Breakfast Sausage Cupcakes

[MsVicky]

This recipe has been a favorite of mine & my family's for quite some time...but I modified it to be WW friendly. I ran it through the Recipe Builder in e-tools to get an accurate points count. Hope you like it...

Sausage Cupcakes
POINTS value | 4
Servings | 6 @ 2 cupcakes per serving

These keep well in the refrigerator for a week. Note: They get spongy if you freeze them.

You can substitute different cheeses and/or ground turkey or bacon instead of sausage but the points per serving will also vary. You can also substitute different veggies.
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Ingredients
8 oz low-fat sausage
1/3 cup diced yellow or red onion
1/4 tsp minced garlic
1/2 tsp table salt
8 large egg(s)
4 oz low-fat cheddar or colby cheese
1/3 cup 2% reduced fat milk


Instructions

Saute breakfast sausage with diced onion, minced garlic & salt.

While that's cooking, beat eggs & milk, then add shredded cheddar cheese to mixture.

When the sausage mixture is browned, drain any remaining grease and/or drain on paper towels. Then add sausage mixture into the liquid mixture and stir to thoroughly mix.

Spray 12 muffin tins with Pam & spoon about an even amount of the mixture into each cupcake hole.

Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.

Remove to a wire rack to cool. When thoroughly cooled, store by 2's in ziplock baggies.

[Paris Madeleine]

Yummy! I make something like this as well called a quiche cup (great for on the run breakfasts) and use Morningstar Farms breakfast patties that have been thawed and crumbled.

This looks awesome, V! I am gonna try it when school starts.

[judyo53]

This is a nice reminder of these types of breakfast treats. And this could easily be converted to a Core recipe although I can't find any sausage type items, even Morningstar, that are Core foods. Will have to use 95%+ ground beef or Core veggie burgers shredded up or even cut up Canadian Bacon (I'm still taking it as being Core). I can now use regular eggs vs. egg beaters since I'll be subbing the cheese & milk to FF.

[Paris Madeleine]

Hey Judy! It looks like the Morningstar Farms sausage crumbles are CORE and could be used. I find them slightly bland but if you doctored them up with a bit of dried sage and garlic powder, they'd kick. I might use these the next time I make quiche cups because it's easier than crumbling a bunch of sausage patties up. :)

[MsVicky]

Ohhhhhhhh Judy the canadian bacon sounds like a yummy idea too...I'll have to try that alternative!

[Hailey]

MMMMMMMMMMM These sound very interesting for DH on the go breakfast!!! Has anyone tried them?? :wave:

[kimjomom]

bumping up...this is a delicious and easy recipe and kid friendly!!!

[plcm111195]

I made a half batch of these today using Egg beaters and a sweet apple maple chicken breakfast sausage. I left out the onion, garlic and salt.

I really liked them. DH thinks he would like them with different sausage. He doesn't like the sweet maple sausage. I'll be making these again soon! Thanks!

[ricosha]

Any idea how much it alters the points if you use egg beaters and morningstar farms veggie sausage??

[PetPartner]

Love this idea. I think I am going to make these with the Hormel Turkey Pepperoni which is low-fat, very ungreasy, too. Grandkids might just like this!

[BarbA]

I am making a batch of blueberry oatmeal muffins for this weeks breakfast, but this will be on my agenda to make a batch come mid week!

I will make the following substitutions
8 oz low-fat smoked sausage
1/2 cup onion, diced, red or white
1/2 cup red and green bell pepper, diced
1/2 tsp table salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 cups Egg Beaters® 99% egg substitute (8 large eggs equivalent)
4 oz lowfat cheddar cheese
1/3 cup 1% low-fat milk
2.5 Points for 2 muffins.
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 127 Calories; 2g Fat (18.9% calories from fat); 17g Protein; 7g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 21mg Cholesterol; 824mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 2 Lean Meat; 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 0 Fat.

[BiggestLoser]

I saw a recipe similar to these on here or maybe another site - but you lined each muffin tin with the cheap canned biscuits to make a crust - and adds only one point each.