Smash Sausage Breakfast Tacos
Switch up your regular breakfast tacos with these lovely, super speedy smash sausage breakfast tacos. Just press sausage meat onto a tortilla, pan-fry and top with creamy smashed avocado and feta. A drizzle of chili oil finishes things off perfectly. Great for feeding a crowd!
These are even EASIER than other smash taco recipes I’ve shared before because you can skip the first step and just go straight to pressing your topping onto your taco. Because sausages are already seasoned, you don’t need to add other mix-ins.
I’m pairing them with a lovely fresh avocado and feta smash – this stuff is GOOD. It’s super quick and easy and adds a lovely creamy element to the crispy sausage topping.
While I’ve called these breakfast tacos, they can absolutely be enjoyed at any time of the day. They’re also brilliant if you’re hosting brunch or cooking for a crowd. The elements can be prepared in advance and then cooked when you’re ready – and you can even cook them on an outdoor grill, barbecue or Blackstone to make things SUPER quick.
Love a good taco? Try these smash satay chicken tacos, smash dumpling tacos, smash banh mi tacos or smash cheeseburger tacos next.
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Sausages. Use your favorite here – any will do. You could also use sausage meat and skip the step of taking the skin off, for ease.
- Avocado. You want to make sure your avocado is nice and ripe, for the best flavor and to make the mashing easier.
- Feta. I love adding this to the avocado to bulk it out and give it an extra creamy, umami flavor. You could skip it if you like.
- Tortillas. Use regular flour or corn tortillas, either work. You could even use large tortillas and make burritos.
How To Make Them
Deskin your sausages, then press them onto your tortillas. Spread them out into a thin even layer, going all the way to the edges. Mash your avocado and feta into a lovely chunky consistency.
Cook the sausage tacos for a few minutes until crispy, then remove from the pan and load on your toppings.
Smash Breakfast Tacos FAQs
What else could I add to the tacos?You can play around with the toppings, based on what you like and what you have on hand. Scrambled eggs or fried eggs are great additions, as is a drizzle of basil pesto, sundried tomato pesto, zhoug sauce, ginger scallion sauce or a loaded dipping oil (this festive dipping oil would be lovely around the holiday season).
My meat isn’t sticking to the tortilla, what am I doing wrong?There are a couple of reasons this may be happening – you want to really press down on the tortilla in the pan when you add it – this will help to ‘seal’ it to the tortilla and really smash it in. You also want to make sure your pan is nice and hot. But if the meat doesn’t stick it’s not the end of the world – they’ll still taste wonderful.
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Switch up your regular breakfast tacos with these lovely, super speedy smash sausage breakfast tacos. Just press sausage meat onto a tortilla, pan-fry and top with creamy smashed avocado and feta. A drizzle of chili oil finishes things off perfectly. Great for feeding a crowd! Prep Time 10 minsCook Time 15 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Servings: 4 servings
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method Nutrition Notes
Ingredients
- 1 large ripe avocado
- 4 oz feta, (100g)
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Black pepper
- 6 large sausages
- 12 mini tortillas
- 2 scallions, (spring onions), finely sliced
- Chili oil, to serve
Method
- Make the avocado feta smash.Halve the avocado, remove the seed, then scoop the flesh out into a bowl. Crumble in the feta, then add the lime juice, ½ teaspoon of salt and a good grind of black pepper. Use the back of a fork to mash it into a rough 'smash'. Taste, then season with a little more lime juice if you like, and possibly more salt (this will depend on how salty your feta is). You can keep your smash as chunky as you like, or work it further so it's smoother, it's up to you.
- Top your tacos.Deskin your sausages by cutting through the skin and down the sausage, then peeling the skin off. You'll use half a sausage per taco. Lay a mini tortilla on your work surface, then place the half sausage on top. Use the back of a spoon to press it out into a thin, even layer on your taco. Repeat with the remaining tortillas and sausages.
- Cook the tacos. Drizzle a little olive oil into a large pan and set over high heat. Once hot, set a topped taco, sausage side down, into the pan and press down firmly to 'smash' it into the pan. I like to use a flat spatula or fish slice for this. Cook for four minutes, then flip to crisp up the other side of the taco for another 30 seconds. Remove and repeat with the remaining tacos. You should be able to cook a few tacos at once, depending on the size of your pan.
- Top the tacos and serve. Divide the feta and avocado smash between the cooked tacos, then top with a good drizzle of chili oil. Finish by scattering over the sliced scallions, then serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 3tacosCalories: 641kcal
Carbohydrates: 40g
Protein: 23g
Fat: 44.2g
Saturated Fat: 16.1g
Polyunsaturated Fat: 25g
Cholesterol: 98.3mg
Sodium: 1017.4mg
Fiber: 7.6g
Sugar: 2g
