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Breakfast Quesadillas are a quick and easy morning meal made with crispy tortillas, eggs, and melty cheese. Customize them with bacon, sausage, or veggies for a hearty breakfast everyone will love.
Quesadillas are always a favorite, and now they are for breakfast! Crispy tortillas are filled with eggs, melty cheese, and your favorite breakfast add-ins. It is the perfect warm, comforting meal that’s ready in minutes.
Keeping with the theme of breakfast tacos and breakfast enchiladas, these fabulously cheesy breakfast quesadillas are popping with flavor and are super simple to make.
Plus you can mix it up to use whatever you have on hand and you like, but the method stays the exact same. Add bacon, sausage, veggies, or extra cheese, whatever you love most. Serve these up with some restaurant-style salsa for a tasty weekend brunch, or make them ahead to take on the go during the week.
Ingredients You’ll Need
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- Tortillas – I like flour tortillas for quesadillas, but you can use whatever you like.
- Eggs
- Protein – Breakfast sausage, or other breakfast meat, like bacon or ham. Or, leave the meat out if you’re making this recipe vegetarian.
- Cheese – Shredded cheddar cheese. You can also use another melty cheese like Monterey Jack, mozzarella, provolone, or Pepper Jack.
- Oil
Breakfast Quesadilla
Rise and shine with this easy, cheesy breakfast quesadilla recipe! Made with protein-rich eggs, savory breakfast sausage, and melty cheese folded into warm, pan-fried tortillas.
Ingredients
- 2 8-inch flour tortillas or corn tortillas
- 4 large eggs
- 4 oz breakfast sausage, bacon, ham, or any other breakfast meat
- ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
Instructions
- In a skillet cook sausage or other breakfast meat until browned. Break apart sausage into small pieces, dice ham, or crumble the bacon.4 oz breakfast sausage
- Crack eggs into a bowl and whisk until well blended.4 large eggs
- After the meat has cooked, pour the eggs into the pan and cook over medium heat. Stir frequently until they are mostly cooked. Add the meat back to the pan and mix in with the eggs. Remove from the heat.
- Fill half of each tortilla with a thin layer of cheese, top with half of the egg mixture, and the rest of the cheese. Fold in half.2 8-inch flour tortillas or corn tortillas, ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Heat skillet or grill to medium-high heat. Brush the outside of the quesadilla with oil and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side until crispy and the cheese has melted.2 teaspoons olive oil
- Remove, slice into pieces, and serve with salsa, guacamole, sour cream, or your favorite hot sauce.
Notes
- Add any veggies you like, use a different cheese, or leave out the meat to make a vegetarian breakfast quesadilla.
Nutrition
Calories: 640kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 34g | Fat: 42g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 24g | Cholesterol: 449mg | Sodium: 1022mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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How to Make a Breakfast Quesadilla
- Cook the meat. Break up and brown breakfast sausage in a skillet, or fry some ham or bacon until it’s nice and crispy and dice it up afterward. Set the meat aside for now.
- Scramble the eggs. Whisk your eggs together in a bowl, and then add them to the pan (wipe out any leftover grease first). Give the eggs a gentle scramble, stirring them as they cook. When the eggs are cooked, add your meat back to the pan.
- Assemble. Take the pan off the heat. Lay out your tortillas and sprinkle each half with cheese, topped with egg, and then more cheese. Fold over the tortillas.
- Fry. Next, brush the outsides of the quesadillas lightly with oil and toast them in a skillet for a few minutes per side. When the cheese inside is melted and the outside is crispy, your breakfast quesadillas are ready to slice and serve!
Recipe Tips & Variations
- Try not to overcook the eggs. Overcooked eggs will be dry, so do your best to take the skillet off the heat just before the eggs are fully cooked. They’ll continue to cook a little as the quesadillas fry afterward.
- Use fresh tortillas. Older, stale flour tortillas tend to tear or break.
- Add-ins. Want to add veggies? Add in diced bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, black olives, fresh spinach, or sliced jalapeños. You can sauté the veggies at the same time as the sausage.
- Egg-free. Fill these breakfast quesadillas with a tofu scramble in place of eggs. Or make a version with potatoes like my Potato Tacos.
- Vegetarian. Make a vegetarian breakfast quesadilla by leaving out the meat or replacing it with beans, lentils, or veggies (see above).
- Use your air fryer. Cook this breakfast quesadilla in the air fryer! See my recipe for air fryer quesadillas for details.
Make-Ahead and Storage
- To store. Store quesadillas in an airtight container. When you want to reheat you can do it in a skillet or air fryer to get the tortilla crispy again and the filling warmed through.
- Make ahead and freeze. Freeze these breakfast quesadillas before cooking. Prepare the egg mixture, let it cool, and then assemble the quesadillas as directed. Wrap each quesadilla in plastic wrap, and pre-freeze them on a baking sheet. Once solid, store the quesadillas in an airtight container or freezer bag and freeze for up to 2-3 months.
- Cook from frozen. To heat this breakfast quesadilla straight from the freezer, unwrap it and warm it in the microwave for 1-2 minutes. Or, leave it in the fridge to thaw and then toast the quesadilla in a skillet as directed.
I love everything about this! I made these quesadillas this morning, and we absolutely devoured them.
This is such an easy and delicious breakfast to prepare! It’s so filling too!
I love how easy this is to make and how tasty it is too! Thanks for the recipe!!
We made these for the kids and they absolutely loved them. Thanks!
I made these breakfast quesadillas, and they were delicious—so cheesy and filling! Definitely a keeper!
The Breakfast Quesadilla recipe was a morning game changer for my family! We loved the combination of eggs, cheese, and our choice of breakfast meat all wrapped up in a crispy tortilla.