• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Trending: Healthy New Year
  • About
  • Shop
  • Work with Me
  • Contact

Cooking for Keeps

  • All Recipes
  • Course
    • Appetizers
    • Bread
    • Breakfast
    • Casseroles
    • Cocktails
    • Dips
    • Main Course
    • Pasta
    • Salads
    • Sandwiches
    • Sauces
    • Side Dishes
    • Soups & Stews
    • Stir Fries
    • Sweets
  • Protein
    • Beef/Lamb
    • Chicken/Poultry
    • Pork
    • Seafood
    • Vegetarian
  • Method
    • Casseroles
    • Slow-Cooker
    • Grilling
    • Minimal Ingredients
    • Quick
    • Air Fryer/Instant Pot
    • Oven
    • No cook
    • Stovetop
    • Kid Friendly
    • Dinner Party Worthy
    • One Pan
Home Breakfast
Medium medium

Chorizo and Egg Breakfast Burritos with Pumpkin Goat Cheese Cream Sauce

By: Nicole 8 Comments
Posted: 10/25/13 Updated: 09/13/15

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy.

Chorizo and Egg Breakfast Burritos with Pumpkin Goat CHeese Cream Sauce 2

Have you thought about what you’re having for breakfast tomorrow? Do you plan breakfast ahead of time or are you just a fly by the seat of your pants breakfast person? I’m both. Sometimes I’ll plan an extravagant breakfast and some mornings I’ll look in the fridge and come up with something on the fly. Both work. Except for when you look in the fridge and there are no eggs, no bread, no milk and no bacon or sausage – those days you go out to breakfast – I like those days.

This particular breakfast was kind of a mix between the two, since I planned it, but I used what I already had in the pantry and fridge – besides the tortillas, those were snatched up at a last minute grocery run after dinner Friday night. (Yes, this was from last weekend)

The combination of all these ingredients is kind of bizarre, and you wouldn’t think it all works together – but it does. It really does. Spicy chorizo (my favorite breakfast meat), eggs and peppers are scrambled together and stuffed burrito style into tortillas, baked then smothered in a creamy, slightly spicy pumpkin goat cheese sauce. The pureed pumpkin gives the sauce a slight sweetness that cuts through the spiciness of the chorizo and cayenne pepper, but doesn’t add an overly aggressive pumpkin flavor, which I really love.

I lightened the dish up by using half whole eggs and half egg whites, low-fat cheddar cheese, whole-wheat tortillas and a milk based cream sauce instead of heavy cream, but each ingredient could easily be swapped out with its less healthy counterpart. You could also easily use typical breakfast sausage or turkey sausage in replace of the chorizo if that’s what you have on hand.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Chorizo and Egg Breakfast Burritos with Pumpkin Goat Cheese Cream Sauce

5.0 from 1 reviews
Chorizo and Egg Breakfast Burritos with Pumpkin Goat Cheese Cream Sauce
 
Print
Author: Nicole ~ Cooking for Keeps
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 4 eggs + 4 egg whites
  • 5 ounces chorizo
  • ½ onion, sliced thinly
  • 1 green pepper, sliced thin
  • 1 red pepper, sliced thin
  • 1 cup + 4 tablespoons milk (1 cup of milk should be hot)
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, divided
  • 4 whole-wheat tortillas
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 2 ounces goat cheese
  • ¼ cup pumpkin puree
  • ½ + ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • Pinch of cayenne pepper
  • Pinch of sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large sauté pan, heat butter over a medium heat. Saute onions and peppers until cooked through. While the peppers are cooking whisk eggs and 4 tablespoons milk and ½ teaspoon salt in a bowl. Once the peppers are cooked through, reduce the heat to a medium low and add eggs. Slowly cook eggs, and stir constantly. Once the eggs are soft to the touch and still slightly moist, turn the heat off.
  2. Divide the filling between the four tortillas, then top each with ¼ cup of cheese. Roll up burrito style.
  3. Place on a baking sheet and bake for about 15 minutes, until crisp and cheese is melted.
  4. While the burritos are cooking, make the sauce: In a small sauce pan, melt butter over a medium heat. Whisk in flour, cook one minute. Slowly whisk in hot milk and remaining salt, pinch of cayenne and pinch of sugar. Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer until thickened, about two minutes. Whisk in goat cheese and pumpkin. Season to taste with salt, pepper and cayenne. If sauce is too thick add a little bit more milk.
  5. Serve burritos with sauce, avocados and cilantro.
3.2.1255

Chorizo and Egg Breakfast Burritos with Pumpkin Goat Cheese Cream Sauce PS3

Meet Nicole

Welcome! My lifelong passion for delicious food and cooking has evolved over time into an equal love of showing you an elevated meal can be easy, approachable and most importantly, tasty. Dive in and find something perfect for you and your family!

Read more...

You May Also Like...

  • Goat Cheese Avocado Dip
  • Peppadew Pepper, Goat Cheese and Bacon Grilled Cheese
  • Everything Bagel Goat Cheese Log 4
    Everything Bagel Goat Cheese

Never miss a recipe!

Loading

Reader Interactions

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

Have a question? Submit your question or comment below.

Recipe Rating




Rate this recipe:  

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  1. Alaina @ Fabtastic Eats says

    Posted on 10/25/13 at 3:56 pm

    I love EVERYTHING about this. Chorizo is my favorite breakfast meat too! And that pumpkin cheese sauce..oh my gawwwwd. I love, love, LOVE it! Making this asap!

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 10/26/13 at 2:55 pm

      All breakfasts should include chorizo!!! Thanks Alaina!!

      Reply
  2. [email protected] says

    Posted on 10/31/13 at 11:54 am

    This looks so amazing in every way possible! I love an egg burrito with spicy chorizo, but that pumpkin cream completely takes this over the top!

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 10/31/13 at 1:52 pm

      Thanks Christin!!! Cream sauce makes everything better, right?! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Jen Bray says

    Posted on 4/13/20 at 3:33 pm

    I’m digging up an old recipe here but let me tell you, this was absolutely delish! Didn’t know exactly where the chorizo came in as the recipe didn’t mention the chorizo after the ingredients so just threw it in with the veggies after they cooked for a bit. Can’t wait to eat the leftovers!

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 4/20/20 at 9:23 pm

      So glad to hear that!

      Reply

Primary Sidebar

hey

Meet Nicole

Welcome! My lifelong passion for delicious food and cooking has evolved into an equal love of showing you easy elevated meals can be approachable and most importantly, tasty.

Read More

Browse by Difficulty

Easy easy Medium medium Advanced hard

Reader Favorites

Best Chicken Enchilada

Best Chicken Enchilada Recipe

Italian Stromboli

Italian Stromboli (5 Ingredients!)

French Onion Chicken Skillet

French Onion Chicken Skillet

One Pot Mexican Past

One Pot Turkey Mexican Pasta

Subscribe to latest recipe updates

Loading

Trending

Coconut Curry Meatballs

Coconut Curry Meatballs

Bulgogi Beef Lettuce Wraps

Bulgogi Beef Lettuce Wraps

Creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup

Creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup

Spinach and Ground Beef Stuffed Shells

Stuffed Pasta Shells with Ground Beef and Spinach

meet nicole

Cooking for Keeps Cooking for Keeps
I'm Nicole. A born and bred food lover, cook since age seven and girl behind all the recipes and photographs you see here. Welcome!

subscribe

bloglovin feedly

popular posts

[tptn_list]

browse recipe by difficulty

easy

medium

hard

Instagram

[instagram-feed]
follow Nicole

Healthy Eats

Baked-Sweet-Potato-Chips-with-Blue-Cheese-Sauce-and-Bacon-5

Easy

Pan-Roasted Salmon with Garlicky Kale and Citrus Vinaigrette
Baked-Sweet-Potato-Chips-with-Blue-Cheese-Sauce-and-Bacon-5

Medium

Baked Sweet Potato Chips with Blue Cheese Sauce, Bacon and Green Onion
Spicy Pumpkin and Butternut Ramen PS2

Medium

Spicy Thai-Style Pumpkin and Butternut Ramen

Never miss a recipe!

Loading

By Course

Appetizers

Breakfast

Quick and Easy

Main Course

Soups

Salads

Side Dishes

Sweets

Explore

About Nicole

Shop Favorites

Press

Work With Me

Privacy Policy

Accessibility

Contact

© 2023 Cooking for Keeps
Site Credits Designed by Melissa Rose Design Developed by Once Coupled
Back to Top