Forget the bagels and the cereal – you can have a hot breakfast even when mornings are crazy when you are camping with these make-ahead Camping Breakfast Burritos!
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One of my biggest memories from camping when I was a kid is – of course – the food. My mom didn’t keep a lot of junk food in the house, but whenever we’d go camping, that’s the only time I’d see Twinkies and Ding Dongs and little powdered donuts. When you don’t get these kinds of treats very often, it’s quite the event when they are just there for the taking.
But as excited as I always was for the junk food, I was even more excited for my mom’s breakfast burritos.
Let me just tell you – my mom makes the best breakfast burritos. Camping or not – whenever the family is together and there is breakfast to be had, you can bet that everyone will be requesting my mom’s breakfast burritos.
Now, no matter how hard I’ve tried, I’ve never been able to make breakfast burritos quite like she does. I seriously think she just has the magic touch, because I can duplicate the ingredients exactly, but they never taste the same.
SEE HOW TO MAKE THESE BREAKFAST BURRITOS HERE:
So instead of trying to imitate, I decided that I should just make them my own way. And maybe after I make these hundreds of times, my kids might come to me one day down the road when they are grown, asking me to make “mom’s breakfast burritos”.
Make Ahead Camping Food
The thing I love the most about these breakfast burritos is that they are totally make ahead. I have 3 kids. 3 young kids. 3 adventurous kids. 3 kids that I must keep an eye on at all times, especially when we are in the woods and there is a fire burning. Anything that has as much of the work done as possible before we leave to go camping makes for a more enjoyable camping trip. (Plus less dishes to do – because we all know that doing dishes while camping without a sink is no fun!)
I like to make these up ahead of time and wrap them tightly in foil. Make sure you are using heavy duty foil, and even double wrap them if you can. If the foil comes undone while your burritos are in the fire, it’s hard to save them. Once they are wrapped in foil, throw them all into a large ziptop bag, and then they can hang out in a fridge or in an ice chest until you need to cook them up for breakfast.
Ingredients in these Breakfast Burritos
I made these breakfast burritos with my current favorite combo of breakfast flavors. I love everything with a southwestern flair, and these do not disappoint. My favorite part is probably that I add Old El Paso Taco Seasoning into the eggs – such an easy way to bring an extra punch of flavor to your eggs!!
The taco seasoned eggs are combined with hash browns, cooked cubed ham, cheese, cilantro and my other favorite part – the Old El Paso green chiles. I bet you didn’t see that coming, did you? 😉 (Ok, ok – we all know that I’m a green chile addict at this point.)
All of the ingredients are wrapped up in a tortilla before they are rolled into burritos.
More Camping Food
Dutch Oven Frito Pie
Campfire Cinnamon Blueberry Bread
Hot Ham and Cheese Campfire Sandwiches
Pound Cake and Berry Campfire Skillet Dessert
Dutch Oven Chicken Stew
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Camping Breakfast Burritos
Ingredients
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Add the hash browns and cook for 1 minute, stirring continuously. Add in the ham. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until the hash browns and ham have both browned, about 8-10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, lightly whisk the eggs. Whisk in the taco seasoning. When the hash browns and ham have browned, pour the eggs into the skillet. Cook, stirring frequently, until the eggs have set. Stir in the green chiles, cheese and cilantro.
- Warm the tortillas. Put 1/8 of the egg mixture down the center of each tortilla. Roll up like a burrito and wrap tightly in foil. Store in a ziptop bag in the refrigerator or in a cooler.
- When ready to cook, place wrapped burritos in hot coals next to fire. Let the burritos sit in the coals, turning once, until heated through, about 10-15 minutes. (The time will depend on how hot your fire is.)
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Tammy says
I like to make these and keep them in my freezer for easy breakfasts.
Polly says
We make these so much all summer long. They have become one of our favorite camping breakfasts!
Arthur says
These are great even when you aren’t camping!
Rehoboth says
Excellent recipe
Thanks
Morgan says
This recipe is an absolute car camping game changer. I was genuinely pumped when I woke up each morning because I knew a burrito was in my future. I plopped it on the fire and it got a nice crispy outside and, wow… thank you!!
Dick Hansen says
I absolutely love the breakfast burritos with the seasoning added to the eggs.
Courtney Fulmer says
I’ve made these for every camping trip and now I make them ahead to have for breakfast at home for a couple days. I’m going to try to freeze a few and see how that goes!
Anita zayas says
Did you end up freezing them? How did they turn out after? I am making a bunch and was going to freeze but not sure if they will still be good
Terry Holowaty says
Took these camping and they were fantastic! I used fresh tortilla shells and they were almost like pastry. We are making another batch and freezing them to have at home.
JKS says
The tortillas on my burritos come out super soggy. Any advice? I will admit that I put them in the freezer for two days and transferred them to an ice chest before leaving for our camping trip. They were in the ice chest (always with fresh ice) for 2-3 days before we cooked them. They were good, but the tortillas were wet and soggy. So far I haven’t seen anybody else with the problem I’m having. My theory is that maybe it’s because I froze them and they sort of thawed in the ice chest and sat half frozen for a few days? Could that be it?
Coco says
Have you tried making them and freezing them? So my question is, can you freeze them?
Morgan says
I froze them and they reheated in the oven perfectly.
Ghulam Mohyudin says
It was perfect the first time. I learn so much from you as well!
Sasha Worth says
My gawd! Forget camping I’m gonna fatten myself up by eating these babies every morning!
Abby obaldo says
I’m trying this out for a canoe trip… was wondering if there’s no campfire, you think reheating with a griddle is as good?
SB says
Hello,
I’m making a huge batch of these for a group camping trip this weekend. Can you estimate about how much of the egg mixture you put in each tortilla?
Thanks!
Deedra Daniels says
I don’t understand how this happened, but I have a family member that doesn’t like any pork. Do you think ground beef would work?
Deborah says
I would probably be tempted to add some extra spices to the beef, but I think it would be a great way to change it up!
CD says
I made these on a recent camping trip – I asked my husband to fry up bacon to use instead of the ham. OMG – add those to the burritos in lieu of the ham… so incredibly yummy!
Suz-A-Luz says
i am wondering, as I have camped for many years if they stick to the foil when reheating on the open fire. I have in the past used a veggie spray on the foil before adding ingredients and as of late, added a layer of equal sized parchment on top of the foil. Any thoughts?
Deborah says
The only time I’ve had them stick to the foil is if they burn. I think using a nonstick spray or parchment paper would work great if you are worried about it, though!