Vegan Breakfast Burritos with Chickpea Eggs

One of my fondest memories of New Mexico is sitting on the back of a pickup truck on a clear, crisp October morning, chasing a hot air balloon, and eating yummy homemade breakfast burritos.

So when I asked my dear readers what they would like for me to make next, and someone suggested Vegan Breakfast Burritos .... I knew this recipe was it.

Traditionally, breakfast burritos are flour tortillas filled with scrambled eggs, hash brown potatoes, bacon or sausage, and some kind of salsa or chile sauce.

They make a perfect "grab n go" food for when you're on the run and the nice thing about this recipe is how versatile it is.

For example, you could easily use oil-free Pita Pockets instead of a flour tortilla. Or you can use your favorite salsa instead of my Easy New Mexican Red Chile Sauce.

For the 'bacon' in this recipe, I used some smoky Tempeh Strips by Lightlife Foods, but you could just as easily use my Tofu Bacon, Mushroom Bacon, or even my Breakfast Sausage Cauliflower Crumbles. 

For the potatoes, you could shred a leftover baked potato, cook up some frozen hash browns, or brown some prepackaged "Simply Potatoes" on your George Foreman grill like I did.

So many options!

But the eggs have always been the tricky part. I've made a Tofu Scramble before, and it was 'ok' but I know many of you avoid soy, so I had to find another alternative and was surprised when I came across Vegan Egg recipes made from Chickpea Flour.

Intrigued, I tried this recipe from nestandglow.com and was shocked as to how easy they were, and how much they reminded me of eggs! I was amazed! So I tweaked the recipe a bit for my own taste and the following recipe is the result. So thanks N&G! Great recipe!

I will say there are a couple of ingredients you may have a hard time finding, so I will include links to Amazon below. As always, these are affiliate links so if you buy I will get a small commission at no extra cost to you.

Chickpea Flour - made from ground up chickpeas, look for these in your section of the grocery store that has Bob's Red Mill Products, or use the Amazon link below.

Black Salt - also known as Kala Namak, starts out as Himalayan Pink Salt or sodium chloride and is then heated to extremely high temperatures and mixed with Indian spices and herbs including the seeds of the harad fruit which contains sulfur. This is what gives the recipe it's 'eggy' flavor.

Ok, on to the recipe.

Vegan Breakfast Burritos with Chickpea Eggs

First, decide on all the other ingredients before we start making the Vegan Eggs. Whole Foods carries a oil-free Pita Bread you could use in place of the tortilla, or you could make it a breakfast bowl with no bread at all.

If you want to make my Red Chile Sauce (highly recommended), do that now or choose your favorite salsa or hot sauce.

Prepare your potatoes unless you have some leftovers in the fridge.

And choose your meat substitute unless you want your Vegan Breakfast Burritos completly meatless - and that's fine too.

Ok on to the eggs.

On your stove, heat 1 cup of water until it's just simmering.

In a small bowl, whisk the chickpea flour, nutritional yeast, and all the spices EXCEPT the black salt until mixed thoroughly.

Add ½ cup of water to this flour mixture and whisk until smooth. Slowly pour this into the hot water on the stove and stir frequently over med-low heat for the next 5 minutes.

Now we simply pour this mixture into a shallow, 8" x 8" square baking dish and refrigerate for about an hour.

There are videos of people pouring this directly into a hot frying pan and 'scrambling' it like eggs, but I've seen what that does if you do not have a non-stick pan and it looks messy. I like the method used by the recipe I linked above as it's a lot less messy, there's nothing to stick, and the texture is spot on.

While we're waiting you can decide on what kind of veggies you like scrambled in your eggs. I used about ¼ cup of diced onions, ¼ cup of diced bell pepper, a clove of minced garlic, and a 4oz can of chopped green chiles.

I added all my veggies to a small frying pan with about ¼ cup of veg broth. Saute until softened. Then, when the eggs are set and the hour has passed, fold the eggs into your veggies. They should easily slide out in one big square. Use a fork, spatula, or potato masher to mash the eggs into their traditional scrambled shape.

And now, we add ½ tsp of the black salt. It loses its egg flavor very quickly, which is why we wait until the end.

Mix thoroughly and then assemble your burritos. I have to say, these Vegan Scrambled Eggs are the closest thing to the original that I have tried. So if you are just starting out on this Plant-Based Journey - and miss scrambled eggs, or have a spouse you want to impress - give this recipe a go.

And if you DO, please leave those comments. See ya next week.

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