The Best Vegan Breakfast Burrito
on Jan 01, 2019, Updated May 17, 2024
The best Vegan Breakfast Burrito recipe made with scrambled tofu and homemade crispy potato hash. Meal prep and fill your freezer with a batch of these delicious burritos!
These incredibly delicious vegan breakfast burritos are made with tofu cooked in homemade enchilada creamy cashew sauce (that tastes like vegan queso.)
Paired with a crispy potato hash, this recipe is packed full of so much flavor! I cannot express how incredible this recipe is, but just read the comments below and they speak for themselves!
One of my most popular vegan recipes is my Simple Vegan Breakfast Hash.
Several of you commented how hard it was to find vegan breakfast options that weren’t smoothies or oatmeal.
While I love smoothies and oatmeal, everybody deserves to have some savory breakfast deliciousness in their lives!
Enter the best vegan breakfast burritos ever: freezer friendly, packed full of huge flavor, and even gluten free if you use gluten free tortillas.
A good breakfast burrito is packed full of flavor and easily freezable, and this vegan breakfast burrito does not disappoint.These are so great for busy mornings!
How to make this vegan breakfast burrito
There are only two components of this burrito: the scrambled tofu and the vegan breakfast hash. The homemade sauce for the tofu is so creamy and flavorful that you don’t even need condiments.
You can your burrito in salsa if you want, but I just eat mine plain! Even my husband who dips about everything in sour cream or salsa ate these vegan burritos as is.
This sauce is what we are cooking the tofu in. All you’ll need is: enchilada sauce, roasted cashews, salsa, and nutritional yeast. Mix it all up in your high speed blender until smooth.
Do you need to soak the cashews first?
No. Since they are roasted instead of raw, they will blend smoothly. Since the cashews are roasted instead of raw, you can just blend them right up!
It basically tastes like a velveety smooth vegan queso dip.
In fact, I’m going to have to create a vegan queso dip based off of this sauce, because the flavor is just CRAZY good.
I use a similar sauce in my vegan quesadillas and it is amazing!
Once you scramble the tofu, add the sauce and cook for around 10-15 minutes, or until it’s a little less mushy. The tofu will look a little like a buffalo dip texture almost.
That sounds like a weird way to describe it, but that is what it looks like to me!
Once your hash and tofu are done cooking, chop up some fresh cilantro and you are ready to start assembling your burritos!
On each tortilla, add a heaping of tofu, and follow it up with fresh cilantro. Top with a big scoop of crispy amazing hash, roll it up, and you’re ready to eat!
I’m one of those people who needs to have texture when I’m eating. The tofu is soft in this recipe, so the crunch of the roasted potatoes adds extra chewiness and texture.
The textures play off each other so well and it ends up being the perfect bite!
I mean just look at all that roasted goodness! Those crispy edges on the hash is where all that crazy flavor comes from. Slow roasted potatoes are the best kind of potatoes!
I can’t lie, I am absolutely drooling over my keyboard right now. I had one of these for breakfast to make sure that they froze well (anything in the name of recipe testing) and I am already craving another one!
This vegan breakfast burrito is so full of protein that I was full for hours after just one. These are perfect for a protein packed breakfast that you can prep ahead and freeze for busy mornings.
I really can’t do the flavor justice by my words.
It has SO much flavor that it is just insane.
I seriously could eat these every morning and never get sick of them!
Reviews on these vegan breakfast burritos
Here are just some of the comments I have gotten so far. If you try it, be sure to leave me a comment on the post!
Lynz: “DUDE. I just tried these the other day and oh my word let me just say that I will be reusing this recipe over and over because I don’t think I will ever get tired of these! Thanks so much!”
Becky: “You are right! These are the best breakfast burritos!The hash and the sauce were both yummy on their own and I was afraid I would taste so much of them there would not be enough to put together. But – assembled- they are simply heavenly!!
Jaclyn: “Wow!!! These were AMAZING! It takes time to roast the potatoes then cook the tofu mixture but sooooo worth it and the bonus is, I have two burritos that were leftover and now in the freezer for a quick weekday breakfast!
This recipe makes 8 very large burritos.
We had some for dinner after I tested this recipe, and I froze the remainder of them for easy breakfasts.
Just wrap the prepared burritos in tin foil, and place in a ziploc bag in the freezer.
I fit about 4 burritos per gallon sized ziploc bag.
I heated mine up for around 4 minutes in the microwave. Depending on your microwave, it should heat in around 2-4 minutes.
The verdict? Just as good the next day from frozen.
These are literally the best breakfast burritos I have ever eaten!
That is really saying something, as I am a former breakfast burrito addict.
For awhile last year, I was addicted to a frozen breakfast burrito from the store that was also vegan.
The difference? I had to absolutely drown it in hot sauce or I didn’t care for the flavor plain. These homemade vegan breakfast burritos NEED NO HELP. They are perfect as is!
Are you making this recipe? I want to see! Don’t forget to tag me on instagram @buildyourbite and hashtag #buildyourbite so I can see your recipe creations!
The Best Vegan Breakfast Burrito
Ingredients
- 1 batch of Simple Vegan Breakfast Hash
- 14 oz extra firm tofu
- 8 oz enchilada sauce
- 1 cup roasted salted cashews
- 1/2 cup medium spicy chunky salsa
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 8 large tortillas**
- chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Make one batch of according to the instructions
- In a high speed blender, blend together enchilada sauce, cashews, salsa, and nutritional yeast until completely smooth
- Drain tofu and pat dry
- Add tofu to a large skillet and use a potato masher to scramble it until it resembles egg like texture
- Heat tofu to medium high and add the the sauce from the blender, lime juice, and salt
- Cook tofu for 10 – 15 minutes, or until tofu starts to become a little less soft
- Assemble burritos using the tofu, chopped cilantro, and then a scoop of vegan breakfast hash
- Serve immediately or freeze for later
- To freeze the burritos, wrap each individual one in foil, then place in an airtight ziploc bag in the freezer. To reheat, remove from foil and place on a microwave safe plate. Heat until hot throughout (2 – 3 minutes)
On my quest to find a recipe for a great breakfast burrito that doesnโt try too hard to โfeelโ healthy, this one is the clear winner. The creamy cashew sauce and tofu give them an indulgent mouth feel and taste.
Suggestions:
If you use the small, not tiny, whole wheat tortillas, you will get twenty burritosโ just the right size for my breakfast with a piece of fruit.
I blend a bundle of cilantro, stems and all, with a splash of vegetable broth (using the โdirtyโ un-rinsed blender from the cashew red sauce) to make a green sofrito- I use a teaspoon to make a green stripe within the un-rolled burrito.
I add whatever โextraโ vegetables I have from my fridge or garden to the onion fry for the hash to amp up the texture and veggie contentโ most recently bell peppers and sweet potato or beet greens.
Wonderful recipeโ stores well in the freezer wrapped individually in foil and put in the ziplock bags the burrito wrappers are sold in. I move a bag from freezer or fridge, and the 6-7 refrigerated burritos warm up easily at 1 minute each.
Bravo!
I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe Patricia, and your additions sound delicious!
Work intensive but so yummy!
Made these this morning for breakfast. Very good. Instead of making these and freezing them, I just left the filling in the fridge and I’ll make them the next few mornings. I could see adding a smattering of black beans. My husband thought they were a tad sweet (probably from the cashews) so he wants me to add a little more heat next time. Yum!
Lordy, this was so good! I am not vegan but a recent trip with one inspired me to try this. The only thing I did differently was add soy chorizo. My mind (& my husbands) is blown! The queso alone was so delicious but all together it was a flavor explosion!
I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe!!
I donโt review recipes a lot, but feel this one deserves it. I come back to this over and over again. They really are SO good!! I make them in big batches and then freeze them wrapped up individually, as itโs summer now Iโve taken to bringing them camping and putting them over the fire for a healthy, delicious, filling, EASY camping breakfast. My husband requests them and they just are so yummy!
This means so much! I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe ๐ It’s one of my favorite vegan recipes!
Question. Can I roast my raw cashews?
Iโm thinking about making these ahead of time and taking them on a flight for a protein packed breakfast on the go. I donโt plan to eat them right away, and wont be able to microwave them. Do you think theyโd work best frozen and then just left to defrost for a few hours? Or should I make them and leave them in the fridge instead? Thanks! xx
Hi, does the sauce keep in the fridge? And for how long?
I’m not vegan yet plan to make it for son so did a test run for flavor…so good! Used my canned salsa, so nice kick overall. Definitely adding to my list to make again! Excellent!
Hands down the BEST breakfast burrito! You were right! Often I find vegan breakfast burritos flavorless, too mushy, or dry. I was also nervous about microwaving but it was just as good as fresh!
If I have a minute to spare I like to heat up a skillet and sear the seam of the tortilla after microwaving!
Fantastic recipe that I plan to come back to many times! Thank you for sharing!
So glad you enjoyed the recipe Sarah!