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Healthy Breakfast Burrito (Paleo, Gluten-Free)

January 25, 2017 by Hannah Healy, Updated August 22, 2018 21 Comments

This healthy breakfast burrito is paleo, gluten free and the perfect antidote to a boring breakfast rut. It's an easy wrap that you can take on the go!
Total Time: 15 minutes
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This healthy breakfast burrito is paleo, gluten free and the perfect antidote to a boring breakfast rut. It’s an easy wrap that you can take on the go!A close up of a healthy breakfast burrito cut in half

This healthy breakfast burrito is paleo, gluten free and the perfect antidote to a boring breakfast rut.

Picture this: it’s a busy morning. You know you’re going to be on the run for hours, and you will need fuel to keep going. But the clock is ticking, and your time left to make a healthy breakfast is running out.

Sound familiar? Yeah, I thought so.

This easy morning wrap might just become your new staple breakfast recipe. Why? It’s low carb with lots of healthy fat and protein, which means it will keep you full for hours and eliminate sugar cravings. It’s packed with nutrient-dense veggies, sometimes hard to find in a breakfast recipe. You wouldn’t normally see a big collard green leaf as your tortilla on a regular Mexican burrito, but that’s what makes this one so much better!

It takes only 15 minutes to throw together, so you can consider it “fast food” because it’s so quick (although it’s so much healthier than what you would normally consider fast food!). Oh, and you can eat it on the run (if you absolutely must)!

Enter this Paleo Breakfast Burrito. And exit your home just in time.

Bacon? In A “Healthy” Recipe?

Yes! Bacon can be healthy. There is so much misinformation out there about saturated fats and animal foods. One of the most important things to know about eating meat is to make sure you get grass-fed and pasture raised meats because that makes all the difference in nutritional quality. Meat can be unhealthy if it is from factory farms, but animals raised on pasture actually do produce healthy meat!

If you really want to know the truth about saturated fats, read my article here.

Healthy Breakfast Burrito Recipe (Paleo, Gluten-Free):

Healthy breakfast burrito ingredients on a wooden surfaceBacon in a frying panIngredients in a frying pan for a breakfast burritoA process shot of making a healthy breakfast burritoA healthy breakfast burrito cut in half

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Healthy Breakfast Burrito (Paleo, Gluten-Free)
Prep Time
15 mins
Total Time
15 mins
 
This healthy breakfast burrito is paleo, gluten free and the perfect antidote to a boring breakfast rut. It's an easy wrap that you can take on the go!
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: breakfast burrito, healthy burrito
Servings: 1
Calories: 403 kcal
Author: Ashley Sauve
Ingredients
  • 2 large collard leaves
  • 3 pieces pastured bacon
  • 1/4 red bell pepper
  • 1/4 small red onion
  • 1 extra-large pastured egg
  • 1/3 avocado
  • 2 tablespoons organic salsa
Instructions
  1. First, wash collard leaves and pat dry with paper towel.
  2. Heat a small cast-iron or ceramic skillet over medium heat. Add

    bacon and let it cook slowly.

  3. While bacon is cooking, slice the bell peppers, onions and avocado.

  4. Once bacon is cooked through, transfer it from the pan to a small plate (you can line the plate with paper towels if you like).

  5. Leaving bacon fat in the pan, add the red pepper and onion, let cook over medium heat until soft.

  6. While the vegetables are cooking, de-stem collard leaves by cutting off the stem at the end of the leaf and carefully sliding your knife under the thick collard rib. You want the finished leaves to be an even thickness throughout so they are pliable.
  7. Once vegetables are soft, shift them to the side of the skillet and add the egg. Use a form to break the yolk and cook scrambled.
  8. To assemble: place the collard leaves one on top of the other, with the darkest part of the leaves facing down on your cutting board. Layer on the cooked vegetables, egg, avocado, bacon and salsa.
Nutrition Facts
Healthy Breakfast Burrito (Paleo, Gluten-Free)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 403 Calories from Fat 324
% Daily Value*
Fat 36g55%
Saturated Fat 10g63%
Cholesterol 47mg16%
Sodium 670mg29%
Potassium 609mg17%
Carbohydrates 10g3%
Fiber 5g21%
Sugar 2g2%
Protein 10g20%
Vitamin A 1285IU26%
Vitamin C 44.7mg54%
Iron 0.6mg3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

About the Author Ashley Sauvé of Nutritionist Eats

ash-1Ashley Sauvé is a Certified Nutritionist and Wellness Chef based in Toronto. She is the blogger behind Nutritionist Eats. Her areas of expertise include: women’s health and hormone balancing diets, eating for autoimmunity, anti-inflammatory diets, gluten-free living, elimination/hypoallergenic diets, weight loss and metabolic balance, eating for energy and immunity and ancestral nutrition.

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Comments

  1. ChihYu says

    February 5, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    Collard greens are definitely one of my favorite dark leafy greens. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful and delicious recipe !

    Reply
  2. Katja says

    February 5, 2017 at 6:14 pm

    This is my kind of breakfast, Can’t wait to try this.

    Reply
  3. Amy says

    February 5, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    It never occurred to me to use a collard greens for a breakfast burrito! Love this idea!

    Reply
  4. Jessica DeMay says

    February 5, 2017 at 5:17 pm

    What a fun breakfast! It looks so delicious!

    Reply
  5. Vanessa Woozley says

    February 5, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    I’m always looking for more breakfast inspiration, especially portable ones, this looks amazing!

    Reply
  6. Carrie Forrest says

    February 5, 2017 at 11:58 am

    Wow! Who knew breakfast could be so delicious and vibrant in color.

    Reply
  7. Becky Winkler (A Calculated Whisk) says

    February 5, 2017 at 7:56 am

    Such a brilliant idea! Cannot wait to try this.

    Reply
  8. Stacey Crawford says

    February 4, 2017 at 10:29 am

    Such a fabulous idea to use a collard green as a tortilla. Looks like a very simple but tasty breakfast idea.

    Reply
  9. Michele Spring says

    February 3, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    Oh cool, I’ve never thought about using collards as a wrap, but that’s a great idea! Looks like the perfect fast breakfast!

    Reply
  10. Emily @ Recipes to Nourish says

    February 3, 2017 at 8:49 am

    This sounds so good! LOVE the bacon in there and the collard greens for the wrap too!

    Reply
  11. Erin Carter says

    February 3, 2017 at 6:56 am

    So many of my favourite things all wrapped together. Can’t wait to try these!

    Reply
  12. Mark Whelan says

    February 1, 2017 at 7:18 am

    Those collard greens look perfect for keeping the wrap …. wrapped! I always try and use lettuce but it’s too thin and falls to pieces. I will definitely give these a go – anything with bacon in and I’m there! Great recipe.

    Reply
  13. Kari Peters says

    January 31, 2017 at 8:39 am

    I haven’t had a breakfast burrito forever, but when it’s this healthy I could definitely happily eat this every single day!

    Reply
  14. Georgina Young says

    January 30, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    I love the fact that you’re using greens as a wrap! Definitely going to give this a go <3

    Reply
  15. Revathi says

    January 29, 2017 at 7:01 am

    Wrapping up the burrito in collard leaf is such a brilliant idea. The burrito looks so colorful and yum 🙂

    Reply
  16. Platter Talk says

    January 29, 2017 at 5:51 am

    These are a great way to start out the AM in a very healthy, hearty way. Nice.

    Reply
  17. Bintu - Recipes From A Pantry says

    January 29, 2017 at 12:48 am

    Now this looks super healthy. Burritos can look greasy and be full of fat. You have nailed this recipe perfectly

    Reply
  18. Holly says

    January 28, 2017 at 12:31 pm

    Yayyy! I can finally feel good about eating bacon! Thanks for the info about the nutritional quality of grass-fed and pasture raised meats. These breakfast wraps look super yummy and I love all the veggies…and the bacon!????

    Reply
  19. Igor @ Cooking The Globe says

    January 28, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    Oh man, my wife will love these! What a great idea to wrap all this goodness into collard leaves. Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
  20. Just Jo says

    January 26, 2017 at 12:10 am

    These look beautiful – so full of nutrition to get you started on the right foot first thing in the morning. And not too different from the original, less healthy versions of these breakfast wraps!

    Reply
    • Hannah Healy says

      January 26, 2017 at 12:53 pm

      Thanks!

      Reply

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