Vegetarian Breakfast Burritos for the Freezer

Name: Vegetarian Breakfast Burritos
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1 can Beans in Sauce (Goya in the red can ); 6 Eggs; 2 cups Cheese (shredded); 1 cup White Rice (cooked ); 12 Flour Tortillas

Nov 4, 2013 · 54 Comments

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These easy-to-make Vegetarian Breakfast Burritos are delicious, filling, and great for meal prepping. Eliminate the stress of figuring out breakfasts and grab one of these to take with you to work!

closeup of the beans and the scrambled eggs with text that reads vegetarian breakfast burritos — Great Meal Prep Ideas to Make Vegetarian Breakfast Burritos!

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1 🌯 Ingredients

2 🍽️ Instructions

3 📌 Items to Note

4 Vegetarian Breakfast Burritos

This recipe for vegetarian breakfast burritos is so easy to make! Even without meat, this recipe is very hearty. The burritos are on the smaller side but oh-so-filling, especially when you down it with a nice cup of morning coffee. They’re cheesy and delicious and taste authentically Hispanic.

Typically, when I freezer cook I make extremely large quantities to last us a while. But since we now have a smaller freezer, I’ve had to make my freezer cooking batches a little smaller.

This recipe makes 12 breakfast burritos. This is fine for the two of us. It’s about two weeks worth of breakfasts and I also had some ready-made pancakes in the freezer. If you have a larger household just double or triple the recipe. It’s still cheap and delicious.

🌯 Ingredients

Beans in Sauce – In this case, the brand matters. I used Goya as those are the most authentic. If you just get the can of beans without the sauce, the burritos will be too dry. The beans in sauce makes all the difference!

It gives a nice Spanish flavor to every part of the burrito and eliminates the need for additional seasonings aside from salt and pepper. I’m partial to the Goya brand (no, I’m not being paid to say this) because it’s the brand I grew up eating. Look for the red can, not the blue. Those are the ones with sauce.

Update: A reader brought to my attention that the particular can of beans I recommend has ham flavoring. I didn’t notice this! If you are unable to find another variety without ham flavoring, simply add a small amount of tomato sauce to the pinto beans and add a few seasonings to make your own version. Another idea is to use salsa. Whatever you use, just make sure it’s saucy, otherwise your burritos will be dry.

Rice – Use plain old white rice. You’ll want to have these cooked ahead of time. I will sometimes make it the night before and refrigerate it until I am ready to put these together.

Flour Tortillas – We have a local hispanic store where I can pick up freshly made ones, but I used the prepackaged version for this recipe in case you are in an area where you can’t find fresh ones as easily.

All of the ingredients for the breakfast burritos laid out on the counter — Simple Ingredients for a Delicious Meal Prep Breakfast!

🍽️ Instructions

Step One: Measure 1/2 cup of white rice and cook as usual. Everyone has their own way of cooking white rice. I used the stove top here, but recently have started using the Instant Pot. It all works, so use what you have.

Step Two: Scramble the eggs. Season as you please – I added milk, salt and pepper. Scoop them into a bowl temporarily.

Step Three: Pour the can of beans into pan and cook until heated through. It should only take three or four minutes.

Step Four: Add the cooked scrambled eggs and rice into the beans and mix thoroughly until combined. Set aside for about twenty minutes to let it cool down.

three photos showing scrambling the eggs, heating the beans and then mixing them together to serve as the filling for the breakfast burrito — Scramble the Eggs, Heat the Beans and Mix Them Together!

Step Five: Start forming your burritos. Add a small amount of the mixture into the center, sprinkle cheese on top, and then fold up burrito style.

Step Six: Pack burritos individually in aluminum foil and then pack them into freezer safe bags.

three photos showing filling the burritos, rolling them and then wrapping in foil for the freezer — Fill the Burritos, Fold Them Tight, and Wrap in Foil

📌 Items to Note

To reheat, unwrap one burrito and place it on a small plate. Microwave for 90 seconds, turning over every 30 seconds.

This is a great recipe for mix-and-match meal prepping. I have been known to add a few leftovers from the previous night’s dinner into these burritos. I included some leftover sautéed veggies last week, and I got a great deal on shrimp, so they may end up in next week’s burritos!

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Vegetarian Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls – These are great for meal prepping and are fun to mix up with these burritos. I hate to eat the same thing for breakfast day in and day out, so these give me some healthy variety.

Healthy Oatmeal Flour Waffles – Even on the days when you feel like eating something different, you can still go healthy. I love these oatmeal flour waffles. They give me a little bit of sweet and I know I am still eating healthy.

I hope you enjoy this recipe for vegetarian breakfast burritos. They are perfectly freezer friendly, so they speed up my mornings quite a bit and also save a considerable amount of money over store-bought breakfast burritos, and they taste a ton better!

wrapped breakfast burritos on foil and getting ready for the freezer

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