I had friends over for a long weekend. I mapped out the meals and snacks I wanted to make for them with military precision. These Breakfast Enchiladas were the only impromptu thing I made. And this was their favourite meal.
I’m 30-something years old and I still have sleepovers with my girlfriends. Is that abnormal? I’m not even talking about weekends away. I’m talking about actual sleepovers – bring your pillow and PJ’s, lots of wine, rag mags (gossip magazines) and in this particular case, one of my friends brought hair dye with her so we could do her roots for her. (It was supposed to be blonde. It came out orange. Oops!)
I am banned from posting the many hilarious photos I have from the weekend. I am banned from mentioning them by name and I am banned from sharing with you all the ridiculous stories and incidents that had us rolling around in stitches, eyes watering from laughing so hard.
Honestly, what kind of friends are these if I can’t even get stories my blog when I feed them and give them a warm bed to sleep in? 😉
When I have guests staying, I am a bit of a control freak. I map out the entire menu for the whole weekend. I like to get ahead and make what I can in advance so I look really poised and can whip up dishes on a whim with seemingly little effort. I like to try to impress them by making my own sourdough and airily say I never buy bread anymore.
You know. Think Martha Stewart. The hostess with the mostess. I can’t help it. It started in my early twenties when I started hosting dinner parties and it’s just snowballed from there. I am getting worse with age.
So I was completely organised with a list of things I could make on request (I’ve moved on from set menus, I now give guests a menu to choose from). As things always go, I wasn’t completely happy with anything that I made for them. Except these Breakfast Enchiladas. The only impromptu thing I made.
My friends loved them. At the end of the weekend, they declared it to be their favourite food from the whole weekend. And they insisted that I must share it on my blog.
So here it is. The Breakfast Enchiladas. – Nagi x
PS If you enjoy this, try the Italian version one day -> Italian Sausage Taquitos
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Breakfast Enchiladas
Ingredients
Filling
- 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 1 small onion (red, brown, white, yellow), diced
- 1 cup red capsicum (bell peppers), roughly diced
- 400 g / 14 oz crushed tinned tomato
- 400 g / 14 oz canned black beans or red kidney beans , drained
- 2 tsp paprika powder
- 2 tsp cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Black pepper
Bacon and Eggs
- 8 oz / 250 g bacon , diced
- 5 large eggs (or 6 normal eggs), lightly whisked
Enchiladas
- 6 soft tortillas (standard size around 20cm/8" in diameter)
- 1/2 cup cheese
Garnishes (optional)
- Diced avocado
- Sour cream
- Coriander/cilantro
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add garlic and onion and saute until the onion is translucent.
- Add the capsicum and cook for another 1 minute.
- Add remaining Filling ingredients. Stir then turn the heat down to medium and let it cook for 5 minutes or so until thickened. Transfer to a bowl and let it cool slightly.
- Wipe the pan clean and return to high heat. Add bacon and cook until light golden brown. Drain fat if there is excess. Turn heat down to medium Add the eggs and gently stir and fold them into the bacon mixture until the eggs almost set but are still watery.
- Remove pan from heat. The eggs will continue cooking in the residual heat.
- Lay the tortillas on a work surface. Divide the Filling mixture between them, then top with Bacon and Egg mixture. Sprinkle with cheese then roll the Enchiladas up.
- Place in a baking dish (or tray) and bake for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and you can see that the cheese has melted.
- Serve with desired garnished. I highly recommend sour cream and avocado.
Recipe Notes:
I make something like this for my husband, but this is much healthier, thank you. I sometimes us chorizo instead of bacon, replace bell peppers for pablano peppers, use Romo tomatoes, then roll up like a burrito, fry them and put chili verde on top. He is having your recipe tomorrow morning
Oooh!!! Chili verde! Now THAT is a great topping!! Love to know what your hubby thinks of this! It’s really loaded with flavour so I hope he enjoys it!! 🙂
Yes, salsa verde is a great topping, too. I’m trying to find yummy recipes like this, and make them “low sodium” for my mom, who has been put on a low-sodium diet. Invented a great green sauce last week that fits the bill! And made some butternut/acorn squash soup, as well. The main thing seems to be using fresh ingredients, but it takes a lot longer to make stuff, so I’m experimenting now, to make bigger batches of stuff later, when she can return home. I’ll try making this as just a scramble (no tortillas), using canned no-salt-added tomatoes and beans in the filling mixture. Obviously she won’t be able to have the bacon, either, but a very small amount of chorizo goes a long way for flavor …. I’ve been making various no-salt spice mixes, too, for different recipes. Will use my “Mexican spice mix” in this, and add some Bragg’s nutritional yeast. Pretty much have to stick with part-skim ricotta and Swiss cheese with her now. Poor gal! Will let you know how it goes. The filling mixture, that can be frozen, especially piqued my interest, since I make breakfast for my hubby every morning, too. Will freeze in one-serving portions and go from there. Thank you for posting!!!
No worries!! 🙂 For most of my recipes, just reducing the specified amount of salt and/or using low sodium alternatives for salty ingredients like soy sauce and chicken broth will go a long way to help! Also, turkey bacon is lower sodium OR my other trick is to use low sodium ham. 🙂
I’m loudly laughing at the orange hair incident. Poor girl! Next time she should just take you for the great cook you are and not ask you for any hairstyling help! LOL I bet those delicious enchiladas made her feel better though!
HA! SO true!! OMG you should have seen it….so orange….so so orange…..(we kept telling her it was “honey” blonde! Te he!!)
Nagi – so…all this…”rolling around in stitches, eyes watering from laughing so hard” with your friends is wonderful and all but seeing you fed them THIS and they wouldn’t let you share any pictures of that orange hair and what not just goes to show – girrrrl – you need new friends!
🙂
I am so kidding! Seriously – am totally kidding!
My daughter LOVES breakfast burritos and I gotta make these for her soon! By the way, I would let you dye my hair purple and let you post pictures if you fed me…just saying…
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Have a wonderful weekend!
I KNOW right?? Well I’ll tell you….some of the photos I got were SO embarrassing, I kind of can’t blame them!!
Oooh, breakfast burritos…have you shared any on your blog? Popping over to have a look! I have tortillas left over and could so do burritos for brekki! 🙂
Nothing wrong with sleepovers at your age. They’re awesome, nothing better than a bunch of girls getting together, drinking, watching chick flicks and giggling like crazy. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s recommended by doctors. 🙂 Love the breakfast enchiladas, totally my kind of breakfast! 🙂
Ha!! “Just what the doctor ordered” is a saying made for girlie sleepovers, I think!! N x
Hi Nagi! WOW do these look good! I love anything wrapped in a tortilla! As for your girl parties, I am twice your age and when my husband goes to MI on business every other month, my girlfriend comes over and stays and we have a blast!
Awww!! I LOVE hearing that!! I hope that I’m still having sleepovers for the rest of my life!! Girlfriends are the BEST!! I can just image what you and your friend get up to when your hubby is away…. 😉
Hi Nagi! It involves a lot of cold beer and “junk” food and talking! With no men! 🙂
First of all… I’m 35 and I still have sleep overs – complete with lots of wine and a late night cooking/dance party in the kitchen 😉 Secondly, I have been sitting in a customer waiting lounge for 2 1/2 hours, waiting for my car to be fixed, no breakfast and I’m starving! This is torture! I knew that if I looked on your site I’d be sent into the throws of hunger pangs – why did I look!? I must be some kind of masochist! Thanks for making me look like a drooling crazy person in front of all of these people 😉
2 1/2 hours? Unacceptable! Tell them to give you a lift home and deliver the car to you when it’s ready!! 😉
Your sleepover guests were totally spoilt with this treat! And I love the idea of adult sleepovers, I am in my mid 20s and we still have them!
They get BETTER with age! So don’t stop!! 🙂