Sausage Tacos
These breakfast Sausage Tacos combine your favorite breakfast flavors with a soft tortilla to create a handheld breakFEAST everyone will love. Savory breakfast sausage and scrambled eggs are folded up in a tortilla and topped with cheddar cheese and pico de gallo for an explosion of southwestern flavor in every bite.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so we like to keep it interesting with all kinds of creatively delicious dishes, especially savory ones.
Recipes like our bundt cake breakfast and overnight croissant breakfast casserole bake with gravy are two examples of how versatile breakfast ingredients can be and how creative you can get with them.
Now, we’ve added sausage tacos to our breakfast menu. With tons of savory breakfast sausage, scrambled eggs, cheese, and pico de gallo in a soft tortilla, this is a handheld start to the day that lets you know you ate something!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Limited Ingredients: This recipe requires just six simple ingredients, all of which can be found in any grocery store.
- Easy: This hearty breakfast is easy to make, requiring just a few simple steps and about 30 minutes from start to finish.
- Customizable: It’s easy to tweak this recipe to make it your own.
- Versatile: By simply changing the meat, these tacos can be a breakfast, lunch, dinner, or appetizer.
Ingredients
We’ve made this list to help you save time on your next trip to the grocery store. You can find the full amounts needed in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.
You can grab everything you need for this recipe in just a few minutes at your local grocery store.
Variations
- Mild: Omit the red pepper flakes for a mild version.
- Extra Spicy: Mix diced jalapenos into the sausage or use spicy breakfast sausage for an extra spicy version.
- Lunch or Dinner Version: Use chorizo, Italian sausage, or ground beef with taco seasoning for lunch or dinner tacos.
- Cheese: Shredded cheddar, cheddar Jack, taco blend, and Mexican blends all work well.
- Toppings: Top these tacos with your favorites like salsa, pico de gallo, taco sauce, sour cream, avocado, or green onion.
- Low-Carb: Use a low-carb tortilla for a keto-friendly version.
- Gluten-Free: Use corn tortillas for a gluten-free option.
How to Make Sausage Tacos
This is a quick overview of the steps needed to make this recipe. You can find the full instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Divide the sausage into eight balls and press them on top of each tortilla.
- Cook sausage side down over medium-high heat in a thin layer of oil, pressing down until the meat is cooked through and smashed. Flip the tortillas over and lightly toast the other side. Repeat until all the tacos are cooked.
- Top each taco with shredded cheese. Then, scramble or fry the eggs in the skillet, seasoning them with red pepper, salt, and pepper to taste.
- Place the cooked eggs on top of the tacos and top with pico de gallo and/or your other favorite toppings.
Expert Tips
- We like to cook the eggs in the same skillet as the sausage tacos, so they get even more flavor in them.
- It’s important to cook the meat on the tortillas. This warms the tortillas as the meat cooks, then when you flip them, they’re easier and faster to toast.
- For really melty cheese, sprinkle it on the tacos while you toast them.
- Prepare your eggs scrambled, sunny side up, or over easy. It all works!
Sausage Tacos FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Absolutely! Italian sausage, chorizo, or breakfast sausage can all be used as taco filling to create different flavors.
Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, Mexican blend, taco blend, cotija, or queso fresco are all excellent choices for breakfast sausage tacos.
Serve breakfast tacos with sides like hash browns, fresh fruit, refried beans, or any of your favorite traditional breakfast sides.
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📖Recipe
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Sausage Tacos
Equipment
- large skillet
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground breakfast sausage
- 8 taco sized tortillas
- 1 ½ cups Shredded cheddar cheese
- 8 Large eggs
- ½ teaspoon Red pepper flakes
- ⅓ cup Pico de gallo
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Separate the sausage into 8 evenly sized balls, and place one on top of each keto tortilla.
- Heat a thin layer of oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
- Press the tortillas, meat side down into the heated skillet, and press the meat down evenly until it has formed a thin patty on the underside of the tortilla.
- Sear the smash burger tacos until the meat is browned and cooked through.
- Flip the tortillas over to lightly toast the otherside.
- Remove, and repeat the process until you have cooked all of the smash burger tacos.
- Sprinkle each smash burger taco with shredded cheddar cheese.
- Crack the eggs into a skillet, and cook them to your liking. You can prepare them sunny side up, fried or scrambled.
- Sprinkle the eggs with red pepper flakes and salt and pepper to taste.
- Place one cooked egg on the top of each smash burger taco.
- Top each taco with a bit of pico de gallo before serving.
Disclaimer
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.
These look so good! Cooking the sausage while it’s on the tortilla is such a great idea. I’ve never seen that before.
These were really good. I used Mexican cheese and added salsa on top. We loved them.
These sausage tacos look like a fun twist on taco night! I love how the simple, savory sausage filling can be the base for all sorts of toppings. Perfect for quick dinners or feeding a crowd without breaking a sweat.
I tried these for taco night and they were a big hit. The sausage gave such a great flavor!