Breakfast Burritos

This morning I had a bunch of friends over and had to come up with something good for everyone. One friend will not eat eggs, my fiance does not like spicy food and I personally hate really sweet breakfasts. So the natural answer was breakfast burritos! The reason for this is everyone can put what they want on their particular burrito and everyone can have as much as they want. I normally put out fried eggs, fried potatoes, salsa, cheese, gravy and homemade sausage crumbles, all to be put inside large homemade flour tortillas.

Now as you all know I am a vegetarian, so today I am going to share my vegetarian sausage recipe. I use this base recipe for a lot of different dishes. I will often put it into a gravy, on pizza or modify it to make amazing taco meat.

For the base of my sausage crumble I use either plain dry tvp or beef flavored dry tvp. I always pick mine up at the local bulk food store. I have two reasons for this, it is dirt cheap there, I can get a pound of tvp for a couple of dollars. The other reason is I love to support my local stores!

For this recipe I will assume you bought just plain tvp. This recipe is easy to scale and you can modify the seasonings to get exactly what you want. The oil is to add a little bit of grease that I feel sausages need. If you are trying to cut down on fat, feel free to leave it out. The other nice thing about this recipe is that with a little flour, some corn meal and a couple of eggs you can make easy sausage patties.

Sausage Crumbles

    1 cup Water
    1 tablespoon Olive Oil
    1 cup Tvp
    3 tablespoons McKays Beef Seasoning
    1 tablespoon Whole Fennel Seed
    2 teaspoons Sage
    1 teaspoon Salt
    2 teaspoons Black Pepper
    2 tablespoons Minced Garlic


1. Bring water and oil to a rolling boil.

2. Add tvp, and seasonings and reduce heat to medium. I suggest adding the McKay's seasoning first to make sure that it is fully incorporated into the water. You can use any flavor of vegetarian seasoning in place of this

3. Cover and cook for 5-10 minutes stirring occasionally.

4. For browned meat remove from saucepan and fry in a little more oil. If you do not want to dirty too many pans you can do all of your steps in the frying pan.