Andouille Sausage Breakfast Tacos

Andouille Sausage Breakfast Tacos are the BEST dish to wake up to! Break down the andouille sausage and cook it in a saucepan until cooked through. Once the sausage is crumbly and delicious, add onion, sweet peppers and a jalapeño to the pan until they soften. Remove them from the pan, and scramble the eggs in the same skillet. These tacos add some much-needed heat to the breakfast or brunch table.

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For whatever reason, I always accidentally (read: not-so-accidentally) purchase extra andouille whenever I’m whipping up Shrimp and Grits… and my husband and I always go back and forth on what to do with the leftovers.

A few months back, I had the brilliant idea to make breakfast tacos with the remaining links of sausage.

The resulting breakfast dish blew both of us away.

As someone who wasn’t raised eating crazy hot dishes, the tacos were spicy enough, but not too zing-y to overwhelm and set fire to my tastebuds.

For my husband, who adds hot sauce to most everything I cook (though I’d like to think I’ve gotten better at adding more heat to my recipes over the years), the tacos were well-seasoned and spicy enough. So much so that he didn’t need any additional pepper or hot sauce.

These breakfast tacos are a great compromise between the spice-lover and the not-so-good-with-spice-but-trying-super-hard person.

Depending on the sausage, the heat of these tacos varies. Sometimes, it has been perfectly balanced for me, while other times, it’s been a bit of a mouth-on-fire situation.

However, as a dear friend’s dad told me a long time ago after adding an entire bottle of Tabasco to a dish he cooked for us, sometimes, you gotta send those tastebuds into overdrive and enjoy the resulting endorphin rush.

Either way, I absolutely recommend trying this dish, especially if you love a little spice!

Andouille Sausage Breakfast Tacos Essentials

• A nonstick skillet.
• Glass bowls.
• Whisk.

Get the look!

• Long Porcelain Serving Platter.

Are you a big fan of breakfast tacos? I recommend trying my Freezer-Friendly Breakfast Tacos, too!

Interested in these spicy breakfast tacos? Here’s how you can make your own:

Andouille Sausage Breakfast Tacos

Erin Parker, The Speckled Palate

Andouille Sausage Breakfast Tacos are the BEST dish to wake up to! Break down the andouille sausage and cook it in a saucepan until cooked through. Once the sausage is crumbly and delicious, add onion, sweet peppers and a jalapeño to the pan until they soften. Remove them from the pan, and scramble the eggs in the same skillet. These tacos add some much-needed heat to the breakfast or brunch table.

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Servings 8 tacos

Calories 595 kcal

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Ingredients

  

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• 2 links andouille sausage or any hot pork sausage
• 1 yellow onion diced
• 2 small sweet peppers diced
• 1 jalapeño pepper seeded and diced
• 5 eggs
• Tony Chachere's Salt-Free Creole Seasoning to taste
• Kosher Salt to taste
• Black Pepper to taste
• 8 Flour or corn tortillas warmed
• 1 Avocado sliced, for serving

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Instructions

 

• Remove the sausage from the casings (or dice), and add to a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• While the sausage is cooking, dice the onion, sweet peppers and jalapeño. Set aside.
• Break the eggs into a bowl, whipping together with a fork. Season with the Tony's, salt and pepper. Set aside.
• Once the sausage is cooked through, add the onion and peppers to the pan. Cook until the veggies have softened slightly.
• Pour in the eggs, stirring lightly every few moments to scrape the cooked eggs off the bottom of the pan. Continue cooking until the eggs are scrambled to your desired consistency.
• Measure out the filling into the warmed flour tortillas, and enjoy warm!

Notes

I've encountered TWO types of andouille sausage. Both can work in this recipe. Either take the ground kind out of its casing and cook like you would taco meat OR dice a smoked andouille sausage into ½" pieces.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 595kcalCarbohydrates: 103gProtein: 19gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 123mgSodium: 658mgFiber: 6gSugar: 3g

Keyword Breakfast, breakfast tacos, easy breakfast ideas, easy breakfast recipe, easy breakfast tacos, savory breakfast recipe, texmex breakfast tacos

Course Breakfast & Brunch

Cuisine TexMex

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The photos and recipe for these Andouille Sausage Breakfast Tacos were originally published on August 20, 2014. The photographs, along with the text of this blog post, were updated on September 27, 2017.