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Breakfast Egg Muffins with Bacon and Spinach: These muffins make a great breakfast, lunch, or a snack to pack up for work, school, or a picnic! Just use a regular muffin pan for this recipe!
I love that these breakfast egg muffins are very easy to make, and all the ingredients in them constitute, basically, a classic breakfast. These muffins have protein (eggs), meat (bacon), vegetables (spinach), and cheese. What not to like? These will keep you full for a long time!
And, if you want meatless egg muffins - I have this delicious recipe for breakfast egg muffins with mushrooms and spinach.
If you have a company staying at your house - these egg muffins are a great way to treat your guests to a fast, easy, and very delicious breakfast! Also, you can pack these muffins as a to-go breakfast, lunch, or snack to bring to work or school.
They are also gluten free!
Ingredients you'll need for breakfast egg muffins:
- eggs
- milk
- salt
- Cheddar cheese, shredded
- Parmesan cheese, shredded
- spinach
- bacon
How to make breakfast egg muffins (step-by-step photos):
In a large bowl, beat eggs until smooth. Add milk, salt, Cheddar cheese and mix:
Stir in spinach:
Add cooked bacon into the egg mixture. Bacon should be precooked, drained of all the fat and chopped:
Use a regular 12-cup muffin pan. Spray the muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray. Ladle the egg mixture into greased muffin cups ¾ full.
Top with shredded Parmesan cheese:
Oven should be preheated to 350 degrees. Bake the egg muffins for 25 minutes, then let them cool for 30 minutes before removing from the pan.
Other savory breakfast recipes
- Another easy breakfast to bake in the oven is Hash Brown, Broccoli, Sausage and Egg Breakfast Casserole.
- For a Southwestern twist, try this Southwestern Breakfast Casserole with sausage, red bell pepper, black beans, Cheddar and Mozzarella cheeses.
Breakfast Egg Muffins with Bacon and Spinach
Ingredients
- 6 large eggs
- ¼ cup milk
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups cheddar cheese shredded
- 1 cup spinach cooked and drained (about 8 oz fresh spinach)
- 6 slices bacon cooked, drained of fat, and chopped
- ½ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a regular 12-cup muffin pan. Spray the muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, beat eggs until smooth. Add milk, salt, Cheddar cheese and mix. Stir spinach, cooked bacon into the egg mixture. Ladle the egg mixture into greased muffin cups ¾ full.
- Top each muffin cup with shredded Parmesan cheese.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven, let the muffins cool for 30 minutes before removing them from the pan.
Nutrition
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I’m only get 10 muffins and have added an extra egg?
Did you fill the muffin cups 3/4 full? If you fill up the muffin cups 3/4 full (not to the brim) - then you'll get 12 muffins.
Delicious egg muffins. Made them yesterday and froze them for the week ahead.
These look so good! Want to make them this weekend!
Delicious, however, despite greasing muffin tin, I found them very difficult to remove from the pan.
Can paper cups be used or do you have another suggestion?
Use silicone muffin liners. They are a godsend for recipes like this!
I'm using diced ham with spinach and the small sweet peppers in different colors and half the cheese. I've done this before and they come out awesome. The first time I used the recipe as written and they were great. My husband uses it to eat on his way to work. Thanks for posting.
Linda, you are so welcome! I am glad you've been making and enjoying this recipe! Using diced ham with spinach and small sweet peppers sounds so good!
How do you store them ? Can they be froze ? How long do they last in the fridge.
You can freeze these. Store them refrigerated (in an air-tight container or wrapped in plastic wrap or in a plastic bag). They last 5 days if stored in the fridge.
How do you warm them up if made ahead? Making about 4 doz quichettes for baby shower (2 types). Would be great f I could make them day before.
You can definitely make these a day before. That's what I do - I make them ahead, refrigerate them, and then reheat when I need them. The best way to reheat them would be in the oven, especially if you're reheating many of them at one time.
Hi, mine came out great apart from the fact that it was all puffed up when i took it out the oven (looked stunning), then it fell flat.. what could i have done wrong? Overbeat the eggs?
I think it's normal for egg muffins to puff up after baking and then they settle back to normal size.
Can you use uncooked spinach?
Yes, I use fresh spinach in mine.
Wouldn’t fresh spinach have too much moisture? I steamed fresh spinach and used that after squeezing out moisture.
I prefer to use cooked and drained spinach.
These are very versatile muffins. Mde a batch and they were awesome.
So glad to hear that! Enjoy! 🙂
Can you leave out "most" of the cheese and still have them come out okay? I have a guest with a dairy sensitivity
In theory, you can leave all of the cheese out, and replace the volume with more spinach, for example. Leaving the cheese out won't ruin the texture - it will just affect the flavor and the volume of muffins. Maybe, add more bacon too, to add more saltiness throughout each muffin.
Can you use bacon bits/pieces instead of cooking the bacon outright?
Yes, you can. But I like to use bigger chunks of bacon, so I use cooked bacon and then chop it up.
If I make ahead for weekday breakfast, how long will they stay good in the fridge?
These will stay good in the fridge for about 5 days.
Can i refridgerate and heat in microwave? Also are the calories for 1 muffin or 2??
Yes, you can refrigerate the muffins and reheat them in microwave. The calories are for 1 muffin.
Just what I was looking for! I have a huge 'Pillow' of fresh Spinach, two dozen Organic eggs, and some 'Wright' thick bacon! I will add chopped red bell pepper, a dash of turmeric, black pepper, and top with Mozzarella, that is what I have on hand.
Next batch I will add Quinoa, sunflower seeds, etc.
Plan to top another batch with frags of Organic flax-seed corn chips. Optional: Paprika, garlic, Shallots, mushrooms, etc. Like a mini omelet but portable! Sounds so yummy! A new way to make a nutritious breakfast!
Thank You!
Wow, you have quite a plan for these breakfast egg muffins! I love all your ideas! Adding turmeric and chopped red bell pepper sounds so good! If you like quinoa, take a look at this recipe that uses quinoa, it makes a delicious breakfast: https://juliasalbum.com/quinoa-spaghetti-squash-and-bacon-fritters/
If I make ahead and freeze these, could you please tell me how to defrost and re-heat?
I've made them before - delicious) - but have served them right away. Thank you!
You can reheat these right in the oven - probably 15-20 minutes in the preheated oven at 350 F, not more.