Recipe: Easy Breakfast Egg Muffins

 

I love these reusable silicone muffin tin liners I found on Amazon!

My husband had tried making these previously (without spraying the muffin tins or using liners, so THAT was fun to clean up...), so I tried making them myself. As soon as I googled "egg muffins," this is the first recipe that showed up. And since it had the word "easy" in the title, I knew it was meant for me.

Ingredients

• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped
• 1 bunch green onions, chopped
• 8 large eggs
• 2 ¾ ounces fully-cooked bacon pieces (such as Oscar Mayer®)
• ¼ cup whole milk
• 1 pinch garlic powder, or to taste
• 1 pinch onion powder, or to taste
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• ½ (8 ounce) package shredded mild cheddar cheese

Directions

1. Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray.
2. Place bell peppers and green onions into a large bowl.
3. Add eggs, bacon, milk, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
4. Sprinkle cheddar cheese into the bowl and whisk until incorporated.
5. Pour mixture equally into the prepared muffin cups.
6. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Let cool slightly before serving.

I left a lot of this out. I only used one bell pepper (orange, for that matter), I don't eat bacon, and I didn't bother with the garlic powder/onion powder/salt. I also have 2% milk at home, so that's what I used. I did have green onion, but I also had some white onion that I added in, too. 

This really IS an easy recipe: mix everything together, pour it into muffin tins, and bake! I love the convenience both for making these but also for eating/packing to-go. Now I'll be set for a while when I need to pack breakfast for work! (yes, I get into the office before 7:30am, so I eat my first meal of the day at my desk...).