Spinach Egg Muffins

Healthy Breakfast Egg Muffins with Spinach are the best make-ahead, high-protein breakfast that'll keep you full for hours. They are a delicious, healthy idea for a morning meal that's portable.

About Spinach Egg Muffins

Breakfast egg muffins are my go-to breakfast to keep in the fridge or freezer for a high-protein, vegetable-packed, easy meal.

These egg muffins keep you full for hours and help power you through the morning without the distraction of a hungry tummy.

Another absolutely wonderful thing about these is the fact that they make your life so easy in the morning because you can make a big batch to have breakfasts prepared for a whole week. Plus, they keep well in the fridge as well as the freezer.

When you're ready to eat them, enjoy them cold or microwave for about 30-60 seconds — a little more if they're frozen — and enjoy!

Egg muffins are basically just eggs, veggies, and cheese baked into a muffin form. They are packed with protein and each serving has over 1 cup of veggies, so they are a fabulous way to start your day.

You can't beat them for a tasty breakfast! Also, a big bonus is that you get a delicious and portable breakfast option that's great for meal prepping when you bake them into muffins.

Ingredients

Oil: You need oil to sauté the veggies. You can use any oil you have. I typically use olive oil or avocado oil. Butter is another option.

Veggies: The veggies you sauté before adding spinach are onions, bell peppers, carrots, and mushrooms. Specifically, you can use any type of onion and any color bell peppers. Also, both white button mushrooms and portabella mushrooms are great. Feel free to play around with the veggies you add depending on what you have and what you like. You'll want about 5 cups chopped veggies to sauté.

Spices: Oregano, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, cayenne pepper, and salt are the spices in this recipe. However, you can change up the amounts or types of spices used in your spinach egg muffins.

Spinach: Spinach is the main veggie in here, and I think it's easiest and more budget-friendly to use frozen. But feel free to use fresh or frozen chopped veggies (or a combination) for all of the veggies in this recipe.

A note on organic veggies: It's more important to increase the number of vegetables (and fruit) you eat as opposed to focusing on whether or not they are organic. There is extensive research on the safety of conventional and organic produce, and the research shows that the most beneficial thing for your health is to eat more veggies & fruits. For more info, check out this post on conventional and organic produce.

Cottage Cheese: Buy whatever cottage cheese you prefer. I typically go with the kind that has the least amount of ingredients, and I often buy the full-fat cottage cheese as I do not like the taste of reduced-fat or fat-free. I do not recommend using fat-free cottage cheese in this recipe.

Eggs: Eggs are full of vitamins, and both the white and yolk are nutritious. Large grade A eggs are used for testing this spinach egg muffin recipe. I typically buy store-bought, white eggs. However, you can use whatever you prefer.

Also, the number of eggs doesn't need to be exact. You can also use 6 extra-large or 8 medium eggs.

If you have been advised to avoid eggs by your health care provider, an egg substitute will work in place of the eggs. Use enough for about 7 to 8 eggs.

Cheese: Mozzarella and cheddar are the two kinds of cheese I like to use in this recipe. Additionally, parmesan can also be added for extra flavor.

Cost of Recipe

• oil 1 tablespoon: $0.24
• onion 1 medium: $0.50
• bell pepper 1 medium: $0.98
• carrots 4 medium: $0.80
• mushrooms 6 ounces: $1.49
• oregano 1 teaspoon: $0.08
• garlic powder ½ teaspoon: $0.02
• red pepper flakes ¼ teaspoon: $0.01
• cayenne pepper ¼ teaspoon: $0.02
• spinach 10 ounces: $1.99
• cottage cheese 2 cups: $2.49
• eggs 7 large: $1.61
• cheese 5 ounces: $2.49

TOTAL COST: $12.72 or $1.59/serving (Based on San Diego grocery stores 2021)

Note that this is not the recipe; it's simply to show the cost breakdown of ingredients. Be sure to scroll down to the full recipe to see the specific ingredients and directions.

How to Make Egg Muffins with Spinach

Recipe Tips

Variations

Ingredient Options

Veggies: Feel free to use whatever veggies you like and have in your kitchen. I typically use onions, bell peppers, carrots, mushrooms, and spinach. In total, you want about 5 cups of diced veggies to sauté.

Spinach: Both fresh and frozen spinach with work. While frozen is nice because it's already chopped and typically less expensive, fresh spinach also works. Be sure to cook until all the liquid from the spinach has been absorbed.

Alternative Prep & Cooking

These are baked into egg muffins making them more portable. However, you can also bake them in a 13x9 baking dish... similar to how I make my baked protein pancakes - my other all-time favorite breakfast.

How to Make Allergy Friendly

These spinach egg muffins are already gluten-free, soy-free, and nut-free. Since they are egg muffins, you can't really make them egg-free.

Therefore, seeing as dairy-free cottage cheese options are not guaranteed to work, I don't recommend making these egg muffins dairy-free.

For some high protein, dairy-free, egg-free breakfast alternatives, try a Berry Green Dream Smoothie or Mushroom and Sausage Hash.

How to Fix a Mistake

These spinach egg muffins are incredibly forgiving. Which means you don't have to worry too much about making a mistake.

Don't have enough eggs or cheese: If you don't have enough eggs, add a little more cottage cheese or shredded cheese. If you don't have a lot of cottage cheese, add another egg and some shredded cheese. The amount of shredded cheese isn't important to make up for.

Make Ahead Ideas

These are great to make ahead! Plus, you can cook and refrigerate or freeze to enjoy later.

To make life easier when you are cooking, chop the veggies in advance or use pre-chopped veggies (fresh or frozen).

Storage Suggestions

Keep these in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days and in the freezer for up to 6 weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Nutrition Benefits

These egg muffins are high in protein and have some fiber thanks to the veggies. Since it's not as easy to get veggies at breakfast, especially in portable breakfast options, these egg muffins come through to get you extra nutrients.

What to Serve with Breakfast Egg Muffins

Add a serving or two of carbohydrates to give you a little more staying power with these egg muffins. When paired with avocado toast, a bowl of oatmeal, roasted potatoes, hash browns, cooked quinoa, or whole-grain toast, this will keep you full for hours.

Final thoughts:

There's a reason this is one of my most popular recipes; the egg muffins are delicious, filling, and a great way to get veggies & protein in first thing in the morning. So take a little time to prepare these filling breakfast egg muffins and have breakfast for the week.

MORE HIGH PROTEIN BREAKFAST RECIPES YOU'LL LOVE:

• Protein Pancakes
• Breakfast Tostadas
• Mushroom and Sausage Hash
• Recovery Smoothie
• Breakfast Enchiladas

Meme

This post was originally published on September 25, 2014. Text, recipe, and photos have been updated.

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