Turkey Bacon Egg Cups
These turkey bacon egg muffin cups are an ideal make-ahead breakfast possibility for busy college mornings. You possibly can have a wholesome, protein-based breakfast on the desk in 5 minutes with minimal prep, and so they’re dairy free and gluten-free. Oh, and also you’ll love the taste.
We’re undoubtedly again into busy college morning mode round right here. Allow us to rejoice the truth that we’ve made it per week with out having to examine in late on the workplace. Let’s see how lengthy this lasts. One thing that helps a ton: prepping as a lot as I can upfront. Once I make dinner at evening, I additionally take that point to pack lunches and snacks for the next day. Earlier than we go to mattress, I set out garments (all the way down to the socks and hair bows they’ll put on), water bottles, and backpacks, and ensure any paperwork or homework is in backpacks able to go. For breakfast, issues are as fast as attainable round right here. We do loads of immediate or baked oatmeal, omelets, breakfast cookies, pancakes or waffles that I make over the weekend and freeze in an hermetic container or freezer baggie for straightforward storage, and hard-boiled eggs – something that cuts down on prep time.
I needed to modify up our egg recreation a bit, and as a substitute of creating the same old casserole, I assumed I’d do some egg muffins utilizing a standard muffin tin. They’re just a little “cuter” than a sq. reduce out of a casserole dish (and let’s be actual, children usually tend to eat meals if it’s a little bit of a novelty or one thing cute/completely different) and the very best half is that you may batch these and freeze them to simply reheat all through the week. Any vitamin for the children is a win.
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Simply sauté the veggies and turkey bacon, combine up the eggs (entire eggs or egg whites), mix, scoop, bake, completed.
If something, you might want to make these only for this aroma proper right here. There’s one thing fairly magical about garlic, turkey bacon, and onion.
Right here’s the recipe should you’d like to provide them a strive! Be happy to customise with any veggies you want corresponding to mushrooms or a crimson bell pepper. My veggie associates might simply exchange the turkey bacon with some Past Meat sausage and they’d be bomb dot com. 
Turkey Bacon Egg Cups (gluten-free, dairy free)
These turkey bacon egg muffins are an ideal make-ahead breakfast possibility for busy college mornings. You possibly can have a wholesome breakfast on the desk in 10 minutes whole time, and so they’re dairy free and gluten-free.
1/2 candy onion, diced
3 cloves of garlic, minced
6 slices of turkey bacon (or one Past Meat sausage hyperlink)
2 cup kale of spinach (or 1 cup chopped, cooked broccoli)
Pinch of nutmeg
6 eggs
3 oz shredded cheddar cheese (I used almond cheese from Dealer Joe’s)
1/4 cup almond milk
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons flour (I used gluten-free baking mix)
Salt and black pepper to style
Preheat the oven to 350 and spray an ordinary muffin pan generously with nonstick cooking spray.
In a big pan with just a little olive oil, warmth the onion, garlic, and turkey bacon till aromatic and the bacon (or sausage) is cooked. Wilt within the kale and season properly with salt and pepper. Put aside.
In a mixing bowl, mix the eggs, nutmeg, cheese, almond milk, salt, baking powder, and flour. Whisk properly, after which stir within the cheese and season with just a little salt.
Add the turkey bacon combination to the egg combination and stir to mix.
Utilizing an ice cream scoop, divide evenly into the 12 muffin pan spots.
Bake for about 20 minutes, till set and barely golden.
Permit to chill fully earlier than freezing. To reheat from frozen, microwave for 30-40 seconds. Take pleasure in your egg breakfast cups!
Word: I used an ice cream scoop to pour into the muffin pan and it made issues approach simpler. You should utilize muffin liners, however I discover that egg muffins stick extra to those and are a ache to take away should you freeze them.
Inform me, associates: what’s your favourite breakfast for busy mornings?
xo
Gina
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