Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Easy Breakfast Taquitos

Ok.  Since everyone will tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, what better place to start than there.  I had to do some research on this one so I could bring you all of the nutritional facts, so that you could see this was a healthy alternative to a traditional southwest style breakfast.  Keeping in mind that nutrition is only part of the battle, i.e. if you eat 5 taquitos, you are exceeding the recommended serving size, and therefore are consuming many more times the quantities quoted for each serving.  So, without further ado or explanation:

Ingredients:
1 dozen white corn tortillas
1 lb Turkey Sausage (recipe will follow)
8 Large Grade AA cage free eggs
1/4 cup buttermilk
cooking spray

Method:
Beat 8 eggs and buttermilk in a large mixing bowl with hand beater.  Beat until slightly foaming, or on the verge of whipped. (you want the eggs really fluffy.)
Lightly spray a heated skillet with cooking spray.  Scramble eggs in skillet until almost completely done, then add Turkey Sausage.  Continue to cook and stir until eggs are completely done, and sausage to egg ratio is about 1-2.
Spoon about 2-3 tbsp of egg/sausage mix into each tortilla.

Makes:
12 Taquitos of which each is 1 serving.

Nutritional facts:(per serving)
Calories---149
Fat---6g
Sodium--131mg
Sugars---0
Calories from Fat---50

All of this nutritional information was gathered from each of the products themselves and then calculated to the servings size that I suggest.
Fruit is an integral part of every days food intake, and with few exceptions is generally not bad for you at any time in any way.
If you add half of an apple or half of an orange, or some other fleshy tree fruit to this breakfast, you will feel satisfied, and have energy from the natural sugars provided from the fruit.
Diabetics, of course, need to be cautious about their fruit consumption through the day as they monitor the total sugar  intake.

I hope this gets some of you off to a good start tomorrow morning, I know it will me.
Good luck, and good eating.

1 comment:

  1. Never been a fan of turkey sausage, but this makes me want to give it another try.

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