Mexican Breakfast Pasta

Leftover pasta turns into something incredible with veggies, eggs, and black beans to make this amazing Mexican Breakfast Pasta

Leftover pasta + veggies, topped with an egg + cheese = brunch perfection. Inexpensive, healthy, filling, wonderful perfection.

Loving your leftovers can be real, friends. And here it is in all its glory…

This Mexican Breakfast Pasta is a great weekend brunch recipe. It has a nice balance of protein to healthy carbohydrates with lots of veggies to boot.

You know me & my veggies and how I love them so. Well, pasta is the perfect foundation for a veggie-ful meal.

Breakfast pasta might sound like a strange concept but it’s similar to eating pizza for breakfast or anything else savory in the morning. You can also eat this for dinner to have breakfast for dinner {one of my faves}.

It’s a fantabulous way to use leftover pasta which is the jam because leftovers rock. Plus, there are one million veggies in here, and veggies complete me. So this is basically like the best meal ever.

Plus, a serving of this dish is huuuuuuuge without tons of nonsense. But if you want a smaller serving, just add an extra egg to the skillet and make this to serve three instead of two.

Have you ever tried using leftover pasta?

Honestly, it’s probably my favorite way to eat pasta {unless it’s in a soup, of course}. Something about the texture being slightly chewy but then a little crunchy {when stir-fried and/or baked}. I don’t know how to accurately describe it but what I do know is that it’s good!

And then to top it all off, this dish is cooked in one pan. Obviously that is a huge bonus to any recipe for me because I hate washing lots of dishes like simple things.

If you don’t have leftover pasta, just cook pasta, strain, and refrigerate while you chop all the veggies and shred the cheese.

You can double this recipe for a bigger crowd, just make sure you use a larger and/or deeper pan or skillet. I used a 10-inch non-stick skillet and it was perfect for two servings. This serving size was pretty huge, so you can always add another egg and serve three.

You’ll also want an oven safe skillet since this will have a run in the oven to cook the eggs.

Last but not least, my morning became exponentially better when I realized the leftovers {the Mexican Breakfast Pasta} of leftovers {pasta} were delish! Bam!

Mexican Breakfast Pasta

Leftover pasta turns into something incredible with veggies, eggs, and black beans to make this amazing Mexican Breakfast Pasta

Print Rate

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Servings: 2

Author: Meme

Ingredients

• 2 tsp olive oil divided
• 1 large onion diced {about 2 cups}
• 3 medium bell peppers diced {about 4 cups}
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• 1 small jalapeño minced {about 1-2 TBSP}
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 ounces pasta cooked
• 1 cup black beans
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup cheese shredded (about 2 ounces)

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375*F.
• Heat 1 teaspoon oil in an oven safe, non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add diced onions and bell peppers. Sauté for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add in garlic, jalapeño, salt, and remaining teaspoon of olive oil. Stir well.
• Add in cooked pasta and beans, and stir well to incorporate. Make two indentations into the pasta-veggie mixture and crack eggs in them. Top everything with grated cheese.
• Put in the preheated oven and bake until eggs are cooked to your liking, about 15-20 minutes {I like my eggs completely hard so I baked for 18 minutes}.

Notes

*Pasta was weighed before cooking. If you don't have cooked pasta, cook 2 ounces pasta according to package directions, strain, and refrigerate while chopping and sautéing veggies.

*The serving sizes are really big, so you can add another egg in the pasta-veggie mixture and make this to serve three instead of two.

What to Use in This Recipe

Knife

Cutting Board

Skillet

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Meme