Harvest Breakfast Pitas

Description

Here’s a great use for leftover roasted root vegetables. The ingredients are flexible; onion, mushroom, tomato, cilantro, and avocado slices also work well. Good with a hot sauce like Cholula® and polenta or grits.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup peeled, seeded, and cubed butternut squash
  • 1 cup peeled and cubed sweet potatoes
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 2 links apple chicken sausage (such as Aidells®), thinly sliced and quartered
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups fresh baby spinach
  • 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes, or to taste
  • 1 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
  • 2 tablespoons goat cheese, or to taste
  • 2 large whole-wheat pita breads, toasted and halved

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  2. Combine butternut squash
  3. sweet potatoes
  4. olive oil
  5. salt
  6. and pepper in a storage container. Cover with lid and shake well until fully coated. Place vegetables onto a baking sheet.
  7. Bake in the preheated oven until vegetables are easily pierced with a fork
  8. about 45 minutes.
  9. Place chicken sausage in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat
  10. turning occasionally
  11. until evenly browned
  12. about 10 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low; add eggs
  13. spinach
  14. and red pepper flakes. Cook and stir until eggs are set
  15. about 5 minutes. Mix in black beans; cook until heated through
  16. about 1 minute. Add goat cheese.
  17. Fill pita breads with scrambled eggs and baked vegetables.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 1 min

Total Time: 1 hr 21 mins

Servings: 4

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