Easy Camping Breakfast Burritos
Whether camping in the great outdoors or in makeshift tents in the living room, a family campout is just plain FUN!! A campout isn’t complete without tasty camp food. Breakfast is my favorite meal while camping. These easy campfire burritos are made ahead at home, then finished off at the campsite, on the grill, or in your oven.
Campfire cooking needs to be easy and as mess free as possible. In the great outdoors, you don’t want unwanted visitors (think ants and raccoons) to your camp site because you left food out. So simple is key. These burritos are cooked up at home, wrapped in foil, and stored until you’re ready to heat and serve.
My family loves chorizo, a spicy Mexican sausage. These burritos combine chorizo, potato, egg, and cheese. If you don’t want spicy burritos, you can substitute breakfast sausage. No matter what combination you use, here are a few tips to help you create amazingly delicious breakfast burritos.
- Don’t add salsa until just before serving. Otherwise, your burrito will be a soggy mess.
- Place the potatoes/hash browns in the center of the burritos. It helps to soak in any liquid from the sausage and keep it away from the tortilla.
- If you aren’t going to eat your breakfast burritos within 24 hours, store them wrapped in a ziploc bag and freeze.
Easy Camping Breakfast Burritos
Easy breakfast burritos are made ahead to leave you more time while camping. You can enjoy these at your next campout, backyard grill out, or at home.
Ingredients
- 4 large flour tortillas
- 1/2 pound chorizo sausage
- 6 large eggs
- Salt and pepper
- 4 cups golden brown cooked hash browns or skillet potatoes
- 4 slices of monterey jack or provolone cheese
Instructions
- In a large skillet, brown the chorizo until done. Place cooked chorizo on a paper towel lined plate to soak up any excess grease.
- Return skillet to stove and scramble the eggs. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Tear off 4 large squares of aluminum foil and place on a counter or flat surface.
- Heat tortillas and place one on each piece of foil.
- Top with cheese, chorizo, eggs, and hash browns.
- Roll burrito up tightly and enclose in aluminum foil.
- Store in the refrigerator or cooler until ready to use. Can be frozen until ready to use as well.
- When ready to serve: Reheat burrito, wrapped in foil, on the campfire, grill, or at home in the oven. Heat until contents are heated thru. Serve with salsa.
The great outdoors just got a little greater! I haven’t had a breakfast burrito is ages. Yours look like a perfect way to start the day.
Thanks KC. These made great on the go breakfasts.
Great tips and I would even use this when traveling and staying a hotels with a kitchenette. Would be a great money saver for our family of 6.
They freeze really well, so you won’t need too many ice packs when traveling.
I haven’t been camping since I lived up North, however we have been thinking of taking a camping trip this spring and your Easy Camping Breakfast Burritos would sure be a vast improvement over some of the traditional camping breakfasts.
These beat cold cereal any day.
I love your camping burritos, but then again I love all burritos haha!
You can’t go wrong with burritos. 🙂
Yummy, these look delicious! I usually prepare all the ingredients for camping breakfast burritos ahead of time, but I’ve never put them together ahead of time. Pre-wrapping in tin foil is a great idea… so easy!
They keep really well wrapped. The trick is the potatoes in the middle of the burrito of the outside doesn’t get soggy.
Yum! It took me a minute to figure out what that bright red meat was! 🙂 We would probably go with regular breakfast sausage, but I love the idea for an easy camp out breakfast!
We like the chorizo because it generally doesn’t need any salsa. It’s spicy enough as it is.
this is a great idea for breakfast and I like this because of the convenience of preparing.Thanks for the tips.Especially,now I know it is good to keep potatoes in the center…
It’s funny how a little thing like where the potatoes are makes all the difference. I’m sure that once the weather finally warms up and stays warm, I’ll be able to get out more and do more camp cooking like this.
This is a great idea for breakfast any time. I can just imagine how a smoky fire would enhance these foil wrapped burritos. What a great camping idea!
Thanks so much Diane.
Hi Nicky! These breakfast burritos are a great idea. I like how you made them up ahead of time. I like to cook, but when I go camping I really like to be on vacation like the rest of the family. It’s nice to have these easy to prepare meals. Do your little ones eat chorizo? My daughter is starting to show a fondness for spicier foods, but my two middle boys don’t eat spice at all. It’s all so interesting to me how they are all so different.
All of mine like chorizo, but for them, I go mild. They are eating spicier foods as they get older.
These look delicious! I love provolone cheese, and never thought about putting it in a breakfast burrito. We often are out of town for business trips and these would be awesome to even heat up in a hotel microwave – minus the foil – hahahaha!!
We do the same thing for our vacation road trips.