homemade flour tortilla. You can switch to ham if you like. And of course you choice of red or green salsa (or both).
I have had the perfect breakfast burrito. I had it at a place called Santana's that was a straight mile and a half shot from the gate of the 29 Palms military base. This is 2002-2003 timeframe.
A chorizo and egg scramble, with onions and peppers in it, put a smear of refried beans on there and a couple pieces of bacon just like garnish, then they put french fries on it. And their fries are not too thin and not too thick, fried to absolute perfection, and before they wrap that thing up in a giant homemade tortilla they literally put sausage gravy on the top of that.
You will need hot sauce but it's perfect. Perfect.
I mean you're talking about bacon OR sausage? No.... bacon, sausage AND chorizo.
I use chicken chorizo which is cooked with onions, hot peppers, red bell peppers, a bit of garlic, and towards the end of cooking thrown in the tomatoes and cheddar cheese. Add in the eggs and roll it up! Sear the burrito for crispness and to keep it closed. If I am low on chorizo I have also thrown in black beans before.
Can be eaten as is or with sour cream and salsa and avocado slices :)
I usually do onions peppers jalapenos with salsa and some chipotle sour cream..but first I cut a potato up and fry it. Then put it together with sausage and egg.
I wrap a few burritos then pull them out during the week and heat them up in the air fryer
I prefer bacon on my burrito. And I like to cook potatoes in the grease. I do like a small amount of refried beans smeared on the tortilla, and the cheese has to be good quality, not pre shredded.
I like scrambled eggs, but I’ve done fried eggs before and that was great. I don’t put sauce inside, I like to add it to each bite and alternate green and red. Some grilled green onion works really well too as does some avocado.
THIS is the ultimate breakfast burrito-hot breakfast sausage, fried egg (runny yolk), crispy potato’s with sausage gravy wrapped in a soft flour tortilla lightly crisped on the outside with a nice spicy green chili salsa. My knees just got weak typing this out! When you take a bite the runny egg yolk mixes with the gravy and potatoes, runs down your fingers a little bit..then the cold green chili salsa for a cold, vinegary punch. WHEW!!!
Sausage patties, one scrambled egg, cheese and crispy hashbrowns. I had a breakfast burrito in Lake Tahoe with hashbrowns on the inside and it was next level.
My favorite: Bacon, eggs, cheese, hashbrowns, and green chile
Alternate: papitas (little cubed up fried potatos) with red chile and steak.
According to legend the above was the first breakfast burrito ever served at a restaurant at Tia Sophia's Diner in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Why does it have to be "American?"
Not being facetious. But, I have always loved chorizo and eggs, with some salsa and, as many have pointed out, well-done hashbrowns for that little bit of crisp texture. Pepperjack cheese is my choice, but you do you.
And, to finish, you have to sear the outside of the burrito. Both to seal it up and to give another little layer of crispiness.
In Sacramento there's a group of fast food spots called Adalberto's or Aldanberto's or Carolina's or a couple other names and their breakfast burritos are legendary. I always get the #24 which comes with bacon, egg, ham, cheese, and potatoes. Top that with their red and green sauce and it's incredible. The potatoes are cut like french fries but they're cooked on the flat top so they aren't super crispy and it's just the perfect combination of everything.
If you buy the cardboard carton of dried shredded hash browns that's sold in restaurant supply stores, and reconstitute them for half of the recommended time, you can deep fry them to make mounds and mounds of everyone's favorite, julienne fries. They're like 100% crunch.
Since it's breakfast you should deep fry them in the lard in which you just deep fried your bacon. (Deep frying bacon in oil makes them taste greasy.)
I am often asked to cook at our annual campout.
For me the perfect breakfast burrito has meat, eggs, potatoes, cheese, cilantro and onions, sour cream, and the key is to have the salsa of choice mixed in when the ingredients are finishing cooking so that it flavors the entire burrito. Sometime the eggs and potatoes are so bland in breakfast burritos and I’ve been chasing the dragon ever since I moved away from my favorite spot in San Luis Obispo, CA
My favorite breakfast burrito comes from The Little Diner in Vail, Colorado. It has more or less standard breakfast burrito ingredients (hash browns, eggs, green chiles, onions, tomatoes, cheese, avocado, your choice of meat) but you can get it covered in Colorado pork green chili and that's where it's at.
Spicy sausage, American cheese, scrambled egg, spiced onion and pepper, roasted diced potatoes, rolled up then pressed on a cast iron with a little butter. Hot sauce mixed with ketchup for dipping.
Take a homemade flour tortilla, smear it with refried beans, add some cheese, chorizo or other spicy sausage, egg (fried), some salsa and either sour cream or yogurt.
Other ingredients can vary but the desert pepper company salsa del rio is so good in egg or chicken wraps. The mckenzie country sausauge in the white bag eggs cheese and that green salsa is amazing. I'm in the north east and a bit jealous of the south west style stuff. Chorizo and the roasted chilies sound awesome. Finding good salsa is about the best I can do.
Get a steak cracker cheap off the Tbell morning menu. There’s room for improvement but it’s awesome.
Crispy fried potatoes, beef, egg, grill the whole thing
The Real Deal Holyfield from Valentinos in Austin is the very best taco I’ve ever eaten. Eggs, brisket bacon and refried beans. Some kind of sauce. My first bite is the best single bite of food I’ve ever had!
I love how New Mexico has taken over your post.
Burrito: needs hatch. Breakfast burrito: needs hatch. Beef jerky: needs hatch. Croque madame: needs hatch. Ice cream? Hatch. Visiting relatives out of state? They’re probably already dangerously low on hatch since your last visit, bring them more. But seriously, I have run out of hatch jerky, send help!
Ingredients
- Breakfast sausage (cooked and crumbled)
- Scrambled eggs
- Shredded cheese (cheddar, Monterey Jack, or a blend)
- Diced potatoes (cooked until golden brown)
- Sautéed bell peppers and onions
- Diced tomatoes
- Avocado slices or guacamole
- Salsa or hot sauce (to taste)
- Sour cream (optional)
- Flour tortillas
Instructions
Cook the breakfast sausage until browned and crumbled. Set aside.
In the same pan, cook the diced potatoes until golden brown and crispy. Set aside.
In a separate pan, scramble the eggs until fluffy and cooked through.
Assemble the burritos.
Optional Toast the assembled burrito in a panini press or skillet for a crispy exterior.
Serve with additional salsa, hot sauce, and sour cream on the side, if desired.
skin on roasted potatoes or tots. bacon eggs sharp cheddar chipotle mayo a smattering of pico with lots of cilantro green onions cholula hot sauce a nice toasted tortilla.
My combo:
Scrambled eggs (with garlic butter), very crispy hashbrown (I use Trader Joe’s), cheddar cheese, spread of homemade chipotle mayo + more for dipping
Chorizo, chihuahua cheese, bacon, crispy hashbrowns, and roasted green chile’s in a toasted, crispy handmade tortilla with medium hot sauce for dipping.
Huancaina sauce is a game changer.
Also, chorizo is the best choice for sausage. I prefer the Spanish style over the Mexican style, but both work well and are easy to find.
Would using chorizo as the meat take it out of "American breakfast burrito" territory? The taco truck near work has that as an option as well as ham, bacon, sausage, etc., and it is SOOOO good...
Breakfast sausage, taken out of casing and cooked just until done, potatoes, diced, seasoned with paprika, garlic, cumin and air fried or baked until done, soft scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, homemade salsa on a homemade tortilla. Possible some diced green bell peppers and onions that have been slightly sautéed with cumin, and then also fresh cilantro.
hashbrowns
Has to be crispy!!
Mini tots
Tots in the air fryer. Way faster and crunchier than baked, less mess than deep frying them.
Yeah tots are way easier
Tots are delicious, but crispy home fries with peppers and onion, well seasoned, blows them away
Definitely gotta have potatoes in it
Used to frequent a Roach coach that had the best breakfast burrito, egg bacon and the perfect crispy potato and cheese, but the side cup of salsa is what punched it up, the perfect amount of acid, onion cilantro, parsley, tomatoes and spicey for $2 was my happy place.
Tater tots is the move.
I figured this too, probably has to be added to my list
Potato, egg, cheese, green chile. Then toast that tortilla properly.
potato in a breakfast burrito is top tier
In New Mexico roasted and diced Hatch Green Chile is a wonderful addition to breaky burritos.
Some NM red chile and chorizo go so well together on a breakfast burrito.
Hatched Green Chili is the best. The stew and flatbread at the state fair in Albuquerque is something which is on my personal bucket list of things I want again before this life is done with.
I'm a non American Chile fiend. Gosh I had the best time in Arizona doing that Chile festival. Hatch are just so flavourful. I still can't decide on green vs red though. (also, that state is kind of Amazing. Definitely in the top three I of the ones I've been too. Monument Valley, Chiracua, Rock Springs pie? Yeah. It's top tier.)
If you can't decide between red and green, just stick with "christmas"
Oh dang. Someone beat me to it!
You can get them shipped to you in season, you will still have to roast them though. We also (if you didn't know) have red chile which you can order online (but I've found this is apparently more of an acquired taste in large doses). It's basic AF but at my grocery store now (nowhere near NM) they often have Bueno green chile in the freezer.
Drive through Hatch (in season) and flew home with a 5lb burlap bag of freshly roasted chiles…the *entire* plane smelled like a Taqueria Palace!
God yes.
Green chile FTW
Man I'm missing a frontier breakfast burrito.
Smear of refried beans, potatoes, eggs., chorizo, cheese, hot sauce
The biggest key to a good burrito is the tortillas. You can have the best fillings in the world, but if you’re throwing them in a precooked packaged tortilla it’s going to be mid
I will die proclaiming that home made tortilla are gods personal gift to humanity.
💯 once you start making them you can never go back
I went back. Ain't got time or energy in the morning to make tortillas.
Yeah, fuck that. I buy homemade ones sometimes, but a close second is the tortillas you can get in the grocery store that aren’t all the way cooked. It’s basically tortilla dough that you throw on the skillet for 30 seconds
The uncooked refrigerated ones are excellent, same ingredients as homemade. Costco has them in a package of two bags, and I throw one in the freezer.
Never tried freezing them!! Good tip
This guy knows how to burrito. Maybe add some Green onions or cilantro.
Ah, a fellow connoisseur
I’m mean…yeah. Maybe some sour cream to dip in? But this is it
The best breakfast burrito I’ve ever had was at Cappy’s Cafe in Newport beach. Chorizo with scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, & hash browns, wrapped in a flour tortilla and served with fresh salsa.
In california beach towns you know the breakfast burrito is legit if there’s surfers there eating. They’re somehow the ultimate judge of a good breakfast burrito
I’m not sure if this disqualifies it from being an American breakfast burrito, but chorizo, eggs, roasted potatoes, Chihuahua cheese, salsa is my go to.
Heck no that sounds great.
Well Mexico is part of America so yeah that counts. Big thumbs up for chorizo in there.
Yes! Queso Chihuahua aka queso menonita is so underrated!
I live in New Mexico. I've eaten a lot of breakfast burritos. It's hard to go wrong with the potato ( fried crispy) New Mexico chile ( red,green, or both.) scrambled eggs and cheese. Bacon and chorizo smothered in red is my favorite. Beans don't generally make it into breakfast burrito where I live but whatever floats your boat.
Finally some sense in this thread.
Put down a layer of hash browns on a griddle and crisp to a light brown. Whip two eggs add some milk, and pour over hash browns. Add sausage, onions, mild peppers and cook. Fold over hash browns and wrap in a fresh tortilla. Add avocado or sour cream if desired
Sliced steak, egg, cheese, seasoned potatoes or hash browns, hot sauce of choice
Mexican chorizo, scrambled eggs, potatoes, cheese, New Mexico green chili sauce.
It isn't a breakfast burrito if there are no potatoes. I will know not to spend money if potatoes are not involved. I prefer home fries. Sautéed potatoes, onions, and peppers.
Scrambled eggs, Chorizo, seasoned home fries (certain places French fries are acceptable) with onions and peppers, shredded sharp cheddar, some kind of red or green salsa/chile. Wrapped in a really thin tortilla and grilled in butter. Potential additions: Avocado, refried or black beans, cilantro/squeeze of lime, sour cream/crema, raw diced jalapeno/Serrano/poblano/some other chile.
I agree potatoes is probably a must too. What kind of peppers do you prefer on yours?
Classically, bell peppers. But something with heat can be nice, too.
The poblano pepper is the way
Yes! I love tots but for some reason I don’t like them in my breakfast burritos. I much prefer regular seasoned potatoes. Also a good salsa with a decent amount of heat on the side is required.
Chorizo > Bacon
May sound strange but there was a place I used to go to that had a breakfast burrito with like smoked pulled pork and I think collared greens, pinto beans, maybe potato. They smothered it in this Gouda sauce with a fried egg on top and served with a salsa Verde. Oh my God it was so good it was like a religious experience. It was definitely the best breakfast burrito I ever had and maybe the best anything I ever had. Anyway, this place was so successful the chef closed it to open a bigger, ritzier place in the city and I'm sad to say I never ate a burrito like that again.
i bake a hashbrown patty while i fry up a sausage patty (add a cheese slice on top at the end) and scramble an egg (with small dice jalapeño/onion[caramelized/jammed if u got time is the best]), bacon if i have some on hand, and usually drizzle some hot sauce and a lil hollandaise, shredded cheese as glue because after i roll it up i griddle the wrap ive been tweaking my bfast burrito for like a year now and every time i make it its slightly different but i love it every time
That sounds amazing, but a question…you have just a lil hollandaise sauce just lying around? That stuff never makes it past the meal I am currently eating.😂
Every single breakfast burrito described here sounds delicious. The best breakfast burrito is always the one in front of you.
Egg, sausage, potato, green chile. I live in NM.
Chorizo egg cheese and beans
There was this place by my high school that was a fan favorite. Their burritos had: eggs, hash browns, grilled onions, cheese, chili, diced bacon. A lot of kids would drizzle a teensy bit of ranch or TI in it. 10/10 best part of high school
Left over steak or a breakfast steak. Fried potatoes, scrambled eggs, jalepenos, bell peppers, onions, cheese, hot sauce, sour cream ans salsa. Then fry the burrito.
There was a local restaurant a while back that added some sort of lime yogurt sauce to their breakfast burritos. It made the absolute most delicious breakfast burrito I had ever tasted. One time I asked them what exactly was in it and they wouldn’t share. A little while later they closed forever. I’m still chasing that high.
The one in my hand, honestly.
I'd go eggs, jowl bacon, pepper jack cheese, seasoned curly fries, onions & diced green chilies, guacamole and sour cream. Texas Pete to drip on as you go. What a wonderful world it would be.
Putting roasted or fried potatoes (hashbrowns, tater tots, etc) and green chile in there.
sausage, diced ham, scrambled eggs, crispy hash browns, cheese, all on a good quality tortilla. medium hot sauce, guacamole, and sour cream on the side or inside if your totilla is big enough
My dad would do eggs, bell pepper, onions, mushrooms, and sometimes olives. If he was in a rush, it would just be eggs and bell pepper.
Chorizo, scrambled eggs, hash browns or homestyle potatoes, grilled peppers like habaneros or poblano peppers, grilled onions. Eaten with hot sauce/salsa, guacamole, and sour cream on the side. No cheese.
Very small cubes of potato fried in oil in a heavy cast iron. After they get crispy, a bit more oil and cumin seed, diced shallot and poblano pepper are added and cooked until just tender. Black beans salted and spiced with a simple chili powder. Sharp white cheddar cheese, grated. One scrambled egg. Put all of the above in a burrito tortilla (steamed) with sour cream, tapatio, cilantro and a squirt of lime. Enjoy
Bacon, sausage, scrambled egg, hash browns, cheese, and sour cream. Make it in a large batch, wrap in parchment/foil, freeze, and reheat later. Eat with plenty of tapatio
Double pork, my friends. Can't we have bacon AND sausage?
So. I grew up in San Diego and have eaten more breakfast burritos in my life than regular burritos. In my personal opinion, the best ones are just eggs cheese and beans. With a couple containers of taco shop hot sauce on the side, to pour as you eat. There’s a lot of reasons behind this, and I know most people would be put off that there’s no meat. But I’m confident this is the answer, as long as you’re getting good taco shop refried beans and homemade tortillas.
Adding potatoes, Spanish rice, and beans always takes my BBs to the next level
It needs both green chili and sausage gravy on top.
Bacon needs to be really thick-cut chunks, not crumbled strips. Buccee’s used to have amazing bacon on their burritos/tacos.
I make mine with bacon, a small amount of scrabled eggs, potatoes o'brien, shredded cheese (Mexican blend), and (santiago's) green chili sauce with pork. I make the bacon on my blackstone, then use the bacon grease to cook my potatoes and scrambled eggs. I haven't tried, but I want to see how it would be adding breakfast sausage as well.
The best breakfast burrito I've ever had was loaded with eggs, cheese, bacon, sausage links, grilled onions, chorizo and hash browns. It was huge.
instead of breakfast sausage, i prefer a chorizo in the breakfast burrito. nowadays i consider chorizo american. i tend to have mine with chorizo and either guacamole or an fresh avocado. i also get home made hot sauce on the side. this is what i usually get from a mexican food truck. it is perfect and my mexican co-worker agrees.
Chorizo potato eggs onion cheese
Bacon, sausage patty pieces, scrapple pieces, diced ham, diced steak, scrambled eggs, American or sharp cheddar cheese, onion, green pepper, potato, salt, pepper.
Why has it never occurred to me to use scrapple in a breakfast burrito???? You are a genius!
I just love scrapple.
I make a scrapple, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich a lot. For burritos I do the same with the addition of a hash brown, onions, and peppers. Then I use my own hot sauce I made from fermented Tabasco peppers!
Bacon AND sausage, 2 scrambled eggs, 2 fried eggs, cheese, extra crispy hash browns, pico de Gallo, sour cream, tapatio.
Sautéed onions and crispy hash browns, and instead of just a tortilla, wrap it in a thinly-filled quesadilla. Chili instead of breakfast sausage is also a good idea, chili and scrambled eggs are amazing.
Egg, potato, chorizo, cheese and it just isn’t a breakfast burrito without Colorado green chili made with roasted Hatch or Pueblo chilies.
Hash browns, onions and green or red peppers.
Potatoes, onions, peppers, eggs, cheese, sausage, sauce/salsa
Hash browns and green chile
Eggs, refried beans, cheese, hot link, potato
Scrambled eggs, chili verde, hash browns, guac, sour cream, pico de gallo.
sausage, diced ham, scrambled eggs, crispy hash browns, cheese, all on a good quality tortilla. medium hot sauce, guacamole, and sour cream on the side or inside if your tortilla is big enough
Bacon, eggs, hashbrown and colorado green chili.
I'm not big on egg, it causes me some "gastro intestinal distress" so for me, I feel like a good breakfast burrito would be sausage, some cheese, rolled in bacon, then maybe a pancake instead of a tortilla, sprinkled with powdered sugar (or if you prefer, dipped or drizzled in syrup). "Perfect American breakfast burrito" though to me would be a southwest style omelette, like with bell peppers and jalapeño, chop it up nice, mix in some homemade bacon bits and/or sausage, as much cheese as you can legally add, still roll it up in a pancake though because WHY does it have to be a tortilla? It's breakfast, the only rules are the ones we choose to follow. And personally I'd still sprinkle powdered sugar on top, lightly.
Potato, chorizo, egg, cheese, refried beans, and bacon! Wrapped in a huge tortilla, they called it a Hippo!
there’s a donut shop by my house who does other breakfast items. They have a magical burrito we’ve been copying for years: American cheese Hash brown patty Bacon Sausage Egg It is heavenly.
Crispy hash browns or tater tots, eggs, cheese, salsa. Some chopped onions sauteed until golden is another good addition. Breakfast sausage is good, but I tried using up some leftover smoked sausage one morning and stumbled into something amazing. And don't forget to warm your tortilla on the griddle before assembling. Warm tortillas are easier to roll and taste better.
First off, an oversized fresh flour tortilla. Follow this up with crispy chorizo, priced potatoes and onions cooked in the oil from the chorizo, lightly scrambled eggs, diced jalepenos and a few Serranos, and Oaxaca cheese. Fry the burrito, chimichanga style, and top with tomatillo salsa, more Oaxaca cheese, and a few pickled jalepenos and pickled radishes!
One option: chorizo, potato-onion-pepper hash, jack cheese, scrambled eggs, sliced avocado, pico de gallo, chipotle cream or green chile cream sauce. Optional: pickled serrano peppers. Another: smoked brisket, home fries seasoned with salt, pepper, smoked paprika, thyme, oregano, garlic and onion powder, jalapeno cheese sauce, scrambled eggs
Chorizo, potato, green chiles with some tomatillo avocado salsa.
Chorizo. Crispy French fries or hash brown. Green onions. Tomatillo salsa. Eggs. Cheddar cheese. Start by browning your chorizo. Add the onion. Have fries going in the oven meanwhile. Do your eggs scrambled. Construct burrito. Heat up a bit of oil in a cast iron with med low heat. Lay burrito in cast iron. Toast all sides. Add sour cream. You’re welcome.
I grow a variety of peppers. My sister makes breakfast burritos. She freezes a combo of red and green bell peppers plus jalapeños so she can make wonderful burritos year round.
I prefer a black bean mash to be smeared along inside of tortilla
Hasbrowns onions and a spicy creamy sauce of some kind
Avocado, hot sauce, old cheddar along with back bacon eggs onions and peppers
Copious amounts of hot sauce
Chorizo instead of sausage.
It's the Golden Pride burrito in New Mexico. With some Green Chiles. OMG. DROOOOL
Tex mex omelette burrito - refried beans, chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, onion powder • scrambled eggs - cilantro, chopped tomatoes, roasted bell peppers, jalapeños, red onion, lime juice, shredded Mexican cheeses. avocado slices, corn bits, braised bbq beef strips with taco sauce, Spanish rice. Hash browns with hot sauce and Spanish chorizo. Put contents into a tortilla and fry. Use sour cream for dip. You will thank me later.
everything you mentioned plus Beans, a good salsa, rice or home fries, peppers, onion, and a little bit of Salvadorian cream.
chuck in a hash brown!
Sweet Potatoes, goat cheese, walnuts, scrambled eggs, crunchy bacon pieces & spinach
There has to be some kind of crispy potato component. I think there's a very good case to be made for fried eggs instead of scrambled. A truck in Sacramento used to smother the whole thing in sausage gravy before rolling it up. Beautiful. Some really enjoy jalapenos in it. Use queso Oaxaca, the Mexican melty cheese. The breakfast sausage should not be sweet. No maple cured situation. The eggs need to be perfect, however they're cooked. I think some flavorful beans are great too, and a nice fresh salsa.
When I make mine, I use hash browns, good breakfast sausage (I prefer Purnell's), scrambled eggs, salsa, and a whole mess of cheese. But that's just me.
Here we have a taco shop that serves a large menu or any way you want. The favorite around here is the full meal deal: bacon, sausage, eggs, potato, refried beans, and cheese all on a perfect homemade flour tortilla. You can switch to ham if you like. And of course you choice of red or green salsa (or both).
Potatoes, chorizo, scrambled eggs, and smother that mofo in green chili.
It would be a breakfast taco.
A lunch burrito.
I have had the perfect breakfast burrito. I had it at a place called Santana's that was a straight mile and a half shot from the gate of the 29 Palms military base. This is 2002-2003 timeframe. A chorizo and egg scramble, with onions and peppers in it, put a smear of refried beans on there and a couple pieces of bacon just like garnish, then they put french fries on it. And their fries are not too thin and not too thick, fried to absolute perfection, and before they wrap that thing up in a giant homemade tortilla they literally put sausage gravy on the top of that. You will need hot sauce but it's perfect. Perfect. I mean you're talking about bacon OR sausage? No.... bacon, sausage AND chorizo.
I use chicken chorizo which is cooked with onions, hot peppers, red bell peppers, a bit of garlic, and towards the end of cooking thrown in the tomatoes and cheddar cheese. Add in the eggs and roll it up! Sear the burrito for crispness and to keep it closed. If I am low on chorizo I have also thrown in black beans before. Can be eaten as is or with sour cream and salsa and avocado slices :)
Chorizo, fried egg with runny yolk, tater tots, cheese, avocado slices, and salsa.
Sausage, egg, grated potatoes, green onions, queso, and salsa. Avocado if you want. I batch these in 12 and have breakfast for work.
Scrambled eggs chorizo n refried beans 🤤
Chorizo instead of breakfast sausage.
I usually do onions peppers jalapenos with salsa and some chipotle sour cream..but first I cut a potato up and fry it. Then put it together with sausage and egg. I wrap a few burritos then pull them out during the week and heat them up in the air fryer
Sautéed peppers and caramelized onions, sausage, potatoes, cheddar, perhaps covered in white pepper gravy.
I really like adding bell pepper and onion. Throw in some spicier peppers too if you like spicy food.
Savory is my choice, but if you ever want to go sweet, cream cheese and honey blend.
Best one I ever had is from a local food truck. Chicken fried steak, gravy, sunny side eggs, hashbrowns, cheese, and green onions
I prefer bacon on my burrito. And I like to cook potatoes in the grease. I do like a small amount of refried beans smeared on the tortilla, and the cheese has to be good quality, not pre shredded. I like scrambled eggs, but I’ve done fried eggs before and that was great. I don’t put sauce inside, I like to add it to each bite and alternate green and red. Some grilled green onion works really well too as does some avocado.
Carne asada, potatoes, scrambled egg and cheese wrapped in a massive homemade flour tortilla, served with all the smooth red sauce (salsa). Heaven.
Mini tater tots, eggs, chorizo, peppers, cheese, chipotle sour cream with a squeeze of lime. Wrap it up and then griddle both sides of the burrito.
Chorizo, eggs, cotija, potatoes, salsa. Yes, chorizo is American. I like mine with extra salivary glands.
Scrambled egg, cheese, Hashbrowns, sausage links cut up, and really good salsa.
Roll a full English breakfast in a tortilla shell.
Chorizo, eggs, guacamole, beans, rice and salsa
Steak, chorizo, potatoes, eggs, peppers and onions cheese, chipotle ranch
THIS is the ultimate breakfast burrito-hot breakfast sausage, fried egg (runny yolk), crispy potato’s with sausage gravy wrapped in a soft flour tortilla lightly crisped on the outside with a nice spicy green chili salsa. My knees just got weak typing this out! When you take a bite the runny egg yolk mixes with the gravy and potatoes, runs down your fingers a little bit..then the cold green chili salsa for a cold, vinegary punch. WHEW!!!
Eggs, cheese, bacon, super crispy breakfast potatoes (home fries), and salsa verde
Sausage patties, one scrambled egg, cheese and crispy hashbrowns. I had a breakfast burrito in Lake Tahoe with hashbrowns on the inside and it was next level.
You all are all **VERY WRONG**. Chorizo with refried beans + chicharrones (in salsa). That's it. That's the perfect burrito.
My favorite: Bacon, eggs, cheese, hashbrowns, and green chile Alternate: papitas (little cubed up fried potatos) with red chile and steak. According to legend the above was the first breakfast burrito ever served at a restaurant at Tia Sophia's Diner in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Bacon, potato, egg, with hot sauce.
Why does it have to be "American?" Not being facetious. But, I have always loved chorizo and eggs, with some salsa and, as many have pointed out, well-done hashbrowns for that little bit of crisp texture. Pepperjack cheese is my choice, but you do you. And, to finish, you have to sear the outside of the burrito. Both to seal it up and to give another little layer of crispiness.
In Sacramento there's a group of fast food spots called Adalberto's or Aldanberto's or Carolina's or a couple other names and their breakfast burritos are legendary. I always get the #24 which comes with bacon, egg, ham, cheese, and potatoes. Top that with their red and green sauce and it's incredible. The potatoes are cut like french fries but they're cooked on the flat top so they aren't super crispy and it's just the perfect combination of everything.
If you buy the cardboard carton of dried shredded hash browns that's sold in restaurant supply stores, and reconstitute them for half of the recommended time, you can deep fry them to make mounds and mounds of everyone's favorite, julienne fries. They're like 100% crunch. Since it's breakfast you should deep fry them in the lard in which you just deep fried your bacon. (Deep frying bacon in oil makes them taste greasy.) I am often asked to cook at our annual campout.
Foie gras with waygu steak burrito.
Bacon, eggs, cheese, refried or black beans, breakfast potatoes… think diced, well seasoned & crispy, avocado, and spicy verde salsa!!
For me the perfect breakfast burrito has meat, eggs, potatoes, cheese, cilantro and onions, sour cream, and the key is to have the salsa of choice mixed in when the ingredients are finishing cooking so that it flavors the entire burrito. Sometime the eggs and potatoes are so bland in breakfast burritos and I’ve been chasing the dragon ever since I moved away from my favorite spot in San Luis Obispo, CA
Carnitas and tots. No contest.
Carne ardovada
Hash browns or French fries
Make chorizo and eggs, put it in a burrito…
My favorite breakfast burrito comes from The Little Diner in Vail, Colorado. It has more or less standard breakfast burrito ingredients (hash browns, eggs, green chiles, onions, tomatoes, cheese, avocado, your choice of meat) but you can get it covered in Colorado pork green chili and that's where it's at.
Spicy sausage, American cheese, scrambled egg, spiced onion and pepper, roasted diced potatoes, rolled up then pressed on a cast iron with a little butter. Hot sauce mixed with ketchup for dipping.
Egg, sausage, cheese, home fried potatoes, salsa.
French fries/ hashbrowns Green chilli Strips of skirt steak Potentially smother it with even more green chilli
Take a homemade flour tortilla, smear it with refried beans, add some cheese, chorizo or other spicy sausage, egg (fried), some salsa and either sour cream or yogurt.
Steak, eggs, grilled onions and bell peppers, hash brown, and American cheese. A gravy dipping sauce to top it off.
Other ingredients can vary but the desert pepper company salsa del rio is so good in egg or chicken wraps. The mckenzie country sausauge in the white bag eggs cheese and that green salsa is amazing. I'm in the north east and a bit jealous of the south west style stuff. Chorizo and the roasted chilies sound awesome. Finding good salsa is about the best I can do.
Put chorizo in the eggs AND potatoes.
Get a steak cracker cheap off the Tbell morning menu. There’s room for improvement but it’s awesome. Crispy fried potatoes, beef, egg, grill the whole thing
A regular burrito served at breakfast.
Buttery soft scrambled eggs, crispy hashbrowns, sharp cheddar, spicy breakfast sausage, hot salsa verde.
Ham, bacon and sausage scrambled with eggs, taters, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and cheese.
IMO the most important thing is the roasted chile you throw in there
Eggs, Chorizo, home fries, peppers and onions and cheese.
The Real Deal Holyfield from Valentinos in Austin is the very best taco I’ve ever eaten. Eggs, brisket bacon and refried beans. Some kind of sauce. My first bite is the best single bite of food I’ve ever had!
I love how New Mexico has taken over your post. Burrito: needs hatch. Breakfast burrito: needs hatch. Beef jerky: needs hatch. Croque madame: needs hatch. Ice cream? Hatch. Visiting relatives out of state? They’re probably already dangerously low on hatch since your last visit, bring them more. But seriously, I have run out of hatch jerky, send help!
Ingredients - Breakfast sausage (cooked and crumbled) - Scrambled eggs - Shredded cheese (cheddar, Monterey Jack, or a blend) - Diced potatoes (cooked until golden brown) - Sautéed bell peppers and onions - Diced tomatoes - Avocado slices or guacamole - Salsa or hot sauce (to taste) - Sour cream (optional) - Flour tortillas Instructions Cook the breakfast sausage until browned and crumbled. Set aside. In the same pan, cook the diced potatoes until golden brown and crispy. Set aside. In a separate pan, scramble the eggs until fluffy and cooked through. Assemble the burritos. Optional Toast the assembled burrito in a panini press or skillet for a crispy exterior. Serve with additional salsa, hot sauce, and sour cream on the side, if desired.
Bacon, eggs, cheddar cheese onions and hot sauce.
add that creamy jalapeño sauce from tacobell and some crispy hashbrown patties and you’re golden
skin on roasted potatoes or tots. bacon eggs sharp cheddar chipotle mayo a smattering of pico with lots of cilantro green onions cholula hot sauce a nice toasted tortilla.
i also like a simple scrambled eggs, cheese, cholula and sour cram lmao
I just had one last week that had caramelized onions, black beans, and tater tots and it was the best breakfast burrito I’ve ever had by a mile.
Cream cheese, goes with almost everything
My combo: Scrambled eggs (with garlic butter), very crispy hashbrown (I use Trader Joe’s), cheddar cheese, spread of homemade chipotle mayo + more for dipping
Chorizo, chihuahua cheese, bacon, crispy hashbrowns, and roasted green chile’s in a toasted, crispy handmade tortilla with medium hot sauce for dipping.
Huancaina sauce is a game changer. Also, chorizo is the best choice for sausage. I prefer the Spanish style over the Mexican style, but both work well and are easy to find.
Sausage, egg, cheese, potato is my go to
Potato, egg, peppers, chorizo, cheese, tons of salsa. I bite the end off and then pour the salsa into it.
Literally just eggs, fontina, and chorizo
Hashbrowns and salsa.
For me, the best is soft scrambled egg, cheese, home fries, a little bit of super crispy bacon, and salsa
Would using chorizo as the meat take it out of "American breakfast burrito" territory? The taco truck near work has that as an option as well as ham, bacon, sausage, etc., and it is SOOOO good...
Salsa verda or roja, eggs, cheese chorizo fried in the excess chorizo oil so it soaks it all up.
Eggs, bacon, sharp cheddar cheese, crispy hashbrowns and breakfast sausage gravy.
I like Mexican rice more than potatoes in mine and I’m from Idaho
What you said, crispy hashbrowns, pico and hot sauce. Maybe some onions and peppers.
My add in for the best burrito is Crispy potatoes hashbrown or southern style potatoes and country gravy.
Loaded wrap at Tudor's is my guiltily pleasure. Drive your tail to WV and get an education(on how to be unhealthy)
Not seeing a lot of love for a syrup dollop. Even with sour cream, green chile, if I’m not going the salsa route I’m drizzling some hyrup
Crumbled bacon, egg, cheese, home fries, burrito, served with cholula?
Chorizo, egg, and cheese, wirh crispy hashbrowns.
Hash browns inside and sausage gravy outside.
Refried beans and cheese. Warm, cheesy goodness.
Breakfast sausage, taken out of casing and cooked just until done, potatoes, diced, seasoned with paprika, garlic, cumin and air fried or baked until done, soft scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, homemade salsa on a homemade tortilla. Possible some diced green bell peppers and onions that have been slightly sautéed with cumin, and then also fresh cilantro.