High-Protein Breakfast Quesadilla

This High-Protein Breakfast Quesadilla, with fluffy scrambled eggs, lean breakfast sausage, and cheese, over 30 grams of protein per serving!

Ingredients:

1.25 ounces cooked chicken breakfast sausage, if frozen thawed (2 links), chopped
1 large egg
2 Tbsp egg whites
3 Tbsp part-skim cottage cheese
2 Tbsp chopped scallions
Pinch kosker salt
Black pepper, to taste
1 ounce part-skim shredded cheddar
7-inch low carb tortillas
Guacamole, optional for serving

Instructions:

Add the sausage to a small non-stick skillet and cook over medium heat until the sausage is browned and crispy on the edges. When the sausage is cooked, remove it from the skillet and set aside.

While the sausage is cooking, crack the eggs into a bowl and season with salt and black pepper, to taste. Add the cottage cheese and scallions and whisk the eggs.

Spray the skillet and add the eggs to the skillet and cook them over medium heat, folding them as the eggs set until the moisture is gone, 2 to 3 minutes, then remove from the heat.

Heat a clean large skillet or griddle over medium-low heat and apply avocado oil, add the tortilla.

Place half of the cheese on the bottom half or the tortilla, spreading it out to cover half of the tortilla. Top with the egg, sausage and remaining cheese and cook until the bottom is browned and crispy about 2 to 3 minutes, then fold the tortilla closed and flip, cook until the cheese on the inside is melted.

Slice the quesadilla into three pieces, then serve.

Enjoy!

Nutrition:

Nutrition inforation is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Homolka, G. (2025, January 20). Breakfast quesadilla. Skinnytaste. https://www.skinnytaste.com/breakfast-quesadilla/