These are the Best Breakfast Tacos for starting your day with big flavor and satisfying ingredients. Loaded with eggs, bacon, melty cheese, and your favorite toppings, they’re quick to make and totally customizable.
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Why This Recipe Works:
- Balanced & Hearty: Eggs, cheese, pico, and optional add-ins like bacon or avocado make these tacos filling and flavorful.
- Quick & Easy: They come together fast, making them perfect for busy mornings or laid-back brunches.
- Customizable for Everyone: Whether you like them spicy, cheesy, meaty, or veggie-packed, these tacos are easy to adapt.
- Great Anytime: While perfect for breakfast, these tacos are delicious any time of day—yes, even breakfast for dinner!
I've shared other delicious taco recipes in the past (like my tri-tip tacos, easy potato tacos, carnitas tacos, blackened shrimp tacos, etc.), but I wanted to share one of the easiest taco recipes I make.
What You Need For This Recipe
- Bacon- Use thick or thin bacon- whatever you prefer! For a quicker cooking time, bake bacon in the oven while you make the rest of the tacos!
- Eggs- I use large eggs, and each egg typically makes enough to fill 1.5-2 tacos, depending on how many other toppings you use.
- Butter- This is my *not so secret* ingredient to rich velvety scrambled eggs!
- Corn Tortillas- I like to use the mini corn tortillas for these tacos, but use whatever size you have, just keep in mind bigger tortillas will take more to fill and result in fewer overall tacos.
- Toppings: I love adding cheese, my homemade pico de gallo, roasted tomatillo salsa, cilantro lime sauce, or even my red enchilada sauce, as well as some cheese and fresh chopped cilantro!
How to Make The Best Breakfast Tacos:
- Step 1: Cook your bacon. You can cook in pieces or strips, then allow it to cool and chop it into pieces.
- Step 2: Whisk eggs with seasoning.
- Step 3: In a cold pan, add butter and whisk. Turn the heat to medium and continuously whisk until cooked.
- Step 4: Heat some oil in a pan and slightly fry your tortillas then assemble your tacos!
Expert Tips
- Custardy Scrambled Eggs: Whisking the salt into the eggs before cooking helps break down the eggs a little, making them creamy. Whisking continuously makes small curds, making a smooth texture, also melting the butter while whisking and cooking the eggs makes them custardy and delicious.
- Lower Calorie: Use diced Canadian bacon instead of bacon, and just warm your tortillas up without frying them.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Cheese, Onion, Cilantro, Salsa, Pico De Gallo, and Hot Sauce are all delicious tops for breakfast tacos.
Serve breakfast tacos alongside hash browns, smoked queso, salsa, or an orange smoothie!
Breakfast tacos are best eaten right away, but will last several days when refrigerated.
More Related Recipes
For more easy breakfast recipes check out my Easy Breakfast Burritos, Delicious Breakfast Sandwich, Cinnamon Roll French Toast, Quick Sticky Buns (less than 30 minutes!), and this Chocolate Banana Smoothie!
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Best Breakfast Tacos
Ingredients
- 4 oz bacon
- 6 eggs
- 2 tsps butter
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder to taste
- 9 mini corn tortillas or 6 regular corn tortillas
- Oil for frying tortillas
Optional Toppings
- Pico de Gallo
- Salsa Verde
- Hot Sauce
- Avocado
- Cilantro
- Onion
- Cheese
Instructions
- If making pico or salsa verde, make that first, then set it aside.Pico de Gallo
- Cook the bacon either in the oven or on the stove. Sometimes when I fry bacon, I will cut it into small pieces first. When finished cooking and cool enough to handle, chop into pieces.4 oz bacon
- Heat 1-2 tablespoons of oil in a fry pan, then fry tortillas- I like to lightly brown on one side, then flip and lightly brown the other side.Oil for frying tortillas, 9 mini corn tortillas
- Whisk eggs, salt, and garlic powder. In a cold nonstick pan, add the butter and the whisked eggs. Turn the heat to medium and whisk continuously until the eggs are cooked.*6 eggs, ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon garlic powder, 2 tsps butter
- Fill taco shells with egg, add crumbled bacon, salsa, and any other toppings. Enjoy!Salsa Verde, Hot Sauce, Avocado, Cilantro, Onion, Cheese
Notes
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A long time ago I used this recipe for my Hearthstone inspired Menu. Hearthstone is an online card game you can read more about here.
I turned this recipe into devilsaur egg breakfast tacos.
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Myilicia says
I see you grew up in DC. This is a good effort but not a breakfast taco. Come to San Antonio, TX to see what breakfast tacos really are, we eat them every morning.
Lisa says
Actually, I grew up in CA, visited DC for a few months, but live in NM 🙂 I am pretty happy with my breakfast tacos- especially with all the green chile I typically add to them, but if I ever visit San Antonio you bet I'll try the breakfast tacos! I love all types of tacos! What types of things do you put in your breakfast tacos? I'd love to know!
Stephanie says
These look scrumptious! Your photos are gorgeous, too!
Lisa says
Thank you!
Chef Mireille says
wow these are fantastic - perfect to serve for brunch
Catherine Brown says
Oh, man... I do LOVE me some tacos!! Never made breakfast tacos before... I think that is about to change. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Mayuri Patel says
I'm visiting my son soon and he loves a good brunch during the weekends. A good brunch idea, I'll make this for him.
mydeliciousmeals says
That's a way to bring a change to my breakfast. We usually eat tacos for dinner but this sounds like a good idea, I can't see a link for the salsa verde though, it just says 'recipe here' in plain text. Thanks
Lisa says
Thanks for catching that! I'll add the link! Haha! And yes I totally recommend tacos for breakfast 😛
Jere Cassidy says
Yes to breakfast tacos. These look amazing, especially since I am eating breakfast right now and it's not yummy. Great photos too. I'm pinning for later.
Lisa says
Thank you!
Vladka says
We love tacos, but never had them for breakfast though. We usually make them for dinner or lunch. These look really lovely, can't wait to make them for my family!
Stine Mari says
I love the name of these devilsaur egg tacos 🙂 So cute! And they look really tasty too, I'm so hungry right now...