These turkey bacon egg muffin cups are an ideal make-ahead breakfast possibility for busy faculty mornings. You’ll be able to 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 positively again into busy faculty morning mode round right here. Allow us to rejoice the truth that we’ve made it every week with out having to test 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 prematurely. Once I make dinner at night time, 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 numerous instantaneous 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 wished to change up our egg sport a bit, and as a substitute of creating the standard casserole, I assumed I’d do some egg muffins utilizing a standard muffin tin. They’re slightly “cuter” than a sq. reduce out of a casserole dish (and let’s be actual, youngsters usually tend to eat meals if it’s a little bit of a novelty or one thing cute/totally different) and one of the best half is you can batch these and freeze them to simply reheat all through the week. Any diet 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, accomplished.
If something, it’s good 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 if you happen to’d like to offer them a strive! Be happy to customise with any veggies you want akin to mushrooms or a purple bell pepper. My veggie buddies might simply change 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 faculty mornings. You’ll be able to 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 a regular muffin pan generously with nonstick cooking spray.
In a big pan with slightly olive oil, warmth the onion, garlic, and turkey bacon till aromatic and the bacon (or sausage) is cooked. Wilt within the kale and season effectively with salt and pepper. Put aside.
In a mixing bowl, mix the eggs, nutmeg, cheese, almond milk, salt, baking powder, and flour. Whisk effectively, after which stir within the cheese and season with slightly 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.
Enable to chill fully earlier than freezing. To reheat from frozen, microwave for 30-40 seconds. Get pleasure from your egg breakfast cups!
Be aware: I used an ice cream scoop to pour into the muffin pan and it made issues approach simpler. You need to use muffin liners, however I discover that egg muffins stick extra to those and are a ache to take away if you happen to freeze them.
Inform me, buddies: what’s your favourite breakfast for busy mornings?
xo
Gina
Extra of my favourite make-ahead breakfast choices:
20 wholesome on-the-go breakfasts
Baked breakfast cookie for one
Apple pie sluggish cooker oatmeal
Home made Starbucks-style sous vide egg bites
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