Spicing Up Breakfast (Or Dinner)

At this rate I don't think we're going to have a problem hitting twenty new recipes this year. Behold, recipe number three! The basic idea came from Dash of Savory, but we put our own spin on it (as usual).

The Recipe

Spicy Breakfast Cups

1 Can Biscuits

8 Eggs

1 Pound Chorizo

1 Cup Diced Onion

2 Cloves Garlic

Chopped Cilantro

Salt and Pepper

Shredded Cheese

Preheat oven to 400. Saute the onions in a pan with oil until tender. Add the chorizo and cook until browned. Add the garlic and cook for another minute or two. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside. Next, flatten each of the biscuits from the can and place into greased ramekins (or muffin tins), forming them up the sides as much as possible to make a cup. Spoon your chorizo/onion mixture into the cups, top it with an egg, then some cilantro, salt and pepper, and cheese. Put these in the oven and bake until the biscuit is golden brown and the egg whites are set (about 15 mins). Remove from the ramekin and top with a dollop of sour cream and/or a spoon full of salsa.

End Results and Final Thoughts

This was delicious. But of course it was, just look at that recipe! So many fun things all together - how could it be bad? We used Grands! Original Biscuits, a spicy chorizo we found at the store, and a "Taco" cheese mix. Really though, this can be made using about any combination of ingredients you would care to try. We wanted to go more of a spicy / Mexican route, hence the chorizo and cilantro. But other combos? Well, off the top of my head: ground turkey, sauteed spinach, and mozzarella cheese; thin-sliced ham and cheddar cheese; bacon, diced tomatoes, and provolone cheese; and Italian sausage, green peppers, and Havarti cheese. (And now I'll have to give these combos a try - good ideas, self!) One thing that we would do differently is maybe fill them a little less full. We didn't even try to take them out of the ramekin since it would most likely have resulted in a mess. But eating out of the ramekin wasn't hard, so this isn't a big deal - just something to consider. The only other thing is that these ended up being reasonably spicy. This was fine by me, but Leslie probably could have stood to have the heat turned down a few degrees. As a result, this wasn't overly breakfasty. Not that I couldn't have eaten it for breakfast, but it didn't make me feel like I was eating brinner, just that I was having a somewhat nontraditional (albeit delicious) dinner. So maybe if we're preparing these for a breakfast in the future we'll stick to more traditional fillings. We served this with some hash browns we mixed with the leftover chorizo - and they were practically good enough to be a meal themselves! Definitely a good dinner (or brinner?) for us.