Muffin Pan Breakfast Sandwiches
Baked egg rounds in a muffin tin, built into sandwiches at the car-camp table.
- calories
- 520
- weight
- 7 oz
- cal / oz
- 74
- protein
- 24 g
- serves
- 6, scales
- prep
- 10 min
- cook
- 15 min
- total time
- 25 min
- water
- none
- cost
- $$
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Breakfast
- Dutch oven
- Campfire coals
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Real dishes
- Grab and go
- Needs a cooler
- Basic
Ingredients
| English muffins or small bagels | 6 | split at home so you are not sawing bread in the dirt |
|---|---|---|
| Eggs | 6 | |
| Olive oil | 1 tbsp | for greasing the cups |
| Salt and pepper | to taste | |
| Cooked bacon or breakfast sausage | 6 oz | cook it at home and reheat, or use precooked |
| Sliced cheese | 6 slices | |
| Chopped vegetables | 1 cup | bell pepper, green onion, red onion, tomato, cilantro |
| Avocado | 1 | |
| Hot sauce or ketchup | to taste |
Method
- Build a bed of coals or get the fire down to a steady low burn. Full flames will scorch the eggs before they set.
- Oil each cup of a 6-cup muffin tin. Crack one egg into each and season.
- For a set yolk, pierce it with a fork and stir once. Leave it alone for a round yolk that stays soft.
- Set the tin inside a Dutch oven with the lid on, or on a grate over coals with foil over the top. Bake 12 to 15 minutes until the whites are firm and no longer clear.
- While the eggs bake, warm the meat and toast the split muffins on the grate.
- Run a knife around each egg and pop it out. Stack egg, meat, cheese, veg, and avocado on a muffin. The egg is hot enough to soften the cheese if you build fast.
This is a car-camp recipe because it needs a cooler, real eggs, and a tin. The point of the muffin pan is geometry: eggs baked in a cup come out as a disc that fits bread, so nothing hangs off the edge and nothing slides out on the first bite. It also cooks six at once without you standing over a skillet flipping one egg at a time.
The heat is the part that goes wrong. Coals, not flames, and a lid or foil over the top so the eggs cook from all sides instead of browning on the bottom. Every ingredient here is a topping bar, so lay it out and let people build their own. No dietary tags on this one: eggs, cheese, meat, and wheat muffins rule out all five.
Packing
Eggs travel in a rigid carton or cracked into a wide-mouth bottle at home, six per pint. Chop the vegetables at home and bag them. Meat and cheese ride in the cooler; muffins go on top of the pack so they do not compress.
Variations
- Cracked-and-bottled eggs pour straight into the cups and skip the shell risk entirely.
- Skip the meat and the tag list changes: with eggs and cheese still in, it is vegetarian only.
- No muffin tin? Fry the eggs in a skillet and cut them to shape with the rim of a cup.
https://www.bowlofdelicious.com/muffin-pan-breakfast-sandwiches-aka-how-to-feed-a-hoard-of-hungry-teenagers-a-healthy-real-food-breakfast