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Breakfast Burrito

A tortilla filled with hash browns, bacon or sausage, eggs, cheese, salt, pepper, and optional Hollandaise sauce.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Breakfast Burrito

2–4

Ingredients

Directions

Fill the tortilla

  1. Place one-quarter of the hash browns in a tortilla.

  2. On top of this place 2 strips of bacon or one quarter of the breakfast sausage.

  3. Add two eggs, cheese, salt, and pepper.

Roll and finish

  1. Roll up the tortilla to enclose everything.

  2. If you used poached or sunny-side up eggs, squeeze the burrito to pop the yolks and work the yolk around to form a sauce.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

937Calories
56 gProtein
33 gFat
98 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Burritonot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sauce + cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the main filling, and runny yolks become a sauce that moistens the burrito.
Hash browns
Add starchy bulk and a crisp-tender texture to the filling.
Bacon or breakfast sausage
Adds savory fat and salty, meaty flavor to the filling.
Cheese
Melts to bind the filling together and add richness.
Flour burrito skins
Wrap that encloses the filling and holds it together for eating.

The step that matters

Squeezing the yolks for sauce. Runny yolks coat the filling as a rich, emulsified sauce, but only if the eggs were poached or sunny-side up and not fully set. Squeeze gently to avoid tearing the tortilla.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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