Egg Sausage Muffins Low Carb Easy Budget
"My husband was looking for an easy high protein breakfast, so I came up with these.......I make a batch and freeze them and he puts a couple in the microwave on his way out the door in the morning."
photo by hannahsmommma
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
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12 muffins
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 8 eggs
- 1⁄2 lb sausage or 1/2 lb hamburger meat
- 1 cup cheddar cheese
- salt and pepper
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optional
- bell pepper, mushrooms, onions, spinach
directions
- Brown and drain meat. Beat eggs in bowl. Add meat, cheese, salt, pepper, and optional ingredients. Mix. Pour into greased full size muffin pan 2/3 full. Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Use toothpick to check for doneness.
Questions & Replies
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How long do these freeze for?
Reviews
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My pet peeve is recipes that are not proportioned correctly for the pan size. This recipe as written above with 8 eggs did NOT make 12 muffins. I had to quickly add 2 more eggs when I could see that it would not be enough mix for 12. Also, I filled each cup with approximately 1 Tbsp sausage before adding a pinch of lightly sauteed onion tops and parsley. Then I poured a scant 1/4 cup of egg and cheese mixture to the cups. This properly filled the 12 muffin cups to about the 2/3 full level. They puffed up well but stayed within the cups. -- copyright to the author, Janet S, 2018 -
I am on Atkins induction so I made a batch of these for a good no-carb breakfast. One batch has lasted me a whole week! I top them off with Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce and YUM! ?? Easy and good!
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I make these with 12 eggs and a whole pound of sausage, so makes about 18. A favorite. So easy to take and go! -
This was really good. I am doing low carbs and this is perfect for me as Inusually don’t do breakfast.
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Tweaks
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I’ve been looking for low carb & high protein make-ahead breakfasts, and these are great. I varied from the original recipe somewhat (since this is definitely one of those recipes great to use up stuff already in your fridge). Ultimately I doubled the cheese to 2 cups, comprised of several types of cheddar and an Italian cheese blend, used two kinds of precooked sausage (4 diced up Applegate chicken & apple sausage patties and 2/3 a bag of Jimmy Dean turkey sausage crumbles), added a whole diced tomato, two diced sweet red mini bell peppers and about 2/3 of a small diced onion (sautéed in a few tablespoons of almond oil) and added about a half cup of almond milk, salt, black pepper, crushed red pepper, and a bit of rubbed sage to my whisked eggs before incorporating everything. My muffin cups were more like 3/4 of the way full, so I cooked an extra few minutes. The end ratio per quiche was approximately 190 calories, 3 carbs, and 15 grams of protein. Yum!
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Jimmy Dean Sage breakfast sausage definitely adds a nice lvl of flavor!
